spack-stack-1.9.0 release tasks

[climbfuji]

List of tasks for the release

Project board: https://github.com/orgs/JCSDA/projects/9/views/1

• Create release branches for spack and spack-stack, update doc/source/conf.py and .gitmodules to use release/1.9.0 instead of develop
• Clear project board (no open pull requests other than for specific site configs or documentation)
• Prepare Wiki page for release information
• Roll out release 1.9.0 and update documentation (readthedocs), site config, and wiki page each time - blocked by "Clear project board"
  • acorn (@AlexanderRichert-NOAA)
  • atlantis (@climbfuji)
  • blueback (@climbfuji; not yet available)
  • derecho (@rickgrubin-noaa or @RatkoVasic-NOAA)
  • ~~discover-scu16 ~~ no longer required
  • discover-scu17 [@ashley314]
  • gaea-c5 (@rickgrubin-noaa or @RatkoVasic-NOAA)
  • gaea-c6 (@rickgrubin-noaa or @RatkoVasic-NOAA)
  • hera (@RatkoVasic-NOAA)
  • hercules (@RatkoVasic-NOAA)
  • jet
  • narwhal (@climbfuji)
  • nautilus (@climbfuji)
  • navy-aws (@climbfuji; not yet available)
  • noaa-aws (@rickgrubin-noaa or @RatkoVasic-NOAA)
  • noaa-azure (@rickgrubin-noaa or @RatkoVasic-NOAA)
  • noaa-gcloud (@rickgrubin-noaa or @RatkoVasic-NOAA)
  • orion (@RatkoVasic-NOAA)
  • s4 [@InnocentSouopgui-NOAA]
  • ursa (@rickgrubin-noaa)
  • JCSDA AWS Parallelcluster [no release unless requested]
  • JCSDA AWS AMI [@stiggy87 ]
  • JCSDA CI containers [@eap] - [complete; updated aws and hub.docker.com]
• Tag spack, update doc/source/conf.py and .gitmodules to use tag instead of release branch, tag spack-stack (@climbfuji)
• Prepare and publish release notes (@climbfuji): https://github.com/JCSDA/spack-stack/releases
• Close GitHub project

[mathomp4]

Interesting thought here for Discover. I'm going to consult @Dooruk, but I'm thinking we might not need to have both SLES12 (SCU16) and SLES15 (SCU17) stacks.

NCCS is very close to finally killing off SLES12 on the system. The Skylakes are gone and the number of Cascade Lake nodes on SLES12 is trending towards zero. Frankly, NCCS would probably prefer no one even run on SLES12 if possible anymore.

[Dooruk]

Interesting thought here for Discover. I'm going to consult @Dooruk, but I'm thinking we might not need to have both SLES12 (SCU16) and SLES15 (SCU17) stacks.

Yeah, we won't need/use SLES12 modules in our workflow anymore. One less thing to worry about!

[AlexanderRichert-NOAA]

On Acorn, I'm getting duplicates of esmf on account of the 'preferred: +python' in the common settings. I can make it go away by setting a require one way or the other. Can we do a require one way or the other, then override for individual sites if needed?

[rickgrubin-noaa]

@AlexanderRichert-NOAA ot seeing that behavior, but would agree with your proposal.

[climbfuji]

@AlexanderRichert-NOAA ot seeing that behavior, but would agree with your proposal.

Since folks started installing, would it be possible to overwrite the preferred with a require for Acorn, and fix it as you suggested on develop?

[rickgrubin-tomorrow]

hera / hercules / orion / ursa are complete (and will be re-built when the wgrib2 issue is merged).