Core Minutes 1/11/2005  

Present:    Joanne Bogart, Anders Borgland, Toby Burnett, James Chiang, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Seth Digel, Richard Dubois, Warren Focke, Riccardo Giannitrapani, Berrie Giebels, Navid Golpayegani, Tony Johnson, Heather Kelly, Michael Kuss, Matt Langston, Chuck Patterson, Leon Rochester, Tracy Usher

• Root 4: (Heather) It's looking good! There is one small remaining glitch involving calibRootData that should be easy to fix. She tested reading and writing in various combinations and compatibility looks ok. There is a non-fatal complaint in one circumstance (reading with new ROOT certain files written with old, Linux only), but this is not a reason to wait. See more detail on the ROOT 4.02.00 Checklist page.
• Pipeline: (Richard) Some problems having to do with job submission to the right (no AFS access needed) queue have been fixed. Pipeline (manager??) is now running at 1 minute intervals. Dan will re-establish a test at each stage for output of previous stage. Next task after that will be to get archive going. Meanwhile Matt has been working on an update to the frontend, hopes to finish it off this afternoon. It will make it easier to find current runs in the rather long list.
• FRED: (Riccardo) FRED now has a working button! For details on all recent FRED developments (which tag of what to use, explanation of a couple small oddities, etc.) see Riccardo's comprehensive update page.
• New RM: (Navid) He continues to work on the Processor. Windows LSF batch is working — to a degree. It is possible to submit jobs from Linux to it; it's not always possible to find the log file. (Richard) Jim has put together a stripped-down Release Builder on the Terminal Server which can build a single release upon demand, though without convenient access to log files, etc., using MRcmt.

  Recent GlastRelease LATEST builds, starting yesterday afternoon, have lots of compile failures. This is probably due to a latest (in time) tag for Event, v9r13p1gr4, being picked up. Many package versions in LATEST depend on features of Event v10r*. After the meeting Navid described the algorithm RM uses to decide which tags to include in a LATEST build:

  The way the RM picks up tags for LATEST is pretty much the same as the old RM with a small change for branch tags. Currently the RM looks at all tags for each package and sorts them in the order of tagging. It then goes through that list and depending if this is a compile for ST, GR, or EM it removes a few tags. Removal is as follows.

  Any tags that don't follow vXrYpZ(gr|st|em)W rule are removed Now if the compile is a ScienceTools compile it looks at the gr|st|em part and removes all tags that have 'gr' or 'em'. Same goes for GR (remove 'st' and 'em')... From this trimmed list the latest tag will be used for LATEST builds.

  Discussion among interested parties will continue offline.

  Several additional RM features were requested, such as that a failed checkout be marked as a failure. [Reminder from last time: requests for further enhancements should take the form of JIRA issues.]

• Data Handling/System Tests: (Tony J.) Plots are now in. Work to add statistics comparisons is in progress. Started to integrate with Matt's sign-in service. They hope to have all this ready to go sometime today.

∫ Flight(w, ..) dw

• Tower A: (Richard) It will be shipped Friday, probably arriving Friday afternoon. First order of business will be to complete Tracker testing. This may involve Eduardo & Co. (and SAS software). Luca should be arriving around the same time, perhaps over the weekend.
• EM tag prospects: (Heather) She would like to make a new tag soon, maybe tomorrow, to pick up various bug fixes by Leon, perhaps a new version of CalibGenCal, and, ideally, the new ROOT.

Coming Soon

• Data Handling Meeting at SLAC: Will take place Thursday and Friday of this week at SLAC; see the agenda. Roughly speaking, mornings will be used for articulating requests; afternoons for figuring out how to implement them. Julie, Navid and Heather will be in town.

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