The software week goal is to facilitate coordination between communication and collaboration between everyone as we move forward with the transition away from DOE funding for Fermi. FSSC members will be available at SLAC all week for group discussions and one-on-one meetings. In addition to targeted topics, we encourage attendees with broad or cross-cutting interests to join the various discussions. There will be plenty of work, so we'll need everyone to take part in this transition.
Previous Software Week: Winter Software Week 2017 and associated Notes
Dates: September 11-15, 2017
Location: SLAC: Tulare (4th floor SUSB) primary; Toluca (4th floor SUSB) parallel (unavailable Wed 9/13 1:30-2:30)
Remote access: using Zoom - https://stanford.zoom.us/j/824536403
Wifi:
- eduroam
- visitor network
Onsite Food:
- SLAC Cafeteria - 2nd floor SUSB
- Starbucks - near the Guest House
Remote Attendance: We encourage everyone to attend the meeting in person. But we are also planning to provide remote access capability for people who cannot attend, but are interested in joining the discussions. Please indicate below if you will need remote access so that we can plan effectively.
Strawman agenda
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AM | 9 AM Tulare | 9 AM Tulare | 9 AM Tulare | 9 AM Tulare | 9 AM Tulare |
| PM | 1 PM ISOC with Steve Tether Special Event in ROB 3-4:30 Bldg 48 | 1:00 - 1:30 ISOC ops (Toluca) | 11:15 field trip to IR2 with Tom G 1:00 - 2:30 ISOC ops (Toluca) | 2:00 - 2:30 ISOC ops (Toluca) |
Attendees
| Name | Local or Connecting Remotely? | From | Availability | Topics of Interest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Dubois | local | SLAC | All week (with lots of holes: Mon 10-11; Tues 9-10; Wed: 12:30-2:30; Thurs 8:30-10); Fri 12:30-2:30 | |
| Joe Asercion | local | FSSC | All week (and then some) | |
| Tom Stephens | local | FSSC | All week | |
| Heather Kelly | local | SLAC | Through Friday morning about 11 am (missing: Mon 10-11 and 11-noon?) | |
| Alex Reustle | local | FSSC | All week | Sciencetools, Conda, CI, Github, Modularization, Data distribution, data products |
| Donald Horner | local | FSSC | All week | |
| Matthew Wood | local | SLAC | All week | |
| Tom Glanzman | local | SLAC | Intermittently all week | repro, cmd-line skimmer, and (as an interested bystander) archiver |
| Joanne Bogart | local | SLAC | All week, possible interruptions | Use (or not) of subrepo; future of RM |
| Rob Cameron | local | SLAC | All week, with lots of outages | |
| Joe Eggen | local | FSSC | All week | |
| Elizabeth Ferrara | local | FSSC | Through midday Friday | |
| Regina Caputo | local | GSFC | all week | |
| Nicola Omodei | local | SU | Tuesday -> Friday (not Monday) and leaving at 3:15 on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday | Reprocessing, pipeline |
| Jermey Perkins | local | GSFC | All Week | |
| Brian Van Klaveren | local | SLAC | Unavailable Monday at 11am-12PM, Wednesday 12-2PM, Thursday 10-12PM, maybe others | |
| Giacomo Vianello | local | Stanford | All Week | Conda release |
| Steve Tether | local | SLAC | All week off and on | ISOC support |
| Warren Focke | local | SLAC | All Week | L1 |
Session Blocks
- Developer/Release workflow
- GitHub
- When do we migrate and what do we do in the meantime?
- To subrepo or not subrepo?
- Jenkins
- Package management
- Let's try out repoman
- Where does RM and associated tools fit in?
- Scons + git integration for tag and commit auto-discovery at compile time
- Conda distributions
- Anaconda channel
- recipes
- Currently using hmake
- Docker/Singularity
- OS support issues
- Mac?
- Mac?
- GitHub
- Migration to Disk Buffer at SLAC
- Pipeline Ops Support (running HalfPipe, L1, ASP)
- ISOC Support
- Virtualization
- Archiver
- ISOC Operations Tasks and Tools
- Monitoring, Trending, Reporting
- Monitoring, Trending, Reporting
- ScienceTools
- package owners/manager
- Status of ST-User
- GlastRelease expertise and migration to GitHub
- External Libraries
- Documentation
- Future of the existing workbook
- Migrate to Confluence or rSt?
- Migrate to Confluence or rSt?
- Future of the existing workbook
- Skimmer support
- Reprocessing (Tom and Nicola)
New ideas, Tabled, to be discussed:
- For Continuous Integration, find way to replace human in the loop testing with automated science validation tests (so a computer can do it for you).
- Rewrite the technical verification tests to be fast.
- Write automated Science Validation tests to be fast from the start.
- Move thread format from HTML to Markdown or RST
- Find better way to update the documentation. (maybe host it on github).