Well its guidelines for all xSDK pacakges [which PETSc is part of] so in that sense - it does affect PETSc.
And currently spack is the mechanism for distributing xSDK - hence the polices are being modified into spack language. But spack package primarily exposes the internal package features. [sure there is the spack mechanism part to it as-well] BTW: This vote (for individual packages) is scheduled for today 12:30PM CST Satish On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Scott Kruger wrote: > > > Sorry if I'm missing something, but my take is that this is mostly going to > affect PETSc's spack package file which doesn't affect PETSc directly? I'm > struggling to see how this affects PETSc. > > Scott > > > > On 9/23/20 8:47 AM, Satish Balay via petsc-dev wrote: > > FYI - this policy change would affect petsc - and we [petsc] would have to > > vote on it.. > > > > Too many issues here.. > > > > Satish > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:38:06 +0000 > > From: "Hudson, Stephen Tobias P" > > <00000d3a20d2ae38-dmarc-requ...@listserv.llnl.gov> > > Reply-To: XSDK-DEV <xsdk-...@listserv.llnl.gov> > > To: xsdk-...@listserv.llnl.gov > > Subject: [XSDK-DEV] PR20 - Vote next xSDK telecon (Oct 1st) > > > > I want to aim to vote on PR20 at the next xSDK telecon (Oct 1st). > > > > PR20. > > https://github.com/xsdk-project/xsdk-community-policies/pull/20<https://github.com/xsdk-project/xsdk-community-policies/pull/20#issuecomment-682222452> > > > > Summary of changes: > > > > M1. Modified to base installation around Spack and includes compliance with > > the Spack variant guidelines. > > > > https://github.com/xsdk-project/xsdk-community-policies/blob/python-updates/installation_policies/xSDK_spack_variant_guidelines.md > > > > Note that these guidelines state that when configuration options exist for > > index size, precision, shared libraries and build_type then they should be > > reflected in Spack variants. > > > > The variant names/types listed are recommendations. Please think about > > whether you are happy with these variants for your code and make any > > comments either on the PR or on the xsdk slack page in the channel > > spack-variants-and-pr20 > > (https://app.slack.com/client/T01AWKXU6F5/C01B3T17P7E) > > > > The old installation polices have been combined into one document called > > pre_spack_install_policies.md<https://github.com/xsdk-project/xsdk-community-policies/blob/python-updates/installation_policies/pre_spack_install_policies.md> > > and are no longer part of M1. > > > > M16. The old M16 has been removed as this is incorporated into M1. A new M16 > > requires a Debug build option. > > > > If you have any questions or comments, and especially if I have overlooked > > any previous comments, please let me know either in PR or in the Slack > > channel referenced above. > > > > > > ######################################################################## > > > > To unsubscribe from the XSDK-DEV list, click the following link: > > http://listserv.llnl.gov/SCRIPTS/wa.exe?SUBED1=XSDK-DEV&A=1 > >