Core Minutes 11/25/2003  

Present:   Ursula Berthon, Joanne Bogart,  Toby Burnett,  James Chiang, Johann Cohen-Tanugi/Michael Kuss,    Berrie Giebels,  Navid Golpayegani, Traudl Hansl-Kozanecka, Heather Kelly,   Julie McEnery,  Alex Schlessinger, Tracy Usher

• Trial DC1 run:   (Toby, Heather) DC1-style run failed because job options were not handled properly. A change in basicOptions was not propagated to DC1 parameters. Heather worked around the problem by copying current GlastRelease options to the DC1 set up.  In future DC-specific options will be minimal,  only overriding those in GlastRelease where absolutely necessary.

• GlastRelease tag: (Toby) A new GlastRelease tag is coming soon.  It will be a major release since the interface IFluxSvc of the FluxSvc package has to change. It will include new flux, FluxSvc, idents (to fix gcc 3.2 compilation problem) and xmlGeoDbs (see below).

• ACD geometry fix: (Joanne, Heather, Berrie) The main contributor to the problem Bill discovered last week (side ribbons not covering their assigned gaps) was an offset in the positions of side tiles.  The new xmlGeoDbs tag (v1r15) should be used for background runs (which otherwise are using GlastRelease v3r3p7). 

• File versus FileList: (Traudl) She has encountered a problem when using the mcRootReaderAlg job option mcRootFile, which takes as value single file name in quotes; the process goes into a tight and useless loop. mcRootFileList, which takes a list, functions properly. 

  Action Items 

• Document effect of MC pruning options (Riccardo) (8/5/2003) It's documented in the code; Tracy will look into putting the information in a more accessible place. (9/2/2003)
• Reorganize RootAnalysis package so structure is more standard.(05/13/03)
• Write up, and perhaps present at a future meeting, hints on debugging. (02/18/03)   Some combination of Toby and Tracy will provide something for Windows.(7/22/03) Linux document has been linked to how-to pages. (10/14/2003)
• Overhaul documentation altogether by about November (Heather and ??) (9/2/2003)
• Resolve calibration/timestamp issue. (11/20/02) Online folk have not yet thought about putting timestamp information into EM data, but, thanks to Richard's inquiry, may now do so. (2/25/03) We can probably live without a realistic system for EM, but we will put it on the agenda for the DC1 workshop.(5/6/03) At the DC1 Workshop Steve Ritz  promised to find an authoritative reference for timestamp format and pass it on. (7/17/03) Now that events have "real" timestamps, Joanne needs to reassess situation with Calibration (9/2/2003)
• We need a web page on the workings of the Release Manager (5/6/03) In progress (Navid) (9/2/2003)

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