Telcon: 2015 10 22

Participants

• Telcon canceled, updates only.

New package contributions

• Trilnos (Massimiliano Culpo, EPFL)
• ActiveHarmony auto-tuning framework (Kevin Huck, Oregon)
• APEX task runtime measurement tool for HPX (Kevin Huck, Oregon)
• OpenMPI and MPICH updates (Jeff Squyres, Cisco)
• netcdf update (Ben Boeckel, Kitware)
• binutils now has option to build with +libiberty`
• libffi version update (Mario Melara, NERSC)

News

• develop is now the default branch for Spack on github, and shows up on the main page.

  • This shows all the activity and contributors much more clearly
  • allows faster updates to the public-facing README.md
  • Makes develop the default PR branch (no more accidental PR's to master)
  • develop is the default clone branch (no more having to tell people to use develop)
  • master essentially a release branch and is not the focus, per git flow

• Spack has a logo!

  • It's in the repo
  • 
  • Shows a DAG -- Meant to represent a package installed in two configurations, one with an additional dependency.

• Spack Cray implementation is progressing with LLNL/NERSC meetings.

• Kitware continuing to work on ParaView port.

• PRs starting to get merged into develop.