Core Minutes 5/4/2004  

Present:   Pol d'Avezac, Ursula Berthon, Joanne Bogart, Anders Borgland, Jim Chiang,  Seth Digel, Richard Dubois, Warren Focke, Marco Frailis, Berrie Giebels, Navid Golpayegani, Traudl Hansl-Kozanecka, Heather Kelly,  Michael Kuss, Matt Langston, Pat Nolan, James Peachey, Leon Rochester, Bob Schaefer, Alex Schlessinger, Tom Stephens, Tracy Usher

• Overview of ongoing work: (Richard) See this chart and further discussion of several items below.

• Pipeline: Dan is aiming to have something usable by the end of the week.

• Release Manager: Alex is in the process of rewriting the Release Manager to provide for several requested features. The useful lifetime of this version should be at least 6 months. The ability to monitor EngineeringModel (as well as GlastRelease and ScienceTools) already exists; let's turn it on. [As of Tuesday afternoon, it is on.] Missing Doxygen documentation, noted by Traudl, may be traceable to the nfs disk failure a while back; Alex will look into it.

• Drop of VC 7.0? Seems to be proceeding all right. People at SLAC have moved to 7.1. Copies have been ordered for everyone at Goddard and are now being distributed.

• Install area: (Traudl) Still waiting on official installation of v1r16 at SLAC. Developers who want to use Traudl's installation should let her know. (Richard pointed out that v1r16 still seems to be a bit unstable; we might want to wait until it settles down.)

  On Jim's request scripts are now also installed and the test package was extended (examples/exInst). The test revealed a problem, which did not exist in CMT v1r14 and was tracked down to the environment variable CMTINSTALLAREA; Traudl has a working solution and is in contact with Christian for a more satisfactory solution.

• Science Tools: (James) He and Yasushi are working on getting ScienceTools converted to the new regime (tip/st_app), starting with EventBin; seems to be going well.

• Installers: (Pat) He has successfully used the free version of InstallAnywhere for ScienceTools; GlastRelease, Externals, CMT, and maybe more are on the to-do list. (Richard) Can it (where "it" may mean the not-free version) be used to create an over-arching stub which presents the user with a list of components which may then be selected (or not) for download? (Pat) He believes it can do the component selection, is less sure whether download can be deferred. (Richard) We don't want to force people to download everything before selection; it's too much.

• News from Údine: (Marco, Riccardo) This page describes work on three projects: MRvcmt, FRED and rdbGui. The current to-do list for MRvcmt should be wrappesd up by the end of the month; let M & R know if you have further requests. Similarly, FRED is about at the polishing-up stage; current to-do list should be complete in about 3 weeks. [For rdbGui status see Flight Integeration/Calibration database interface below.]

• Workbook: Heather has an outline for a GLAST workbook, heavily indebted to the Babar incarnation. It will be passed around for review; then assignments for writing bits of it can be made. Leon, who helped with the Babar workbook, pointed out that the function of a workbook is largely complementary to standard reference documentation: readers are expected to go through it sequentially, doing the exercises as they go, so they quickly gain practical experience.(Richard) We need to get ready for potential hordes of EngineeringModel and DC2 users. (Leon) Maintenance is a big problem with workbooks (or, Richard points out, just about any other form of documentation). Many of the links in the Babar workbook are now broken.

• Eclipse: While working the J2EE wrapper for System Tests Matt has been using eclipse for development in Java. It has many nice features; he's unsure about the state of C++ support. (Tom) He uses it regularly for C++ development. The support for C++ is not as comprehensive as for Java, but still useful. (Richard) A problem with Eclipse is that it doesn't understand CMT; it has its own flavor of build files. (Tom) Eclipse project files are simple; probably wouldn't be hard to generate them.

• Root conversion service: (Ursula) She expects to be able to roll it out at the end of the month. Depending on other commitments, she might not get to relations, the fourth tree [how about The Third Man?]

• Flight Integration:  The weekly run-down:

  • EngineeringModel: (Heather) She made a new tag which will handle arbitrary tower configurations (thanks to a rush bug fix to TkrUtil by Leon).
  • Calibration database interface: (Marco, Riccardo)  There are some screen shots of the gui, including one demonstrating the insert function, at the end of the above-mentioned page. Marco and Riccardo estimate the essential functionality (query, display results, insert) will be implemented in approximately 2 weeks.
  • System tests:  Matt is using parts of JAS for histogramming, starting with overlays and KS tests. Later expect to provide a selection of histogram comparison methods. Meanwhile, Julie is designing new system tests for EngineeringModel. She probably talked it over with be Eduardo at the recent APS meeting.

  Action Items 

• Document effect of MC pruning options (Riccardo) (8/5/2003) It's documented in the code; Tracy will look into putting the information in a more accessible place. (9/2/2003)
• Write up, and perhaps present at a future meeting, hints on debugging. (02/18/03)   Some combination of Toby and Tracy will provide something for Windows.(7/22/03) 
• Overhaul documentation altogether by about November (Heather and ??) (9/2/2003) In progress; not yet done (01/13/04)
• Resolve calibration/timestamp issue. (11/20/02) Online folk have not yet thought about putting timestamp information into EM data, but, thanks to Richard's inquiry, may now do so. (2/25/03) We can probably live without a realistic system for EM, but we will put it on the agenda for the DC1 workshop.(5/6/03) At the DC1 Workshop Steve Ritz  promised to find an authoritative reference for timestamp format and pass it on. (7/17/03) Now that events have "real" timestamps, Joanne needs to reassess situation with Calibration (9/2/2003) Timestamp exists in EM data. Needs to be fetched by Calibration (1/13/04) Put on hold until formats settle down. (3/16/04)

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