Conference call notes 20140417

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Notes on the 10th EasyBuild conference call, Thursday Apr. 17th 2014 (3pm - 3.30pm CET)

• follow link in "Video calls" section on EasyBuild community Google+ page

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (4):

• Petar Forai (GMI, Austria)
• Fotis Georgatos (University of Luxembourg)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
• Ward Poelmans (UGent, Belgium)

Agenda

• better organize reviewing and testing of (easyconfigs) pull requests (Kenneth)

Notes

• more frequent releases of easyconfigs?
  • is of little value, EasyBuild doesn't care where easyconfigs are located (they don't need to be part of a release)
• separate pool of new easyconfigs that are not part of a release yet (or maybe not even merged yet in develop)
  • in an 'experimental' branch
  • make -—search aware of it
• make handling of pull requests easier for the release
  • list of lieutenants: Petar, Ward, Pablo, Fotis, Jens
  • requires some scripting
    • code style => make it part of unit test suite
    • test report, collects metadata, push result in PR (hub wrapper helps?)
  • guidelines for:
    • opening a PR: build works, # files, etc.
    • reviewing a PR
  • automate testing of the builds, via Jenkins
    • attention point during next hackathon?
• recursive try would be tremendously valuable
  • but will also result in lots of new easyconfigs...
  • easyconfig format v2 will help a lot, but not fully finished yet