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- Brian to update repoman to provide an init step to detect if a user has SSH credentials available for GitHub, will revert to HTTP otherwise.
- Brian may consider making repoman a conda package
- Richard will contact the Computing Center to determine the fate of astore and recommended mitigation plans for data access.
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Alex's update from yesterday's afternoon session with Giacomo and Joe A. concerning conda builds for Mac.
Alex was working on building the external dependencies for the Mac.
Giacomo worked on getting Travis-CI builds working.
Joe A worked on getting the tests and environment variable setup fixed.
Once the fermi-lat GH area is set up, they will point to the new repo and use that so that we are all sharing the same code base.
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ISOC software summary - Steve's summary from Feb 2017
Archiver
While in the past it performed many functions, the archiver's remaining take is to move Raw data + FastCopy data to tape via "astore". Due to losing the ability to obtain an AFS token, much of the archiver's functionality has been lost, including the ability to clean up data on wain031 that has already been backed up. Steve now does this manually.
Steve's opinion is that we should replace the archiver rather than attempt to fix it up.
There are dual backups of the LAT Raw data to both xrootd (via L0xrootd) and "astore" which is an interface to HPSS. "astore" also handed FastCopy archives which while small (1/50th) all the data in rooted, includes packages we receive, Scientific data, housekeeping, mission planning, and data that the ISOC sends.
"astore" is deprecated, Computing Center is planning to discontinue its use at some undetermined time in the future. Brian suggests we may have 2 years, but that needs to be confirmed by the Computing Center. Andrew May is the current "astore" maintainer.
- Deal with old data
- Provide alternate "astore" capability for future data.
Monday
Attendees: Joe E, Joe A, Tom S, Regina, Giacomo, Jermey P, Rob C, Tom S, Elizabeth F, Don H, Alex, Joanne, Richard, Tom G, Heather, Brian, Matt W, Eric (afternoon), Jim C
Action Items from Monday
- We will migrate to GitHub without the use of git tools like subrepo as a first step. Brian will introduce a fresh copy of ST and GR.
- Joanne will test introducing the --rpath flag in the SCons builds.
- At Jim's request, Heather will contact Johan about his needs for ST installations and development.
- Giacomo and Alex will pursue using condo-forge for their conda builds.
- Giacomo and Alex will contact the maintainers of the current condo-forge cfitsio channel.
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