Managing categories

Package categories are used by an automated bot, cms-bot, to notify coordinators of different areas. These are defined in cms-bot/categories.py.

In particular:

• CMSSW_L2: defines a mapping between github users and a given category.
• CMSSW_CATEGORIES: defines a mapping between github categories and packages associated to it.

In order to add a new package, just update the relevant categories in CMSSW_CATEGORIES and do a pull request. A package can belong to multiple categories.

Managing watchers

While github allows you to be notified for changes to a repository, you might want to be notified just for an handful of packages. This can be done by adding yourself as a watcher of a specific packege. This is controlled by the watchers.yaml file. In order to watch a package, add your github username and a list of package names or a regular expression matching the packages you would like to watch.

Quick start

• Main page
• FAQ: CMSSW on Github
• CMS Naming, Coding, And Style Rules
• Proposing changes to CMSSW
• Setting up CMS environment using Singularity (new)
• Python virtual environment in CMSSW (new)
• CMSSW pull request approval workflow
• Collaborating with peers
• Working with CMSSW and UserCode
• Resolving conflicts & porting features
• How to use git through a proxy
• Building external packages (new)

Release Management

• CMSSW release notes
• Building a CMSSW release
• Integration Builds results
• Starting a new release cycle
• Forward ports
• Managing users and categories
• List categories and packages
• List of pending PRs
• Circle of pending PRs
• CMS-bot documentation
• CMS-bot commands

Infrastructure setup

• Monitoring
• Managing secrets with puppet
• Setting up builder machines
• Setting up builder machines [aarch64]
• Setting up builder machines [power8]
• Setting up cmsdev machines