Conference notes for 2022 06 07

Agenda Lmod Zoom Mtg: June 7, 2022

Issue #578: Dynamic Spider Caches: Allowing users to have modules in their home directory that spider will find
New Script Template for submitting bugs
Presentation on "How Lmod loads a modulefile (part 1)"

see https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/issues/578
Compiler/MPI modules in a hierarchy need to take into account that users can have their own modules in their home directory as well
spider cache is not aware of these
module files that extend $MODULEPATH need special treatment, these should be reloaded such that modules in user's home dir are also picked up
fix is work in progress in testing branch, see https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/tree/testing
Robert is planning to include this into a next Lmod version, probably enabled as default (and accept minor performance hit)
will initially be released as Lmod 8.7.4 for testing, then also in Lmod 8.8 after feedback to bring attention to it

bug reports are coming in without an example module tree
recently someone provided a script that should be run with env -i
- wipes environment (incl. HOME/USER, but that can be prevented)
plan is to ask people who submit a bug report to include a script like that
could also set up an issue template in Lmod GitHub repository to remind people about that
- see https://docs.github.com/en/communities/using-templates-to-encourage-useful-issues-and-pull-requests/configuring-issue-templates-for-your-repository

Lmod warning about finding too many non-module files next to module files
- should limit (currently hardcoded at 100) be configurable?
- hidden files are not counted (or shouldn't be)