Mark Grondona

> I think the trickier bit in test is assigning properties to resources since a) the hostnames are all the same for test brokers so the TOML method that keys...

The black formatter is pulled in by `pip` before docker-run-checks in travis, and is installed with `--upgrade` so that the latest version is always run. Installing into the docker image...

> It could be another "flavor" alongside bionic and centos7 Just to save space, it should probably be built on top of one of the images that already contains other...

I'm guessing that development tools like `black` `pylint` `gdb` `strace` etc would be valuable for people using the container for development (e.g. on a mac)

Thanks! Note that @adammoody's symptom on another system is that the MPI application segfaults. I haven't been able to reproduce this, but that issue is supposedly with mvapich2. Edit: Meant...

This one is less clear to me. Wouldn't users want to set some `OMPI_MCA_*` variables in the environment of their batch job and expect that they would be set for...

Yeah, unfortunately the plugins are kind of like configuration (they can be modified by sites) and the set of sanitized environment variables is currently compiled into the broker. I wonder...

Oh that's such a good thought I wonder why we didn't think of it before!

I think this will work for now while we figure out a better way to do it (perhaps an addition to the shell API along with a Lua interface for...

I looked into switching to spack to manage dependencies over the weekend, and ran into some issues, which may not actually be showstoppers, but makes switching to spack a bit...