Telcon: 2019 03 28

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Recently-merged PRs of general interest
- Apply patches in a consistent order: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/10879
- Point a local Spack instance to another instance to use packages installed in the other instance (chaining): https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/8772
- CMake packages now build in the base stage directory rather than the expanded source directory: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/8431
  - This allows CMake packages to reference the build directory in setup_environment
- (ajw1980) For Spack installs on shared filesystems with multiple possible architectures, access the appropriate module prefix: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/10975
- (Chris Green) Support VISUAL environment variable for spack edit: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/10898
- (Adam J Stewart) Enforce every package to have a description: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/10896
TBD: solicited
- Issues #10851 ( "Inconsistent Spec hash due to patch ordering"), and #10852 (" Hash of package changes if order of patch hashes in list changes"), and PR #10879 ("Consistent patch ordering") (requested by Chris Green).
- Issue #10850 ("Installation issue: ROOT build failure") and possible fixes (requested by Chris Green).