Merge branch 'develop' into develop

Author: vkarak

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Generic Unittests and Coverage Report
       if:  matrix.python-version == '3.8'
       run: |
-        pip install codecov
+        python -m pip install coverage
         coverage run --source=reframe ./test_reframe.py
         coverage report -m
     - name: Upload Coverage to Codecov

README.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 ![PyPI - Python Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/reframe-hpc)
 [![Downloads](https://pepy.tech/badge/reframe-hpc)](https://pepy.tech/project/reframe-hpc)
 [![Downloads](https://pepy.tech/badge/reframe-hpc/month)](https://pepy.tech/project/reframe-hpc)<br/>
-[![Slack](https://reframe-slack.herokuapp.com/badge.svg)](https://reframe-slack.herokuapp.com/)<br/>
+[![Slack](https://badgen.net/badge/icon/slack?icon=slack&label)](https://join.slack.com/t/reframetalk/shared_invite/zt-1tar8s71w-At0tolJ~~zxT2oG_2Ly9sw)
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-BSD%203--Clause-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause)
 [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/89384186.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/89384186)<br/>
 [![Twitter Follow](https://img.shields.io/twitter/follow/ReFrameHPC?style=social)](https://twitter.com/ReFrameHPC)
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ You can get in contact with the ReFrame community in the following ways:
 
 ### Slack
 
-Please join the community's [Slack channel](https://reframe-slack.herokuapp.com) for keeping up with the latest news about ReFrame, posting questions and, generally getting in touch with other users and the developers.
+Please join the community's [Slack channel](https://join.slack.com/t/reframetalk/shared_invite/zt-1tar8s71w-At0tolJ~~zxT2oG_2Ly9sw) for keeping up with the latest news about ReFrame, posting questions and, generally getting in touch with other users and the developers.
 
 ## Contributing back
 

requirements.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 archspec==0.2.0
 argcomplete==3.0.5
-coverage==6.2; python_version < '3.7'
-coverage==7.2.2; python_version >= '3.7'
 importlib_metadata==4.0.1; python_version < '3.8'
 jsonschema==3.2.0
 lxml==4.9.2