Dear EasyBuilders, Starting to use a brand new toolchain is always a challenge, since the limited number of easyconfigs initially means you need to develop a lot yourself. Therefore, we are organizing a sprint that synchronizes this effort amongst the community, so that together we can kickstart the development of GCCcore-9.3, foss-2020a, intel-2020a based easyconfigs ! Hopefully, this will result in a large number of easyconfigs being available quickly after the release of the 2020a toolchains.
This announcement is a bit short-term, but: the sprint will take place next Tuesday (March 17th 2020) and Thursday (March 19th), between 9am and 1pm CET. Instructions on how to participate can be found at [ https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/EasyBuild-Sprint-2020a-toolchains | https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/EasyBuild-Sprint-2020a-toolchains ] You may already take some steps to prepare a development installation of EasyBuild, these are also included in this page. And as always: don't worry about asking for help. There will be plenty of maintainers around during the sprint who are happy to help you contribute! If you want to participate, please - join the #merge-sprint channel on the EasyBuild Slack (request invitation for Slack via https://easybuild-slack.herokuapp.com/) - send a reply to this e-mail "I'm in!" (so we have some idea of who / how many to expect) With regards, Caspar van Leeuwen (EasyBuild co-maintainer)
