LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

08-Aug-2012
10:30 - 10:55
CERN (2-R-030)

Attendees

Ben Couturier, Illya Shapoval, Joel Closier, Marco Clemencic (minutes), Markus Frank, Stefan Lohn, Thomas Hartmann (Vidyo)

Apologies

Gloria Corti

Subjects

News

• Next meeting: on the 12th of September.

Issues from last meeting

• Circulate a proposal for adding the license to Gaudi Marco Cl.
  • pending
• Organize the tests for the use of Frontier in production Marco Cl.
  • pending
• Upgrade Coverity installation Marco Cl.
  • troubles during the upgrade; if the latest suggestion from the support works, it should be completed by today
• Check if Frontier keeps connections open. Marco Cl.
  • pending
• Change the call to make in mkproject Ben
  • Shell we do it with a new release? Joel: there is also the request of removing the .svn directories from releases. Let's wait for Marco Ca. and re-discuss.
  • Will do it directly in the release area
• Fix the environment on lxplus when using cvmfs Ben
  • pending
• Setup SLC6 nightly builds on SFT build server Thomas
  • problems with missing libraries, working on it
  • Joel: will check today if the problem on our machine can be fixed (may be looking at the lxbuild147 template)

Round Table

Marco Cl.

• Working on CMake
  • automatic translation tool almost ready
    • it does not use CMT
    • with minor changes to requirements, can convert LHCb
    • some features are missing: application statement, python binary modules and data packages handling
  • build of LHCb completed (without python binary modules and executables)

Joel

Marco Cl.: Can we have GIT installed on lxbuild? Yes.

Ben

• Good progress on install_project replacement with RPM.
  • few difficult issues, with nightlies and bootstrap
  • we should meet to discuss the use cases before implementing the bootstrap part

Illya

• Changing the sensors to monitor SQLite instead of Oracle (will get in contact with Mario and Stefan Roiser).
• Working on the multithreading extensions of Gaudi.
• Preparing new CondDB portal (based on JQuery).

Actions

• GIT on lxbuild Joel
• Monitor CondDB SQLite installation with SLS Illya
• Check if Frontier keeps connections open. Marco Cl.
• Circulate a proposal for adding the license to Gaudi Marco Cl.
• Organize the tests for the use of Frontier in production Marco Cl.
• Fix the environment on lxplus when using cvmfs Ben

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-- MarcoClemencic - 08-Aug-2012