LHCb Core Software Meeting
Date and Location
26-Jun-2013
10:30 - 11:10
CERN (2-R-030)
Attendees
Ben Couturier,
Gloria Corti,
Illya Shapoval,
Joel Closier,
Marco Cattaneo,
Marco Clemencic (minutes),
Markus Frank,
Stefan Lohn
Subjects
News
- ZeroMQ
- ROOT Weekly Planning Meeting starting next week (Wednesdays at 16:00)
- LHCb Analysis and Software Week, next week
- Deadline for early registration to LHCb Week in Krakow is the 30th of June
- Problems with LCG nightlies related to AFS/SLC6-Ibex
- Marco Ca.: we need to change the platform used for lhcb-patches4 (is -pedantic enabled?)
- There will be a LCGCMT 6x-rc1 as soon as gcc 4.8 is all green
- ITUM meeting
Round Table
Marco Cl.
- Improvements to the LHCb Masterclass configuration, to allow packaging for Windows
- Nightly Builds
- Dashboard
- improvements and better integration of with the new dashboard (direct uploading)
- adding monitoring data (disk space etc.) to the new dashboard
- migrate to buildlhcb.cern.ch once the required software is installed
- working on a new procedure to build releases based on the nightlies scripts
- Gaudi
- working on the merge of ATLAS patches
- Diego asked for a release with ROOT 5.34/08
- ROOT 6 migration
- preparing the nightly build slot to test the changes
- need branches of whole projects: the trunk must be clean/working
- Summer Student arriving next week to work on QMTest evolution
- Preparing the SetupProject/COMPAT hack to allow compressed CondDB with old software
Marco Ca.: it would be nice to have the possibility of removing packages from a checkout in the nightlies
Joel
- finishing setup of lxbuild119
Stefan
- working to improve LHCbPR
Marco Ca.
- Created a new project based on LHCb for stand-alone applications.
- Is it possible to exclude files from analysis? e.g. the Reflex dictionaries
To be checked (Marco Cl.).
Illya
- All commissioning tasks for Ariadne are completed.
- no need to wait for all the relations, they can be added later
- will migrate to the new instance (for production) today or tomorrow.
Ben
- LbScript v7r8 released
- new projects added
- there will be a patch before the production release
- Updates on the discussion on JIRA: feedback from Niels
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MarcoClemencic - 26-Jun-2013