SPI project meeting

Tuesday 13 Apr 2010, 15:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

32-SC-22 (Bldg 32)

Stefan Roiser (CERN)

The weekly meeting of the Software Process and Infrastructure project of the LCG/AA.

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Bertrand Bellenot

+ Actions done
- Released ROOT v5.22.00i on all officially supported platforms

+ Problems
- Cross compilation of ROOT v5.22.00i (building 32bit binaries on
 64bit OS) doesn't work on MacOSX 10.6
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Carlos Aguado Sanchez

+ Actions done:
- Getting introduced with Quattor profiles for further usage and normalisation (got access to cdb and lxadm)
- Savannah actions related to project exports, external user access, cosmetics
- In discussion with the VOBox team to allocate more computing resources to testing and development in various areas, decoupling from the production environment
- Started evaluation of required steps to redirect the PH-SFT website to drupal.
- In discussion with IT/CS to allocate a new DNS path prefix for easier routing/access to virtual machines (i.e. Drupal website)

+ Next actions:
- Enable savannah to authenticate users with CERN lightweight accounts
- Improve savannah exports for compatibility with custom entry fields

+ Problems:
- (Minor) Access to central resources is sometimes bound to personal accounts but service ones or e-groups

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Ana Gaspar

+ Actions done
- Moved coverage platform to slc5 64bit
- Installed lcov 1.8
- Sorted by name the slots on the Web Page
- Added a new row in the data base for branches coverage
- Changed the nightlies scripts (server and checkLogFiles) to add the branches coverage to the log results
- Added a new column on the web page to show the value of the branches coverage
- Working on the validation script for the nightlies schedule

+ Next actions
- Confirm the stability of the current scripts version, after adding support for branches coverage
- Finish the validation script

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Stefan Roiser

+ Actions done
- Helped on debugging problem with CORAL installation in LCG 56f. It turned out that the observed crash was due to a not removed workaround for a CORAL problem in Atlas code. No re-release was needed.
- Preparing a new release for TH people, this includes some new packages requested as well as some fixes in the installations.
- Preparation of a new gcc 4.3.2p3 version. It was found that gcc 4.3.2 has still some references to locale files in afs. Under specific circumstances (a non working or slow afs client), this can cause problems. A new installation removing these dependencies was produced for testing.
- New snapshot build of the gcc 4.5 trunk, i.e. 4.5_20100409
- Fixing a problem with gccxml and iomanip file for the latest gcc 4.5 version


 

15:00 → 15:10 News

15:10 → 15:40 Round table

15:40 → 16:00 Aob