Telcon: 2016 09 01

Participants

1. Todd Gamblin (LLNL)
2. Ben Boeckel (Kitware)
3. Peter Scheibel (LLNL)
4. Thomas Merrick (TAMU)

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. Fixed some irritating long-standing bugs

• Done:
  1. spack reindex bugs (#1265, #1320)
  2. Made spack reindex more robust (see 69b6815)
  3. Faster DB read performance: spack find now much faster (#1535)
• In progress:
  1. Finer-grained locking, based on earlier work by Massimiliano (#1562)
  2. Uninstall by hash
  3. Hash stability (#1409)
  4. lowercase architecture names, use of distro package to detect distribution (avoid things like linux-None-x86_64)
  • #1329, #1629
• last three above change spec, so be prepared.

1. Lots of other updates

• See Pulse

1. 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)