To Do List for Major Stability Release

[tomeichlersmith]

Manual Testing

Double checking functionality in the environments I want to promise to support.

In Ubuntu VM

• apptainer - CI checks non-interactive, double-checked GUI in VM
• podman - have Linux Mint Laptop with podman 3.4.4, working well
• docker - have Linux Mint computer with docker 27.0.3, working well
• singularityCE - CI checks non-interactive, double-checked GUI in VM

On Remote Clusters (mostly RHEL)

Making sure to check for GUI access over SSH and then into container.

• apptainer
  • everything but X11 forwarding (apptainer 1.3.2 on Rocky 8)
  • everything but X11 forwarding (apptainer 1.2.5 on RHEL 8)
• podman? (probably won't work? might work with xeyes downloaded from internet but wasn't working with CVMFS podman store)
  • Failed on SLAC's S3DF (RHEL 8, podman 4.1.1) due to "insufficient UIDs or GIDs", I think this is an issue with SLAC's configuration of podman and, since they have apptainer which is working, I'm not going to worry about it.

So, it looks like X11 forwading over SSH and then into container is not working out-of-the-box like I expected. I'm not going to prevent that from a major stability release since it is a small feature that I hope is not used often.

Other To Dos

• Read through of documentation
• Double-check config file specification in denv-config manual
• Add stability promise a la https://just.systems/man/en/chapter_9.html