Telcon: 2018 05 03

Attendees

• Peter Scheibel (host)
• James Amundson
• Michael Sternberg
• Patrick Gartung
• Greg Becker

Updates / Discussion (solicited)

• Recently-merged PRs:

  • Spack config file bug fixed: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/7959
  • Documentation on how to view print statements in unit tests: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/7860
  • Make symlink of python3 to python optional: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/7960
  • Update of gitlab version URLs: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/7881

• Updates on reviewing PRs: added section on pypi links (see: https://github.com/spack/spack/wiki/Reviewing-PRs-for-Spack#python)

• Feel free to ping Peter (scheibelp) or Greg (becker33) on github to ask about tests/PRs

• Update on Spack Environments

  • See: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/7843
  • And Spack Setup too!

• Python3-based DAGs: What is the right approach?

  • DAGs requiring python 3 and building with python 2 won't build now
  • https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/7926

• BundlePackage: How to write unit test?

  • BundlePackage is just intended to collect a bunch of packages

• Michael: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/7469

  • How to test?

• James: spack chain command: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/8014

  • How does this compare to spack server? how does it compare to a shared spack instance?