Conference call notes 20220720

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Notes on the 202nd EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday 20 July 2022 (8:00 UTC)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (7):

• Simon Branford (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)
• Alan O'Cais (CECAM)
• Martin Errenst (?)
• Thomas Hayward-Schneider (IPP)
• Jurij Pečar (EMBL, Germany)
• Sebastien Moretti (SIB, Switzerland)
• Lev Lafayette (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Agenda

• overview of recent developments + outlook to next release
• Q&A

Recent developments

• release timeline
  • latest release: EasyBuild v4.6.0 (8 July 2022)
  • ETA next release (EasyBuild v4.?): TBC (September?)
• recent changes
  • framework
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • Add script to find dependencies of Python packages (PR #3839)
    • changes
      • ...
  • easyblocks
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • allow some PyTorch tests to fail + print warning if one or more tests fail (PR #2742)
    • updates
      • ...
    • changes
      • ...
    • new software
      • ...
  • easyconfigs
    • ~XXX easyconfig PRs were merged since last conf call
    • bug fixes
      • use build enviroment from EB and add missing dependency on zlib to minimap2 (PR #15859)
      • add missing dependencies and execute tests on Trycycler v0.5.2 (PR #15864)
      • explicitly enable HDF5 from kallisto v0.46.2 onwards (PR #15843)
      • add Autotools build dependency to R 4.2.0 w/ foss 2021b (PR #15822)
    • enhancements
      • add patch for GCCcore 11.3.0 to support using -fuse-ld=mold (PR #15715)
      • Fix BLIS build on PPC #15826
    • (noteworthy) new software
      • see also overview at https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues?q=is%3Amerged+label%3Anew
      • ...
    • noteworthy software updates
      • R v4.2.1 with foss/2022a (PR #15767)
      • PyTorch v1.11.0 w/ Python 3.9.5 w/ CUDA 11.3.1 (PR #15137)
    • changes
      • disable flaky GPU test for TensorFlow 2.6.0 (PR #15824)
• ...
  • framework
    • reported bugs / bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • add support for start_dir easyconfig template (PR #4035)
    • changes
      • ...
  • easyblocks
    • bug reports/fixes
      • fix extension filter for Perl packages (PR #2699)
      • PythonPackage is not compatible with --sanity-check-only (issue #2745)
    • enhancements
      • add support for iterative build of OpenBLAS with 64-bit integers (PR #2753)
    • updates
      • Update LAMMPS easyblock for LAMMPS/29Oct20 (PR #2213)
    • new software
      • ...
    • changes
      • ...
  • easyconfigs
    • over 650 open easyconfig PRs, we're way overdue a significant cleanup round...
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • support offline installation of Rust (see also issue #13548)
    • new software
      • see https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/labels/new
      • ...
    • noteworthy software updates
      • ...
    • changes
      • suggestion: always use PythonBundle instead of PythonPackage (issue #15639)

Q&A

• Slack limits
  • 90 days
• OpenSource project moving off GitHub
  • both are items to think about