EPSCI Group Meeting Jul. 6, 2020

The meeting time is 10:00am.

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Agenda:

1. Previous meeting
2. Announcements
   • Beam delivery for physics starts July 27th(ish)
   • Github Private Repositories (see below)
3. NERSC Activity support
4. Ongoing Activities
   • Hall A/C Software support (Carl T.)
   • EVIO-6 (Carl T.)
   • JANA2 (Nathan B.)
   • JLab Common Environment (CE) + SPACK
   • SRO Activities (Vardan G.)
     • EIC ERO meeting today at 11am (bluejeans)
     • No EPSCI SRO Meeting this afternoon!
5. Publications
   • Fortnight Papers
6. AOT

GitHub Private Repositories

Dear JLab GitHub users,

JLab's licensing arrangement with GitHub presently allows a maximum of 450 'private' repos to be created under the JeffersonLab organization. We recently filled that quota and are presently unable to create new private repos. Unfortunately, due to a major restructuring of GitHub's licensing plans there is no easy way to simply increase that limit right now.

We are asking all GitHub members in the JeffersonLab organization to review their repos marked 'private' and do one of the following to help address this issue in the near term. This link shows all private repos:

https://github.com/JeffersonLab?q=&type=private

1) If the repo doesn't really need to be 'private', change
   its Visibility to 'public' in the repo settings.
   * NOTE: 'public' does not mean that others can modify
           the repo.  If you would be comfortable putting
           a tarball on a wiki or webpage somewhere (ie.
           public_html/, etc), then 'public' should be
           fine on GitHub.

2) If the repo is unused and unneeded, then delete it.
   (Check with collaborators first!)

3) If appropriate, it could be transferred to your personal
   account. (Se repo settings: 'Transfer Ownership' at
   bottom.)
   ** One positive change in GitHub's setup is that
      personal accounts can now create private repositories.
      That used to be a paid-only feature.  So, some classes
      of work (ie.  papers, proposals, etc) can be well served
      under 'free' personal accounts.
    - Larger projects, and JLab-specific work should remain
      attached to the JeffersonLab organization.

• • NOTE: There is no limit on 'public' repositories. Don't worry about those at all.

 We're working on a long term solution to this issue, but
 please investigate the steps above to help us all out in the
 near term.
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Minutes:

Attendees: David L.(chair), Carl T., Nathan B., Thomas B., Vardan G., Graham H.

Announcements

• Beam scheduled to start physics production around July 27 and run for ~6 weeks
  • CODA will be used during that time so Carl and Vardan will need to be available to support it if needed
  • David and Thomas will need to ensure monitoring (RootSpy+Hydra, HOSS) are running in Hall-D
• CODA GitHub provate repositories
  • Several DAQ-related private repositories that look to have been converted to GitHub by Dave Abbott some time ago
  • Some like, codaObjects and codaChannels are no longer supported (Elliott's creations)
  • David L. will contact Dave A. to ask
• Copyright/Disclaimer on Software
  • Discussion back in 2014 produced example notice that is currently in use in JANA2
    • Effort stalled due to lack of full consensus from invested parties
  • Graham will bring it up at IT meeting tomorrow

EVIO-6

• Still estimating ~1month of work

JANA2

• EVIO event source and janadump nearly working
• No good estimate on time left to complete GlueX port (will be done before LDRD ends for certain)

SPACK

• Disk space/directory assigned: /scigroup/scicomp/sw/scipack
• Thomas has been working on it (EIC is starting point)

OSG

• Cooling issues at site running "collector" (UCSD) ... twice
• In process of moving collector process to JLab
• Some issues after Condor upgrade (disk space request defaulting to 1kB?)

SRO Activities

• Sergey fixed 2nd Hall-B setup last week
• Chris L. will work on converting Graham's code to be multi-stream (he's out all this week though)
• Vardan has had some laptop issues. Is now borrowing one from helpdesk until his is fixed

CODA

• Vardan has done some stress testing with AFECS and jcedit prior to the upcoming run