# EESSI support sync meeting (2026-27-01)

*(prepared by Caspar)*

Focus of this meeting:
- **re-evaluate assignment of open support requests and pull requests**
- specific support-related tasks worth discussing

Attending: Thomas, Arturo, Davide, Lara, Pedro, Richard, Aayuush, Bob, Loris, Caspar

## Support rotation (status)

- *([link to support rotation](https://gitlab.com/eessi/support/-/wikis/Proposal-support-rotation))*
- SURF is on rotation, handover to RUG on 2 February

## Support tickets

- see [issue board](https://gitlab.com/eessi/support/-/boards/10031924)
- issues discussed have been updated inline

## Bot updates
### Issues(65)
- [358](https://github.com/EESSI/eessi-bot-software-layer/issues/358) The exportvariable funtionality is broken
- Lara has a workaround, so issue is not urgent anymore. She'll look at it during the hackathon.
### Merged PRs
### Open PRs (active)
- [357](https://github.com/EESSI/eessi-bot-software-layer/pull/357) use requests library instead of 'curl' and obtain all comments
- Caspar will retest
### Open PRs(3)
- Check and close any unnecessary PR

## EESSI/software-layer
### Issues(46)
### Open EESSI/software-layer PRs (active)
- [1357](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/1357) {2025.06}[2025b] Python-bundle-PyPI 2025.07
- Blocked by issues with `maturin` on A64FX. How to proceed?
- Bob tried to lower the `maturin` version to what was used in 2025a => didn't solve the issue
- Bob tried lowering the `rust` version to what was used in 2025a => didn't solve the issue
- Bob discussed with his AI friend, but seems to hallucinate a lot :)
- Bob will keep looking into it
- Alternative could be to just create a hook that puts a fake module + LmodError in place for A64FX. Downside is that since this is a pretty fundamental module, it'll mean basically no python packages for 2025b on A64FX until this is fixed.
- [1361](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/1361) {2023.06}[foss/2023a] GROMACS-2023.3-foss-2023a-PLUMED-2.9.0
- Some test failures, comment from Bob: one needs a patch, others might fail inconsistently and a rebuild may fix. @Richard how do you want to proceed?
- Some of these were potentially fixed upstream, but this version (2023.3) may not be recent enough.
- Richard: there is no newer version for GROMACS with Plumed currently
- Lara: one of our consultants is working on newer version of GROMACS with Plumed
- Bob: there is one that at least include the arm patches https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/blob/develop/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GROMACS/GROMACS-2024.4-foss-2023b-PLUMED-2.9.2.eb . Should be in the EasyBuild 5.2.0 release already?
- [1366](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/1366) Rebuild jupyter-server for 2023a to include PATH patch to jupyter-core
- Ready for review/build
- This includes a patch for `jupyter-server` that picks up on a custom env var set by the EasyBuild modules, see https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/19737/changes

- [1332](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/1332) {2023.06}[2023a] acpype v2023.10.27
- Ready to be rebuild, changes were made upstream in EB to fix the issue

### Open EESSI/software-layer PRs(28)
- Check and close any unnecessary PR
### Merged PRs
- Did not check this time

## EESSI/software-layer-scripts
### Issues(9)
### Open EESSI/software-layer-scripts PRs (active)
- [148](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer-scripts/pull/148) Add hook to restore filtered deps for Graphviz
- Should be ready to review / build => Caspar will review
- [149](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer-scripts/pull/149) fix bind mount bug when using proxy
- Caspar will review
### Open EESSI/software-layer-scripts PRs(15)
- Check and close any unnecessary PR
### Merged PRs
- Did not check this time

## Documentation
### Issues(29)
### Open PRs (active)
### Open PRs (12)
- Check and close any unnecessary PR
### Merged PRs
- Did not check this time

## Other topics

- EESSI Happy hours
- Davide: maybe something on Docker-extension he's working on, but maybe later (closer to March, when they will need this for an event anyway)
- Maybe a comparison between 2023.06 and 2025.06
- Bob: maybe something on RISC-V could be interesting

## Next support meeting

- date & time
- February 3 2026: Cancelled, because Caspar is teaching => Handover SURF=>RUG will be done by e-mail
- February 10 2026: next support meeting
- who will attend: at least one person per each of the 6 partners involved in Task 5.4
- SURF: Caspar, Aayush
- UGent: Lara
- RUG: Pedro, Bob
- UiB: Richard
- UB: -
- HPCNow: Arturo, Helena
- Davide, Loris
- who will prepare the meeting? Pedro