Core Minutes 8/4/2009

• ScienceTools: (Jim) Latest release is v9r15p4. He had to trigger the CMT build by hand this morning.

• FSSC: (Eric) Getting ready for public release in a couple weeks; not much else to report.

• Documentation: (Chuck) sends the following:

  Working on the pyLikelihood tutorial is nearing completion, and I expect to post it to the web this week. However, it will not be linked in to the WB until subject matter experts have had a chance to review it. Nicola is going to verify the results this afternoon, to make sure that they're consistent with the latest Standard Analysis recommendations. I also still have to verify that the SCons environmental variables work as expected. Other than that, it's primarily a matter of finalizing the format and layout.

  Next up will be incorporating Masa's updates to the Pulsar tools and the August Newsletter.

• GR status: (Heather) There is a new tag along the main branch: v17r33p1. (Anders) The v17r33 series is pass 7.1, incorporating some of Bill's work. There also is a new tag along an old branch which fixes a bug in L1 TOT processing. We will use it to reprocess a few months worth of data to see what the effect is on the photon classification.

  (Anders) requests that build of app dumpEvent (in lsfData) be re-instituted. (Heather) It was disabled in the interest of getting the new LDF in. Now that that's done, the app can be re-enabled.

• Pass 6 reprocessing: (Tom) Various problems have been resolved; we're now about ready to push the button to rebuild FT1 and friends. See details in Confluence.

• Core Week Summary (Heather) The focus was on SCons:

  • Various Windows issues and bugs were addressed during the week. We are now about ready to set up a proper SCons environment on the UW terminal server for ScienceTools.
  • SCons for GR will, to begin with, focus on Windows 7.1 (as well as Linux and Mac) where externals are not an issue. Joanne will be updating SConscripts [and xxxLib.py files] this week to be in line with the latest practice.
  • The new SCons-style tagging convention was put into effect last Tuesday. Various small problems surfaced and have been addressed.
  • There was a meeting with David Chamont on the skimmer. David will have more time than usual for us over the next few weeks while much of France is on vacation.
  • There is one RHEL5 machine in the publicly-available pool at SLAC. We have put in a request to SCCS to convert a couple RHEL3 machines to RHEL5.
  • There was a discussion with Tony Johnson about increasing use of WIRED. Leon now has the new version of Fred working on his machine (and discovered a couple necessary tweaks along the way).
  • (Liz) One of the Sys tests, AllGammaOverlay, is failing because it can't initialize FluxSvc. It's not clear why since other tests are able to do this successfully. She's emailed others who might have some thoughts on the subject.
  • (Joanne) A new version of stag, 0.2.0, is available in ftp space for Linux, Mac and Windows. Changes are slight: clearer error and help output, new -verbose option.

previous

minutes index

J. Bogart, Last Modified: 01-Jun-2010 15:46:02 -0700