LHCb Core Software Meeting
Date and Location
23-Nov-2011
10:30 - 11:30
CERN (2-R-030)
Attendees
Alex Grecu,
Ben Couturier,
Gloria Corti,
Hubert Degaudenzi,
Illya Shapoval,
Joel Closier,
Marco Cattaneo,
Marco Clemencic (minutes),
Thomas Hartmann (EVO)
Subjects
Issues from last meeting
Solved
- Test Vidyo
during Core Software Meetings
- it is possible since there is a phone bridge (+41225330322)
- a registration
is required
- Nightly build on gcc 4.6
- running
- we need the optimized version for testing
- minor changes needed to compile
- xrootd debug messages issue fixed
- LHCbNightliesConfiguration updated (Thomas)
- added scripts to automate the procedure
Pending
- Proposal for split of GaudiSvc
- DataQuality filtering by run
- Warning when calling "SetupProject Dirac"
- New version of Coverity analyzer
- ICC builds (licensing)
News
Round Table
Gloria
- gauss-dev is needed with some special configuration
- will send a list of the requirements for the related LCG nightly slot
- Rush release during the day
- Clean up of AppConfig?
- agreed to create a v3b for backward compatibility and start from scratch in the trunk (to be announced at the PAC)
Marco Cl.
- Improvements to
tag_package
: it can create tags from branches and tag projects (project.cmt)
- the twiki page must be updated
- the script to create branches is missing: the code is essentially the same as
tag_package
, but it is better to have a different name (branch_package
)
- Discussed with Marco Ca. the possibility of hiring an ISIMA student to work on a "Release Manager Workbench"
- description to be prepared
Joel
- Migration of LHCbDirac to Dirac v6
- use the next two weeks (before large MC11 production)
Hubert
- Deployed LbScripts v6r6p1 (dev)
- Philippe had a problem with the CRLs (Certificate Revocation Lists) on CERNVM
- documentation problem (he used the wrong directory): fixed (CernVM)
- Problem with Python 2.6 on SLC6 (conflicts between the system library and the distributed one)
- a solution has been proposed to be included in LCGCMT
- shell we move to Python 2.7? -> let's test it
Ben
- Testing the compilation with '-O3' on gcc 4.3 (next will be 4.6).
- Working on the gcc plugin to replace gccxml (from Stefan's code).
- Preparing XML to describe the list of known projects/packages, instead of the current hard-coded one in LbScripts.
Illya
- New distribution model of SQLite
- couple of minor changes (no need to release them yet)
- Marco Cl.: few test needed before going in production
- Marco Ca.: once we are sure that the system works, we can back-port the changed to the v6 series
Alex
- New release of Rivet
- includes the first LHCb analysis
- Preparing a new analysis
- New Pythia8: fixed the conversion to HepMC (units mismatch)
Thomas
- Problem starting the nightlies by hand in with gcc46 (wrong Python). Under investigation.
- Working to get warnings in the nightlies summary when running out of space in the on AFS.
- it should not be a problem for a while because now the
.o
and .a
files are not copied
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MarcoClemencic - 28-Nov-2011