Core Minutes 7/11/2006
Present: Joanne Bogart,
Toby Burnett, David Chamont, Jim Chiang,
Richard Dubois,
Tom Glanzman, Navid Golpayegani, Heather Kelly,
Michael Kuss, Bryson Lee, Francesco Longo, Chuck Patterson,
Igor Pavlin, Leon Rochester
- Release Manager issues:
General (Toby) is eager for support for test packages contained in the packages
they are intended to test (see e.g. test_FluxSvc) and also reminds us
of the proposal for a way to publicly test "alpha" development packages
which was tabled a couple months ago. (Navid) RM can handle test_FluxSvc
properly except for checkout failures. A temporary work-around is to
tell RM to ignore checkout failures, but this will make the Checkout
column useless. (Richard) For all packages, or only for test packages? (Navid)
Not clear; he has to take a look at the code.
Windows (Jim ) has run into an RM-only build problem; the
build succeeds on glast-ts. Mysteriously, a static class variable is
not being found. (Richard) has recently poked SCS for an update on the
upgrades they are supposed to do for our Windows servers.
- DataServer ROOT backend:
(David) is working on a rewrite: clean-up plus some new features.
He is finishing up testing the former and expects to get the new
features done before he goes on vacation at the end of next week.
- Beamtest: (Richard) You can see where
we are in this schedule. The next 2-3 weeks
will be busy for some.
- Recon Joanne has finished up calibration infrastructure for
ancillary data and
Nicola has implemented pedestal subtraction. It's ok for tagger data, not
yet for qdc,
but he expects to track down the problem soon. There is a new package,
calibGenANC, to generate calibration files
for the ancillary detectors.
- I/O (Heather) She completed work on digis before her vacation.
Recon I/O is now well in hand; new tags supporting it should be available
by the end of the day. That leaves LdfConverter and Socket Gleam. LdfConverter
will be her next focus; it should be straightforward to borrow relevant
pieces of the old binary-file-reading code.
- Pipeline (Richard) Warren has implemented a first version.
Next step is for Chuck to document it so shiftees can keep an eye
on it.
- Simulation (Francesco)
- He found and fixed a small bug in
generation. It only would manifest itself in certain job configurations, those
with no energy spread in the beam, so did not affect
Pipeline runs to date.
- He is working on including the tagger in the set-up geometry.
The tagger description comes from work of S. Brez, L. Latronico and G. Spandre.
- He is adding synchrotron radiation to the physics list
- Classification trees: (Richard for Tracy)
Bill has reworked background analysis, using new Insightful Miner features,
so Tracy has to play catch-up. He had gotten so far as to send something
to Bill to check out. Bill claims it doesn't do the job, but it seems
likely there has been some miscommunication or other pilot error somewhere
which needs to be understood before any other sort of debugging. By the
time you read this, Tracy will be on his way to the Carribbean.
(Leon) pointed out that, if someone else is to pick this up in
Tracy's absence, the work, up till now just on Tracy's laptop,
needs to be committed to CVS.
Coming Soon! Service Challenges
J. Bogart, Last Modified:
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