Telcon: 2016 09 01

Participants

1. Todd Gamblin (LLNL)

News

1. SC16 Tutorial preparations still underway at LLNL

• Making slides
• Updating docs
• Tutorial scheduled for Sunday, November 13, 1:30-5pm. Topics:
  • Spack usage basics, core concepts
  • Intro to packaging
  • Deploying with Spack (Module configuration, etc.)

1. Lots of documentation updates

• Docs now hosted on spack.readthedocs.io
• Thanks to Adam stewart for bringing API docs into compliance
  • no more sphinx warnings!
  • docs are much more readable.
• Elizabeth Fischer working on re-org of documentation
  • separating tutorial material from reference manual
• Expected to stay more current this way

1. Stability-related bug fixes

2. spack reindex bugs

3. Uninstall by hash

4. Hash stability

5. lowercase architecture names, use of distro package to detect distribution (avoid things like linux-None-x86_64)

6. Resume binary caching conversation

• See Update: 2016-08-18 for details on security, how we could host this.
• CERN to talk about their findings (w.r.t. what they're comfortable with)