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---+!! LHCb Core Software Meeting
---++!! Date and Location
[[INDICO:370001][2015-01-28]]%BR%
10:30 - 11:35 %BR%
CERN (2-R-030) %BR%
---++!! Attendees
Anastasia Karachaliou,
Ben Couturier,
Gerhard Raven (Vidyo),
Gloria Corti,
Illya Shapoval,
Joel Closier,
Liang Sun,
Marco Cattaneo,
Marco Clemencic (minutes),
Markus Frank,
Roel Aaji,
Sebastien Binet (Vidyo),
Vanya Belyaev

---++!! Subjects
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---+ News
   * Gaudi v26r0 released as well as the stack up to DaVinci
   * HSF Workshop next week
   * LIM
      * Requested Eigen and GTest in the externals
      * SFT working on a massive upgrade 
      * Benedikt proposed to contribute the packaging system to HSF
   * ITUM this afternoon
   * Call for summer students: to be reported to Andreas by the end of next week.
   * Joel: two build machines unreachable yesterday morning because of failed power supply
   * Marco Ca.: Tim Head would like to organize a tutorial for software carpentry

Gerhard: can we have clang builds in the nightlies?
   * Ben: we have been asking SFT
   * Marco Cl.: we could try to build our nightlies with clang on top of gcc48

Gerhard: it would be great to have the clang tools available to everybody.
   * Ben & Marco Cl.: this is unrelated to have the nightly built on clang

---+ Round Table
---++ Marco Cl.
   * Gaudi: replacement for QMTest on its way

---++ Roel
   * Hlt and Moore releases took long (CMake and ROOT problems)
   * ROOT bug reported but not top priority because we have a work around
   * Phys required a new build
   * Gerhard changes made Moore go faster (25% more throughput)

Marco Ca.: we need to check the memory usage with ROOT 6

---++ Gloria
   * Issues with the deployment of Gauss because of data packages that do not have the RPMs
   * The RPM of Geant4 was missing the InstallArea/include directory. Fixed by Marco Cl. moving it to InstallArea/include
   * Problem with AlpGen and "make -j" because of several libraries using the same source file
   * Problem with AlpGen and CMake (sources not found)
   * Has to add LCG to the lhcb-head configuration 

---++ Joel
   * Since 2 weeks we are using the new tools to build and release Dirac/LHCbDirac
   * Problem in the html files used for the dependencies of LHCbGrid
   * The database for Coverity is now available. Marco Cl. will migrate the old database.

---++ Marco Ca.
   * Updating the Computing Task document. Should be finished before the LHCb Week

---++ Markus
   * Struggling with the release of Online.
   * Need the fixes in the CMake configuration system

---++ Liang
   * Various updated to the DBs
   * Testing the migration of constants from LHCBCOND to ONLINE

---++ Vanya
   * Manages to build C++ images of all functors in Stripping
   * Need solutions for
      * actual factory calls
      * replace std::hash with something else
      * automatize the builds
   * Changed a lot in LoKi infrastructure (removed several virtual function calls)
   * Testing the C++ functors for Hlt

---++ Sebastien
   * Closed all lbpkr issues
      * handling of data packages versions
      * easily add nightly RPM repositories

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-- Main.MarcoClemencic - 2015-01-28

Topic revision: r1 - 2015-01-28 - unknown

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