Conference call notes 20180523

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Notes on the 102nd EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday May 23rd 2018 (5pm - 6pm CEST)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (5):

• Shahzeb Siddiqui (Pfizer)

• Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)

• Damian Alvarez (JSC, Germany)

• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)

• Fotis Georgatos (Illumina, UK)

• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)

• Adam Huffman (Big Data Institute, University of Oxford)

• Bart Oldeman (ComputeCanada)

• Victor Cameo Ponz (CINES, France)

• Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University)

Agenda

• outlook to EasyBuild v3.6.1
• progress towards making EasyBuild compatible with Python 3.x
• Q&A

EasyBuild v3.6.1

• ETA: end of May (or earlier?)
• merged PRs for EB v3.6.1
  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/milestone/56?closed=1
  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks/milestone/48?closed=1
  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/milestone/51?closed=1
• noteworthy open PRs to go in (hopefully) soon
  • lib64 fallback in sanity check: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2477
  • auto-download detection in PythonPackage: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/1377
  • Bioconductor archive URLs: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/6311

Progress towards making EasyBuild compatible with Python 3.x

Q&A