Present: Heather, Joanne, Karl, Leon, Richard, Toby, Tracy
Core Report: (Toby) See Toby's writeup. The discussion mostly concerned infrastructure issues
Karl's automatic build script writes error output to a web page (follow the link to see what it looks like), which will only work if the user has write access to our unix web space. The facility is intended for developers who normally would have such access.
A "good" build on unix creates large numbers of warning messages. Many of them are clearly harmless, but they do still clutter up the output, making real problems more difficult to find. Some can be eliminated by fixing code. Other strategies include looking into gcc compile options or writing a filter which would throw away messages known to be harmless. Karl suggests this is something one of the new students (see below) might work on.
New Recruits: (Richard) We have hired 3 Stanford masters students (in CS or similar fields) who will be working 20 hours/week for us. They should be starting within a few days. Richard and Karl are in the midst of interviewing for a regular full-time position; they have a couple more people to see. Probably they will be ready to offer the job to someone by the end of the week At least one attractive candidate has already emerged who would be able to start immediately.
Post-PDR Focus: (Richard) We need to be putting resources into integrating detModel with Gismo, G4 (including generating proper hits output) and Recon. Joanne (with a little help from her friends) might be a reasonable candidate to start on the detModel-Gismo project.
Messy Geometry: (Joanne) See this description of options for handling some unruly volumes. Consensus was to proceed with the current strategy (breaking actual single volumes into artificial pieces as needed).
New G4: (Richard) There has been a request that we upgrade to a newer version of Geant4. Heather can perhaps do it this time, but in the longer term we hope the Italians will pick up this bit of maintenance.
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