Core Minutes 5/18/2010
Core Minutes 5/18/2010ScienceTools: (Jim) There was a bug fix in Likelihood. See the Science Tools blog in Confluence for the latest news.
CMT builds (Jim) Recent changes Toby made to astro have broken ScienceTools builds. The changes apparently have to do with support for VC 9.0. [Late update: actually, Toby's changes had nothing to do with it. The problem, as Jim later discovered, was that not all of the astro got tagged with the CMT-style tag. We have seen this behavior before; the protocol for generating the CMT-style tag from the SCons tag is known to be flaky. Tom S. had recently implemented a patch but it is apparently not 100% effective. ed.]
(Heather) Windows builds are not working at all for CMT. The last good build is from May 12th.
FSSC: (John, Eric) They're making the necessary changes on their end to handle dual ingest.
For the next tag they'll start testing Scientific Linux binaries on Ubuntu and Fedora (but have no plans to distribute binary releases built on those platforms) and will attempt to address any problems that come up. In the future they may try to ensure that users can build the tools themselves on those platforms from source. [thanks to John for addional information and clarification. ed.]
Documentation: (Chuck) has nothing to report concerning Workbook. (Richard) Probably because he's been working on getting out the next Newsletter.
Pass 7: (Richard) CTBCore and friends continue to be a hot top for C&A . Sasha wants to introduce new CAL calibrations which Anders would then like to use to reprocess the LEO limb data.
Pass8: (Tracy) Most activity is geared towards the upcoming Pass8 workshop in Pisa. There will be a daily morning meeting to lay out the rest of the day, then working group meetings and finally tag-up sessions around 5 PM (so 8 AM PDT). Most likely the daily final sessions (and no others) will be EVOed. (Leon) Presentations will be posted.
(Heather) is putting together a special artisanal tag; see details in Core talk below.
(Leon) Tracy managed to find a fix the remaining memory leak. It was happening only on Linux, due to a difference in the way Standard Template Library clear is implemented on different OSes.
Core talk:
Core Week (Heather) The dates are Thursday, July 15, through Wednesday, July 21, spanning a weekend. That allows everyone who is interested in attending to be there for at least a couple days.
GR versions (Heather) There is a new GlastRelease v18r5p1 (GlastRelease-18-05-01) which includes an update to TkrTrack.h to include an additional bit definition. There are also some additional tags that were included due to recent updates to CalRecon. This tag has been built for RHEL4 by the CMT RM, unfortunately there is currently a problem with the windows RM builds. This tag has been built by hand on UW TS for use by Bill and company in preparation for the Pass 8 meeting next week in Pisa.
Yet Another Platform (Heather) Snow leopard has been installed on mac02. She has requested another AFS volume for snow leopard externals; no word back yet from the Computer Center.
ROOT 5.26 and L1 (Heather) Warren tried it out and ran into a snag with one application. Heather will look into it with him when she has more information about the failure.
flux (Heather) You could say the situation is still in a state of flux. There is some disagreement about whether the fix has actually fixed the problem.
u09 at 97% full (Heather) u09 is used for Doxygen output and CMT builds which gives her some ideas for clean-up. If necessary, Doxygen output could be moved elsewhere.
SCons topics (Tom) apparently broke Windows builds in the process of trying to create source and other distributions which would be accessible from Installer. New LATEST builds fail instantly, in the checkout step.
He's also looking into an enhancement to the deleteBuild script, allowing one to retrigger (Heather) which was always the intent.
redhat5 32-bit optimized A problem has cropped up with these ST builds. gtobssim fails with a floating point exception. The debug build doesn't have this problem. Tom, who has a 32-bit rhel5 machine, has volunteered to look into it.
obf (Heather) asked JJ and Gregg what was happening with obf a week and a half ago. No response yet.
Gaudi (Heather) has encountered yet another roadblock, but she's hopeful it's only a minor one. A workaround should be coming soon.
(Joanne) has no SCons news to speak of. Updating workbook documentation is still her top SCons priority and, since Chuck is about to go on vacation, she better do something about it soon.
(Heather) Tom has raised the issue of saving (or not) HEAD builds. Currently we keep only the last 20 LATEST builds, but there is no limit for HEAD. This is because occasionally one is used for production-like purposes (not anything as formal as L1 processing, but something we might want to keep track of and/or reproduce). We could
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