Core Minutes 8/03/2004  

Present:    Joanne Bogart,  Anders Borgland, Toby Burnett,  David Chamont, Richard Dubois, Zachary Fewtrell, Warren Focke, Marco Frailis, Riccardo Giannitrapani, Berrie Giebels, Navid Golpayegani, Traudl Hansl-Kozanecka, Heather Kelly,  Matt Langston, Pat Nolan, Chuck Patterson, James Peachey, Leon Rochester,  Tom Stephens, Tracy Usher

• Announcements: (Richard)
  • Integration Readiness Review has been delayed a month (was to have been today)
  • Science Operations Center Review is tomorrow
  • President of INFN is visiting SLAC, will be entertained by members of GLAST (including Richard) on Wednesday
  • Heather will be at SLAC Monday and Tuesday next week.
• Binary distribution: (Navid) No significant change from last week: binary distribution of externals for Linux is working; extension to handle all binaries is not difficult. Windows version is waiting on RM Windows build.
• Gaudi binaries: (Toby, Richard) There has been some question whether the proper binary distribution version of Gaudi is available. Status is: it does exist for Linux and Navid's installer uses it.  There is no separate binary for Windows, but it is incorporated in the full externals tarball for Windows.

• Promotions: (Toby) There are many package versions in LATEST only.  Any reason not to promote them all? Test programs for HepRepSvc and HepRepXml are ok now. (Riccardo) Problem was tracked down by Anders and is now fixed.

• ROOT header info: (David) Expects to commit a first version by tomorrow.

• User workbook: (Heather) Chuck is doing a great job. He's worked on the "getting started" part (ssh and similar matters) and has been documenting ROOT classes. Documentation for ntuple may be next, ideally generated from or connected to source in CVS. She's hoping for a partial unveiling some time this month.

Flight integration news for the week:

• EngineeringModel: (Heather) It's clear we won't have a final set of packages for August 4th. She will be polling concerned parties to find out exactly what will be available and when.
• Cal Response Service: (Zach) The new Cal Response Service is approximately on schedule. Expect a first release mid-month, fully tested version by the end of the month.  He has a header file describing the interface and has determined how to get information he needs from CalibSvc. Next step is to create a consistent (same validity interval) set of calibration entries.
• Pipeline: (Richard for Dan) Since time pressure has been relieved somewhat, Dan is taking the opportunity to clean up some hastily-written code.
• CalibGenTkr: (Leon) Has had trouble getting it to compile on Linux. Is there a difference in compiled ROOT on Windows and Linux that could account for it?  (Heather) doesn't think so. (Leon) Need some way to get RM to build CalibGenTkr.  (General) Probably don't want a separate EngineeringModel LATEST since EM often needs old tags of some packages. We could add CalibGenTkr (and similar packages) to GlastRelease.  Or it could just be added to the list of LATEST packages independently, as is the case for detCheck.
• Calibration and timestamps: (Joanne) Anyone using private algorithms to set time for CalibDataSvc is urged to use the standard method, which is entirely internal to CalibSvc, instead. Latest tag of CalibSvc can fetch timestamps from all data sources or (as has been the case for a long time) use fake clock, depending on job option settings. See CalibSvc mainpage.  (Richard, Toby) The job options parameter for start time entry is currently in units of seconds since Jan 1, 2001, could be a bit awkward to use.  Toby is working on a nicer alternative.
• GRITS: (Richard for mute Matt) Read all about GRITS on its wiki page.

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