Telcon: 2018 12 13

Attendees

Recently-merged PRs (which may affect general Spack usage)
- Customized install methods based on Spack versions (using the @when decorator) did not work with inheritance, that should now be addressed by: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/10028
- (minor) better error messages for conflicting constraints: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/9975
Spack User conference
- who is interested? would people be willing to travel to talk specifically about doing deployments/builds with Spack
- We are at ECP (tutorial on Monday Jan. 14)
- There is a Spack configs repo where sites share their yaml files: https://github.com/spack/spack-configs
Greg, Todd, and Matt will also be at LANL Jan 28-31
- Might be a good time to organize a WG with Dan
Update from SC18
- SC18 Spack Tutorial had 60 attendees
  - Gave away 55 T-shirts in 10 minutes
  - clearly we didn't make enough T-shirts
- SC18 Spack BOF had 80 attendees
  - 31 responses to our user survey; you can see them here:
    - https://bit.ly/sc18-spack-bof
    - Presentations from the SC18 BOF:
      - Todd Gamblin (LLNL): Overview and Announcements
      - Adam Stewart (UIUC): The Growing Spack Community
      - Veronica Vergara and Matt Belhorn (OLCF): Spack at the OLCF
      - Johannes Albert-von der Gönna (LRZ): How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love* Spack
      - Marc Perache (CEA): Spack Usage at CEA