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
    • prototyped with Gaudi
    • requires fix of LBCORE-152
• 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