WeeklyTelcon_20170905

Open MPI Weekly Telcon

Didn't get an RC out.
Discussed and agreed to PR4167
Josh Hursey's Patch for Dynamic components linking against their project library. *
Someone's saying DBM is still not fully operational in v3.0.x. Took it out of known issues because we thought it was working. Adding back to Readme.
Issue3299
- Should fix it for v3.0.x, but don't hold v3.0.0 for it.
Schedule
- Get a v3.0.0 Beta Out tomorrow Morning.

libpmix failed in linking against libopal.
- atomic opal_atomic - 64bit in 32bit? In PMIX?
- Nathan merged in something on Sept 1st.

NFS path testing - Annoying check in opal, and associated test.
- Intent to ensure we don't put shared memory filesystem components put into NFS locations.
- Failed on Cray. Fragile test. Lets fix the test to more portable, and not touch many filesystem things, or remove.
- Probably doesn't belong in make check.
- A developer might want to look at this, but a user probably doesn't want to do this.
- Has performance implications, if shared memory components are put onto NFS.
- We have had users who got bit by this, but Make Check might not have been their answer.
- Brian will file an issue.
Brian is going to add -m32 builds to our test suite.
- But not actually IA32 hardware, but close enough.
Brian tried some new ways of building the tarball, but it failed... so dealyed until Thanksgiving.
Root filesystem on webserver failed, because jenkins failed.
- increased the log rotation to prevent this, but last debian update overwrote the log rotation updates...
- So it was causing too many logs to be preserved.
- Server tries to reach out to MacOS Jenkins server, but fails and logs that failure. happening continuously.
  - Will work with Nathan to have his server update jenkins, not jenkins reach out.

Schedule for NEXT v3.1 release (Branch and Ship)
- Yes there are features in Master that we need to do a fall release.
- If we shoot for mid-October. Branching Now would give 6 weeks.
- It might look better if we branch chronologically right after we post v3.0.0.
- Go/NoGo on making a branch.
  - If you need something for v3.1.0 please bring a list of potential white-list items next week.
  - We'd like to get rid of the concept of white-listing features.
  - v3.0.0 was exceptional since we needed some PMIx items.
- Brian will send email out to devel about this proposal.
Like to enable -Werror. We've gotten sloppy.
- Could target this for v3.1.0. (or later, need to discuss).
- It would be tricky to do this for v3.1 if we're targeting branching next week.
- Keep on agenda for next face to face, but that's not until 2018, so might be good to discuss before then.
Running Open MPI in a Container Discussion
- Brian is going to write up a proposal and send it around to discuss.
Next face-to-face meeting
- Jan / Feb
- Possible locations: San Jose, Portland, Albuquerque, Dallas