Re: [boinc_dev] Client Release 7.10

2018-01-13 Thread Laurence
Hi David, I have added versions.xml and set project_id in the config.xml. https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/versions.xml Please let me know if there is anything else. Cheers, Laurence On 13.01.2018 20:53, David Anderson wrote: Laurence: Yes.  Testing instructions are here: https

Re: [boinc_dev] server stable release issues

2018-01-12 Thread Laurence
On 11/01/18 23:18, David Anderson wrote: Most server software releases would involve changes to the DB structure and would therefore be backward incompatible. I would not class this as backward incompatibility. ___ boinc_dev mailing list

Re: [boinc_dev] server stable release issues

2018-01-12 Thread Laurence
avoid adding too many semantics to them.  The basic major.minor.patch semantics will lead to divergence of version number between the client and the server. This would be an argument for having them in separate repositories. But practically it does not matter. Cheers, Laurence _

Re: [boinc_dev] New Vboxwrapper builds

2018-01-11 Thread Laurence
before they can switch. I would be happy with only the COM_OFF version being released from now on and RNA world can stick with the old version until they have evaluated the new version. Cheers, Laurence On 10/01/18 17:44, David Anderson wrote: What's the COM vs. non-COM tradeoff?  Why

Re: [boinc_dev] Client Release 7.10

2018-01-10 Thread Laurence Field
test this we need a production project with latest server code. SETI@home is close to having this. We'll start testing 7.10 at that point. -- David On 1/10/2018 5:33 AM, Laurence wrote: > Are there any plans to start the 7.10 client release? > > Cheers, >

[boinc_dev] New Vboxwrapper builds

2018-01-10 Thread Laurence
he official repository for these files? We can of course do the builds ourself and provide the binaries but are not sure if that is acceptable. Cheers, Laurence ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mail

[boinc_dev] Client Release 7.10

2018-01-10 Thread Laurence
Are there any plans to start the 7.10 client release? Cheers, Laurence ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter

Re: [boinc_dev] Linux build issues

2017-11-16 Thread Laurence Field
has already been done, I would recommend building on that. For example I think you can install the build dependencies with following command. sudo apt-get build-dep boinc-client Building from the deb-src will also add a few patches. Cheers, Laurence

Re: [boinc_dev] Linux build issues

2017-11-16 Thread Laurence Field
Hi Kathryn, Why are you trying to build from source? It should already be available for Raspian. Cheers, Laurence On 16/11/17 20:28, Kathryn Marks wrote: Hi all I'm having a difficult time building the client on Raspian. The OS is fully updated everyday. I've solved previous errors

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC 7.8.4 for Mac

2017-11-10 Thread Laurence Field
Hi Charlie, I don't see a 7.8.4 tag in git. Cheers, Laurence On 10/11/17 23:27, Charlie Fenton wrote: I have built BOINC 7.8.4 for the Mac and uploaded it to <http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl>. This fixes the calculation of GPU memory when running under OS 10.13 High Sierra.

Re: [boinc_dev] Unit tests to validate XML requests and responses

2017-11-09 Thread Laurence
Hi Vitalii On 05/11/17 14:19, Vitalii Koshura wrote: What do you think, guys? I think this is a good idea. I would also like to see the client-server RPC documented and tested. Cheers, Laurence ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] BOINC - October 2017 VirtualBox and VBoxWrapper updates

2017-11-06 Thread Laurence Field
first but at that time the risk of VirtualBox 5.2 acting bad and tasks returning bad science results seemed low enough. I just wanted to make sure you weren't waisting your time. Using either project is fine and no need to ask for permission. Cheers, Laurence

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] BOINC - October 2017 VirtualBox and VBoxWrapper updates

2017-11-06 Thread Laurence
this way while we wait for the changes to be included upstream. Until these changes are included upstream, we will be using the fork. Cheers, Laurence On 06/11/17 14:52, Jacob Klein wrote: Hi Laurence, 2 things. 1) I usually only do RNA World tasks (which rarely have VMs available

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] BOINC - October 2017 VirtualBox and VBoxWrapper updates

2017-11-06 Thread Laurence
wrapper, we spent 2 months debugging it! The issues you hit is that port 9618 is blocked for out going traffic on your machine. http://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/test4theory/my-firewall-complaining-which-ports-does-project-use Cheers, Laurence ___ boinc_

Re: [boinc_dev] Linux BOINC advice

2017-10-23 Thread Laurence Field
Hi, Please note that v7.8 has not yet been released so v7.8.3 is still in development. The PPA is a way that we can test on Linux before the official release. Cheers, Laurence On 23/10/17 10:49, TarotApprentice wrote: I think the advice by Laurence needs to be changed: --- Quoted

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-22 Thread Laurence
-manager Test reports can be sent to the alpha testing project and bugs can be reported to the Fedora or Debian bug trackers respectively. Regards, Laurence On 16/10/17 00:49, David Anderson wrote: 7.8.3 has 90% test coverage and it looks good. Any objections to releasing it? -- David

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Laurence Field
the presentation that we are not that far from this goal. Cheers, Laurence ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Laurence
r individual distributions, for several years now. Laurence is the release manager for Linux, I suspect he knows about all of that. :-) No I didn't, so thanks. Only stepped forward after the September workshop. But even if the distro package maintainers release these versions, they also

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Laurence
Thanks, I did not know about this. Is this documented anywhere? How are the results collected? I notice that there is an absence for the Linux operating system but as 3/4 of the resources are from Windows user, the Windows client is obviously more important. Laurence On 16/10/17 10:47

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Laurence
can skip 7.8.3 for Linux and release 7.8.4. Cheers, Laurence ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email

Re: [boinc_dev] 7.8.3 client released for testing

2017-10-13 Thread Laurence Field
Hi David, The build is failing on Fedora 28 and requires this fix which is already waiting to be merged. https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/2092 Regards, Laurence On 13/10/17 23:20, Laurence Field wrote: [This sender failed our fraud detection checks and may not be who they appear

Re: [boinc_dev] 7.8.3 client released for testing

2017-10-13 Thread Laurence Field
on 4 Feb 2015, it should have really been fixed upstream for this release. https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/1187 @LocutusOfBorg (Gianfranco Costamagna) is the Debian packager and @Germano0 (Germano Massullo) is a Fedora packager. Regards, Laurence On 06/10/17 08:50, David Anderson wrote

Re: [boinc_dev] 7.8.3 client released for testing

2017-10-06 Thread Laurence
Hi Richard, Thanks for the clarification. I see that the branch is in fact client_release/7/7.8 so it is now clear to me that 7.8.3 refers to the tag. Thanks, Laurence On 06/10/17 12:20, Richard Haselgrove wrote: Commit a3b75f4 is the only difference between the two possible source

Re: [boinc_dev] 7.8.3 client released for testing

2017-10-06 Thread Laurence
should I test? Regards, Laurence On 06/10/17 08:50, David Anderson wrote: The 7.8.3 client is now being tested. This is a release candidate, so please test soon and thoroughly. The changes since 7.8.2.: - fixed bug where slot directories aren't cleaned out - fixed possible buffer overflow when

[boinc_dev] Server Package For CentOS 7

2017-08-25 Thread Laurence
et any other Linux distributions but support the FHS should help those too. Regards, Laurence Note: Here are the Fedora Packaging Guidelines <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines>. ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.

Re: [boinc_dev] Separation of BOINC client and server source tree

2017-08-23 Thread Laurence
. Cheers, Laurence On 22/08/17 15:43, Steffen Möller wrote: Hello, We cannot distribute the BOINC server package in Debian since it is not allowed to have code redundancy between packages of the distribution, and be it for the source packages, so we cannot have the server and client releases

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_wg] Re: [boinc_alpha] Time for version 7.8.1?

2017-08-14 Thread Laurence Field
contributors, then there will be no one to take on these roles. I have already pointed out some for the issues in a mail that I sent June 2nd. Cheers, Laurence ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [boinc_dev] Software development and branches, was Re: [boinc_projects] keywords

2017-08-08 Thread Laurence
. Cheers, Laurence ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.

Re: [boinc_dev] Software development and branches, was Re: [boinc_projects] keywords

2017-08-08 Thread Laurence
Hi Oliver, On 08/08/17 10:22, Oliver Bock wrote: On 08/08/17 10:12 , Laurence wrote: My comment was referring to maintaining the release so creating the major.minor branch right after publishing. Does that mean you want to publish a release based on (build from) master and only then create

Re: [boinc_dev] Software development and branches, was Re: [boinc_projects] keywords

2017-08-08 Thread Laurence
On 08/08/17 10:03, Jason Groothuis wrote: The old way is about control. The new way is about freedom. Do the developers work directly for the project or are they autonomous but wish to collaborate? ___ boinc_dev mailing list

Re: [boinc_dev] Software development and branches, was Re: [boinc_projects] keywords

2017-08-08 Thread Laurence
Hi Oliver, There are two different scenarios, validating the code before the release and maintaining the release. My comment was referring to maintaining the release so creating the major.minor branch right after publishing. Cheers, Laurence On 08/08/17 09:36, Oliver Bock wrote: Hi

Re: [boinc_dev] Software development and branches, was Re: [boinc_projects] keywords

2017-08-07 Thread Laurence Field
HI Oliver, On 07/08/17 09:55, Oliver Bock wrote: As Laurence pointed out: release branches are to stabilize and fix releases. This is not what I intended to communicate. When the master (which should be stable) has the required features and been tested, a release is made and a branch

Re: [boinc_dev] Software development and branches, was Re: [boinc_projects] keywords

2017-08-04 Thread Laurence Field
. I don't think we need to target any other platform but please let me know if there are others. Cheers, Laurence ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit

Re: [boinc_dev] Time for version 7.8.1?

2017-08-04 Thread Laurence Field
Hi David, You can also modify the command prompt to show which branch you are in. https://coderwall.com/p/fasnya/add-git-branch-name-to-bash-prompt This is useful, even when not doing releases. Cheers, Laurence On 04/08/17 21:17, David Anderson wrote: Having the branch in a separate

Re: [boinc_dev] Time for version 7.8.1?

2017-08-04 Thread Laurence
everything? This means that if github disappeared tomorrow, we could recreate the repository from anyone's local copy? Cheers, Laurence ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev

Re: [boinc_dev] Time for version 7.8.1?

2017-08-04 Thread Laurence
Hi, On 04/08/17 11:52, Laurence wrote: We should be targeting at least Debian and Fedora. I am in the processes of doing this. Sorry for joining this conversation late. For Fedora we were taking the code from the following URL https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/archive/client_release/7.6

Re: [boinc_dev] Time for version 7.8.1?

2017-08-04 Thread Laurence
testing again. We should be targeting at least Debian and Fedora. I am in the processes of doing this. Cheers, Laurence ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe

Re: [boinc_dev] An additional preference to prevent downloading when on WiFi, to enable downloading only on when connected to cable

2017-04-04 Thread Laurence
. If the bandwidth reduces while the job is running, it is handled the same way as having no network. It should be fairly easy to do the same thing in BOINC. Cheers, Laurence On 01/04/17 00:32, David Anderson wrote: Laurence: That would be great. What are the additional features? Where can I look

Re: [boinc_dev] Issues with Boinc and VirtualBox

2017-03-31 Thread Laurence
and recent VirtualBox versions so these issues that you report need to be fixed or handled. Cheers, Laurence On 31/03/17 01:53, Samuel Foster wrote: Hi Everyone, I recently made a post<https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=11538> on the Boinc message boards about some

Re: [boinc_dev] Fwd: Re: [boinc_alpha] R: BOINC 7.7.2 released for Win

2017-03-29 Thread Laurence
releases including the server should be versioned, and bugs/features should be developed on branches. Cheers, Laurence On 29/03/17 13:22, Richard Haselgrove wrote: I'm talking about the information visible to volunteers outside the core project staff. Small science projects don't have

[boinc_dev] Problems Packaging BOINC client for Fedora

2016-02-29 Thread Laurence
GNAL, NULL, 0) = 80 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7f2e19cf8cd0) = 25434 exit_group(0) = ? +++ exited with 0 +++ The log message is fine but no processes are left once it has exited. Any