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Basic Information

  • time: Thu-Fri Aug 16-17 2012, 10am-5pm CET
  • location: UGent (Belgium), campus Sterre, building S9, meeting room Aubergine (more info)
  • notes: lunch provided on Thursday by HPC-UGent

Attendees

5 attendees:

  • Stijn Deweirdt (HPC-UGent, developer)
  • Fotis Georgatos (University of Luxembourg, contributor/sysadmin)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, developer/release manager)
  • Jens Timmerman (HPC-UGent, developer)
  • Toon Willems (HPC-UGent summer intern, developer)

Agenda

presentations

note: informal presentations, no need to prepare slides

  • (Fotis) development timeline
  • (Fotis) overview of current open bug/feature requests
  • (Fotis/Cédric) experience report by Fotis and Cédric

discussions

  • (Kenneth) public bug tracker (GitHub issue tracker?)
  • (Kenneth) policy for [contributing back](Contributing back) to EasyBuild (feature branches, pull requests, code review, release manager)
  • (Fotis/Cédric) wishlist of Fotis and Cédric
  • namespace format and and recommendations by the EasyBuild team
  • configuring, library building and related potential issues
  • how to handle osdependencies gracefully
  • extension: how to describe package info & dependencies (employ CUFD?)
  • (Fotis) class naming (eb_ prefix)
  • (Fotis) can we benefit in any way from pkgsrc/ports/portage etc?

hacking

  • bug fixing
  • cleaning up work by Fotis and Cédric
  • finish work for v0.9
  • new features:
  • git-download class for RAxML (see cbench)

Meeting minutes

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