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Notes on the 219th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday 29 March 2023 (08:00 UTC)
List of attendees (XXX):
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Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
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Simon Branford (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)
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Alex Domingo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
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Pedro Fernandez (HPCNow!)
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Jasper Grimm (University of York, UK)
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Kurt Lust (UAntwerpen, Belgium + LUMI User Support Team)
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Sam Moors (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
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Sebastien Moretti (SIB, Switzerland)
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Abhishek Mukherjee (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)
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Mikael Öhman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
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Bart Oldeman (Digital Research Alliance of Canada)
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Jurij Pečar (EMBL, Germany)
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Åke Sandgren (Umeå University, Sweden)
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Jörg Saßmannshausen (Imperial College London, UK)
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Lars Viklund (Umeå University, Sweden)
- overview of recent developments
- Q&A
- release timeline
- latest release: EasyBuild v4.7.1 (20 Mar 2023)
- ETA next release (EasyBuild v4.7.2?): mid April 2023
- recent changes
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docs
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- framework
- easyblocks
- easyconfigs
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docs
- work in progress
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docs
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framework
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reported bugs / bug fixes
- Python packages are being installed to
local/lib/python*/dist-packages
due to tweaks tosysconfig.py
in OS (issue #4128) - fix typo in condition guarding installation of GitHub token in CI workflow to run unit tests (PR #4216)
- to fix tests that require GitHub token are always skipped in CI due to silly typo in GitHub Actions workflow (issue #4214)
- work-in-progress because using
$GITHUB_TOKEN
that is provided by default doesn't seem to be working...
- fix
--check-github
as gist url now includes username (PR #4231, fixes issue #4230)
- Python packages are being installed to
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enhancements
- fixes/enhancements w.r.t. checksums (PR #4159, PR #4150, PR #4164)
- enhance documentation of checksums easyconfig parameter (docs PR #853)
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changes
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PRs for EasyBuild 5.0
- remove support for Python 2 and 3.5 (PR #4229)
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reported bugs / bug fixes
- easyblocks
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easyconfigs
- still over 800 open easyconfig PRs...
- questions
- PyTorch packages collected into single easyconfig, e.g. torchvision as extension? (PR #17489)
- bug fixes/reports
- fix configure step for ELSI 2.5.0+ (and add missing foss versions) (PR #17288)
- Julia: user depot not accesible with Pkg.add (issue #17455)
- enhancements
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- new software
- noteworthy software updates
- changes
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docs
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