Telcon: 2018 10 04

Attendees

Recently merged PRs of general interest:
- Documentation for using Linux containers on Cray systems: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9398
- Additional module parsing fixes: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9374
- Lock timeout customization: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9219
  - Also provides better support for parallel package installs
Request for reviews (Massimiliano)
- https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9261 (solves recursion if ruamel.yaml is installed in the system, vendors setuptools)
- https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9199 (adds a new command to check if installed packages might not be relocatable)
- https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9168 (makes setting RUNPATH vs. RPATH an option in config.yaml instead of a property of the system we are using - needs hints on whether to continue development of further features in that PR or not)
Request for review / discussion, time allowing (Chris Green)
- https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/8431 (change the location of the build area from the staged source directory to the stage directory.)
- https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/8476 (new environment manipulation functions for system path deprioritization and duplicate removal)
- https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9324 (allow secondary generators when building with CMake)
- https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9340 (new package pythia6, including optional extra code for compatibility with Root)
(TBD, solicited)