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Notes on the 24th EasyBuild conference call, Tuesday January 20th 2015 (3.00pm - 3.30pm CET)
Alphabetical list of attendees (5):
- Pablo Escobar (UniBas - SIB, Switzerland)
- Petar Forai (IMP/IMBA, Austria)
- Eric Gregory (JSC, Germany)
- Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
- Ward Poelmans (UGent, Belgium)
- outlook to EasyBuild v2.0 (Kenneth)
- proposal policy for easyconfig pull requests (Kenneth)
- required:
- remove/clean up code that supports deprecated behaviour
- command line option to auto-fix easyconfigs that are broken due to relying on deprecated behaviour
- Eric: mainly the missing
easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'line
- Eric: mainly the missing
- see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/wiki/Policy-for-easyconfig-pull-requests
- conf call attendees agree that it looks sane, and agree it's worth a try
- Fotis is already picking it up for this open PRs
- proposed policy can be applied to existing PRs whenever they are touched, and should be taken into account for new PRs
- additional idea by Robert Schmidt via IRC (post conf call): also include a
{category}tag
-
SBGrid (https://sbgrid.org)
- support for ready-to-use 290 'packaged' bio-informatics software packages, for a small(ish) fee
- contact them, may/should be interested in EasyBuild?
-
EasyBuild hackathon in Basel
- basically overbooked
- registered attendance by most major Swiss sites, including CSCS (home of Piz Daint)