Telcon: 2016 05 05

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Participants

1. Greg Becker (LLNL)
2. Greg Lee (LLNL)
3. Jim Galarowicz (Krell)
4. Peter Scheibel (LLNL)
5. Robert French (ORNL)
6. Matt Legendre (LLNL)
7. Mike Collette (LLNL)
8. Elizabeth Fischer (NASA)

News

1. Cray port update (Greg Becker)
2. Update from HEP hackathon (Benedikt Hegner, Jim Amundson, Patrick Gartung, Brett Viren, others?)

• How'd it go?
• High interest -- conversation pushed to next week

1. MPI packages now offer spec['mpi'].mpicc, mpicxx, mpif77, mpif90, etc. #893
2. RPM update (Peter Scheibel)

• Matt Legendre discussed use case at LLNL
• Discussion of how this code could drive other packaging systems

1. Potential Python fetching issues may show up -- we'll be working to ensure that we stay up to date with PyPI.

• https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issues/438
• Looks like they are including hashes in their filenames to get around eventual consistency issues in S3
• We actually discussed what they're doing a bit w.r.t. #579
• Greg Lee says PyPI has agreed to continue supporting the versioned urls.

1. Intel compiler installation (Greg Lee)

Lots of larger PRs of interest

1. Module customization #744 (Massimiliano Culpo)

• to be merged very soon.

1. Importable Spack module #723
2. Extendable R package 757
3. @citibeth has a number of PRs that should be merged soon (see last week)
4. Potential need for fetch dependencies #902

• Bootstrapping may be the solution rather than a new dependency type
• There are certificate issues with bootstrapping curl. Look to resolve these

1. Sure I'm forgetting some...

Bug-fix

1. Fix updates in config files : #775

WIP

1. Remove global db lock : #866

Discussion

• Discussed documentation of stacked repo features.
  • Matt Legendre will either find or create documentation
  • General reminder that we need to keep spack documentation up to date with our PRs