Navid and others would like to change the tagging convention to something which will be sorted correctly by OS commands like ls. At a minimum this would entail using a fixed number of digits, zero-filled, for each of the three numeric fields. There is some sentiment for replacing r and p as delimiters with punctuation characters, however this has significant repercussions for the Workbook and perhaps also for MRStudio. We should weigh the benefits versus costs carefully.
Tom is starting to regenerate the Earth10 backgrounds and will just do a 1 sec/minute sampling on the two month orbit to get a day's worth. Julie added a pointing episode at the end to make sure there is enough to account for the GRB repoints that have not been included in the orbit file yet.
This will be done with GR v11 vintage code.
(Bryson) The filter "result summary data" (RSD) is an array of data structures transmitted per event that contains a concise record of what each filter (also known as a "handler" in FSW parlance) had to say about the event. The shape of these structures is (or may be) unique to each type of handler, and may evolve over time. Also, the arrangement (ordering) of handlers is configurable and may also change over time. Thus designing a presentation format for delivering the contents of these structures to downstream clients is a thorny problem, since the goal is to decouple the offline client code from changes in the FSW code. JJ also contends that this content is reproducible on the ground (once, as Anders pointed out, that you've verified that the offline implementation of the handlers produces identical results). His (JJ's) priority assignment is implementing the creation and delivery of per-handler statistical summary data (including rejected events), so designing the RSD presentation format is pretty much on hold.
There is one other piece of dynamic information we really should have which, fortunately, is much more straightforward to extract as part of DFI: we need to know which handlers are active and for which nodes. Philip Hart is taking this on, but, longer term, DFI needs a new owner. The original designer and implementor have left the project.
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