Telcon: 2017 08 24

Participants

1. Greg Becker
2. Peter Scheibel
3. Mark Miller
4. Patrick Gartung

News

1. Binary Caching PR is merged.

   • Require explicitly requesting binary packages.

2. Grouping Travis CI tests #5104

   • "Fail fast" for most common failures (flake)

3. Ongoing various improvements on github.

Other topics

1. Ongoing development on binary caching

   • We would like spack install to use binary chache packages when available
   • Peter is working on this.

2. Working to merge Peter's RPM generation PR soon

3. Shared/static variants and other common variants.

   • Are we going to standardize or create global variants?
     • cmake package has build_type
     • Standardization for +/~ pic
     • What are we doing going forward?
       • Determined we will consider this issue in the coming week and put it on the agenda for next week.