Core Minutes 17 March 2009

Core Minutes 3/17/2009

Present: Joanne Bogart, Anders Borgland, Philippe Bruel, Emmanuel Cephas, Jim Chiang, Richard Dubois, Warren Focke, Tom Glanzman, Heather Kelly, Chuck Patterson, Tracy Usher, John Vernaleo

ScienceTools: Jim presented the report.
FSSC Report: (John) Working on v9r10. Ultimately aiming for a release in August when LAT data goes public. Don't yet know what version of ScienceTools it will be based on, but it will be something beyond v9r10.
GlastRelease: (Richard) There will be a meeting at 9:30 today on Pass 7 reprocessing. See this proposal.

(Heather)GR v17r8 will include a couple overlay-related updates and final updates for the new LDF. Next she'll work on putting a header in merit files. We already have such a thing in full ROOT files including, among other things, output of cmt show uses. The new merit header will include similar information plus a version id so it will be easier to track when new variables have been added, etc. This is different from relevant package versions since a package may change version without affecting the output format. She doesn't think adding the new merit header to require that much work. (Joanne) What do we do about cmt show uses when we move to SCons? (Heather) TBD.

(Tracy) Overlay packages were updated yesterday. A change was made so that, if a simulated event doesn't interact with the LAT, nothing is overlaid. Changes are going in today to add more variables to AnalysisNtuple.

(Tracy) GlastClassify had been updated to work for Pass 7, however this version does not work for Pass 6. We have reverted to previous for now.
Documentation: (Chuck) sends this report:

A draft of the "GLEAM Application: Processing Real Data" is now available for review, comments, corrections, additions.... Please remember that the purpose of this page is to provide the application context for the GlastRelease packages and links to the Doxygen documents as appropriate. The intended audience is a person new to the project coming on board a few years from now and asked to work on a piece of code. The simulation packages will be discussed in a follow-on project.

Beyond that, I'm currently working on documenting the pylikelihood references/parameters, and I'm making some progress on the pictures taken at the collaboration meeting in Hiroshima.
Core talk:
- SCons (Heather)
  - Navid will set up email notification for failed SCons builds (ScienceTools only). We're seeing build errors due to package owner inattention to SCons needs.
  - We'll trigger an SCons build of CHS soon (in particular, well before Bryson leaves) to make sure it all is working correctly.
  - Navid has moved SCons builds to u35. CMT builds are still on u30, which is now only about 70% full.
  See also notes from last week's SCons meeting.
- SCons/Windows and GoGui (Joanne) Discovered that Xerces provides a Visual Studio 8.0 build of release 2.8.0. We're using 2.7.0 but 2.8.0 is backwards compatible. Furthermore the 8.0 library is compatible with Studio 9.0 so my toy development environment has made a significant leap towards reality: it now has two packages (facilities and xmlBase), one of which is dependent on an external library. So far everything that was working with one package continues to work with two.
  
  Recent Windows work has revealed the need for some GoGui upgrades so I'll be taking a small vacation from Windows; expect to return to the salt mines later this week.
  
  See the Windows log and To do list for too much detail on all of the above.
- Externals (Emmanuel) Fred runs as a stand-alone on both RHEL3 and RHEL4 but past experience has shown this does not necessarily imply that it works from within Gleam. He is working on verifying this now, starting with GlastRelease v15r5, the new fox external library, and various GR packages needing to be rebuilt for this environment. Currently he's run into a problem when running test_Gleam which he would like to resolve before attempting Gleam. (Leon) suggests posting the log from an attempted test_Gleam run to helpsoftlist.
  
  He wrote to Riccardo G. to find out if he's had any experience with Fred on Mac's or 64-bit linux. No response yet.

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