LHCb Core Software Meeting
Date and Location
25 Jun 2014
10:30 - 11:20
CERN (2-R-030)
Attendees
Ben Couturier,
Gloria Corti,
Illya Shapoval,
Joel Closier,
Liang Sun,
Marco Cattaneo,
Marco Clemencic (minutes),
Markus Frank,
Sebastien Binet (Vidyo),
Sofia Qiriazi,
Valentin Comte
Subjects
News
Round Table
Marco Cl.
- Gaudi relaese plans
- LCGCMT 69 waiting for tags of COOL and CORAL
- Wrote small script to convert text with ANSI terminal color codes to HTML (needed for clang output).
- There is a VM-based test distcc cluster we need to test.
Joel: had a problem with a VM, but it was impossible to debug because of issues on the host
Ben
- Investigating why CVMFS cache is cleaned at every reboot (problem in Online)
- New release of LbScripts in dev
- new interface to the Software Configuration Database
- simplified declaration of projects to be released (automatically picked up by special nightly scripts)
- Sofia prepared a modified version of the dashboard: https://buildlhcb.cern.ch/nightlies-release/
Marco Ca.: the new procedure should be added to the release manager instructions.
Comments about the new dashboard:
- the managers should be able to rebuild
- the rebuild should not overwrite the previous build
Joel: with the new LbScripts we also have the EOS_HOME variable set
Joel
- Restarted Jenkins activities for LHCbDirac (the knowledge was lost and it is being reconstructed)
- We now have more Puppet profiles
Marco Ca.
- Used the Service Now deployment page
- the notification scheme is not satisfactory
- the workflow it too simplistic
Liang
- Need to create some global tags for SIMCOND (for 2010). Discussing with Gloria.
- Will have to check with Illya how to proceed with Ariadne.
Gloria
- Still pending issues with Geant4 and LCGCMT 68
- Paul is preparing instructions to build and use Geant4 10
- Discussion of new production workflow (requiring development in LHCbDirac)
Sofia
- Prepared the special dashboard for the new release procedure
Markus
- New release last week... seems to work for the commissioning week
Sebastien
- Working on a lbpkr (tool to handle the LHCb RPM packages)
- normal RPM handling: list, install, remove, ...
- can self-update via RPM
- Benedikt installed go-lang in the contrib area.
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MarcoClemencic - 25 Jun 2014