Conference call notes 20230719

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Notes on the 225th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday 19 July 2023 (08:00 UTC)

Attendees

List of attendees (15):

• Adam Huffman (Big Data Institute, Oxford, UK)
• Alex Domingo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
• Alexander Grund (ZIH, Dresden, Germany)
• Jasper Grimm (University of York, UK)
• Jure Peĉar (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)
• Jörg Saßmannshausen (Imperial College London, UK)
• Jorge Guerra (???)
• Kurt Lust (UAntwerpen, Belgium + LUMI User Support Team)
• Mikael
• Sam Moors (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
• Sebastien Moretti (SIB, Switzerland)
• Simon Branford (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)
• Thomas Hoffman (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)

Agenda

• overview of recent developments
• Q&A

Recent developments

• EasyBuild v4.8.0 is released!
  • 2023a toolchains are here
  • new PerlBundle and Cargo easyblocks
  • many fixes
• progress on EasyBuild 5.0
  • see updates in https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/EasyBuild-5.0-working-group
• recent changes
  • docs (merged PRs)
    • ...
  • framework (merged PRs)
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • ...
    • changes
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    • EasyBuild 5.0 (to 5.0.x branch)
      • remove support for 32-bit targets (PR #4272)
  • easyblocks (merged PRs)
    • bug fixes
      • use checkMCR.sh to determine if we have the correct MCR for FreeSurfer (PR #2962)
    • enhancements
      • ...
    • updates
      • ...
    • changes
      • ...
    • new easyblocks
      • ...
    • EasyBuild 5.0 (to 5.0.x branch)
      • ...
  • easyconfigs (merged PRs)
    • over 30 easyconfig PRs were merged since last conf call
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • (noteworthy) new software
      • see also https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+label%3Anew
      • HOOMD-blue v4.0.1 (PR #18218)
      • segment-anything v1.0 (PR #18290)
      • HDF-EOS2 v3.0 ([PR #18297] https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/18297))
    • noteworthy software updates
      • see also https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+label%3Aupdate+
      • Horovod w/ TensorFlow (PR #18265)
      • Horovod w/ PyTorch (PR #18266)
      • Z3 w/ Python bindings (PR #18284)
    • changes
      • set JULIA_DEPOT_PATH in Julia easyconfigs with default value (PR #17976)
  • docs (open PRs + issues)
    • project board to perform yearly review cycle of all documentation pages: https://github.com/orgs/easybuilders/projects/17/views/1
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  • framework (open PRs + issues)
    • reported bugs / bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • ...
    • changes
      • ...
    • EasyBuild 5.0 (to 5.0.x branch)
      • ...
  • easyblocks (open PRs + issues)
    • bug reports/fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • ...
    • updates
      • ...
    • new easyblocks
      • new easyblock for cargopythonbundle (PR #2964)
        • inherits both PythonBundle and Cargo, but inheritance is not trivial (see linked issue in PR)
        • useful to have bundles with some extensions depending on setuptools-rust
    • changes
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  • easyconfigs (open PRs + issues)
    • bug fixes/reports
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • ...
    • new software
      • ...
    • noteworthy software updates
      • Python-bundle-PyPI v2023.06, hatchling v1.18.0, virtualenv v20.23.1, cryptography, bcrypt (PR #18208)
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    • changes
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Q&A

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