LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

2015-03-25

Attendees

Subjects

News

• http://gitlab.cern.ch is now in production state (see IT.GitLab)
• CHEP rehearsals

Round Table

Marco Cl.

• Fixing bugs in CMake configuration and tools
• Experimenting with the C++ style checker Vera++ in Gaudi
  • Ben experimented with clang-format
• Coverity
  • started migration of Coverity database from lxbuild161 to DBOnDemand
  • will need a VM for the web interface (Joel suggested lbbuildweb)
  • once the old version of the interface is accessible again, start the uprgade
  • for the analysis we need a physical machine (license)
• Problem with the Doxygen pages (LBCORE-772) fixed
• Git clones of LHCb projects, shall we proceed?
• Nightlies
  • drop lhcb-root5? OK
  • discussion with IT to use EOS to store builds artifacts, rpms and tarfiles

Marco Ca.: what's the status of LoKi caches? Some changes required from Vanya (predictable number/name of output .cpp files). If not ready by the end of CHEP, Marco Cl. will do it.

Joel

• We need to retire the SLC5 machines and a few SLC6 machines.
  • one is the Coverity machine
  • issue with connecting to SLC5 VM for the nightly builds
  • lxbuild119 will stay until the end 2015
• Discussion with SFT to have middleware libraries for gcc49

At LIM it was discussed a possible approach to provide grid middleware builds to the experiment. A proposal will be circulated.

Marco Cl.

• In the SFT group meeting there was a presentation about AIDA, mentioning GaudiHive and contributions from LAL.
• Beat would like to have the latest CondDBUI version.

Gloria

• What's the status of CLHEP 2?
  • Marco Cl.: at the LIM it was mentioned that RELAX does not build (Pere investigating, Marco Cl. would like to have a look)

Markus

• Could not find a recent build of cx_oracle in cvmfs (probably looking in the wrong place).
  • Ben found the recent one

Ben

• Trying to compile Geant4 10
• We need to finalize the new deployment procedure.

Liang

• Patched catalog files in LHCBCOND to use alignments from the ONLINE partitions. Deploying it.

-- MarcoClemencic - 2015-03-25