Maintain or deprecate modules

[effigies]

This issue will be used to discuss whether to continue maintenance of modules for TACC and Sherlock. We may have external users depending on them, so if we want to discontinue maintenance, we should make a release that emits a warning that people should stop loading them and do something else instead.

Module	Our version	Latest version	Plan
AFNI	17.0.09	22.1.14	Deprecate, recommend using Sherlock-maintained module
Anaconda	5.0.0-py36	Does not matter	Drop in favor of $HOME/miniconda
ANTs	2.1.0.post710-g4d580	2.4.0	Deprecate, recommend using Sherlock-maintained module
c3d	1.1.0	1.3.0	Deprecate, recommend using miniconda + conda-forge
crnenv			Deprecate, no recommendations
freesurfer	6.0.0	7.2.2	Deprecate, recommend using Sherlock-maintained module
fsl	5.0.9	6.0.5	Deprecate, recommend using Sherlock-maintained module
git-annex	6.20170818	10.20220624	Deprecate, recommend using miniconda + conda-forge
gsl (GNU Scientific Library)	2.3	2.7	Deprecate, recommend using miniconda + conda-forge
jq	1.5	1.6	Deprecate, recommend using Sherlock-maintained module
launcher	3.1.0	3.7	Keep for now
nodejs	4.4.7	18	Deprecate, recommend using singularity containers for Node tools

[effigies]

Some notes:

• c3d is published to conda-forge, drop for conda?
• Let's rethink crnenv; worth a separate issue
• Who is using GSL? What's the purpose of having this module at all?
• jq seems probably fine... it's just a utility knife
• Is TACC now maintaining a launcher module themselves?
• I would recommend dropping NodeJS. 4.4.7 is probably unusably old. Trying to keep up with even NodeJS LTS releases seems like a chore, but we could do that...

[poldrack]

TACC has a "launcher" but it's very different from ours, which provides a single command line interface that creates and launches the slurm script.

[emdupre]

Do we know who is using these modules, and could we add a third strategy of delegating maintenance to them ? Ideally with a deprecation cycle to rename the module set from Poldrack to something more generic.

[poldrack]

Agreed re: renaming to remove the lab name

[effigies]

Updated all plans with today's decision.