Core Minutes 12/6/2005
Present: Joanne Bogart, Anders Borgland, Philippe Bruel, Toby Burnett,
David Chamont, Jim Chiang, Johann Cohen-Tanugi,
Seth Digel, Richard Dubois, Dan Flath, Warren Focke,
Riccardo Giannitrapani,
Tom Glanzman, Navid Golpayegani,
Heather Kelly, Julie McEnery, Chuck Patterson,
Igor Pavlin, James Peachey, Leon Rochester,
Tracy Usher
- Audit of Science Data Stream: (Heather)
Details of what to expect and how it relates to our current TDS representation
are laid out in this
Confluence page. Highlights include
- Run ids Do we just use the Ground Id? Not 100% unique.
- Time Can we standardize on the timestamp stored in the Event Header?
We almost have already. When do we deal with drift?
- Pointing histories and livetime This information is not in
the form and place we're used to; we have to decide when and by what
it gets processed.
- Trigger words Might want to reserve a word just for the
condition summary, rather than the hybrid we have now consisting of
condition summary in upper bits, computed trigger in lower.
Visual Studio 5 Exploration: (Tracy)
You can download the C++ express edition for free, which is what he
started with. It has almost everything you want. SLAC does
have a license for the whole enchilada.
Compiler is much more
standards-compliant, hence we tend to get lots more warnings.
Migration will not be problem-free, but he's hopeful we won't
have to recompile everything.
(Toby) CMT converts solutions files correctly (new ones have same
format, but a few different values), but MRvcmt chokes. We'll need
to recompile ROOT.
- Beamtest status: (Leon) See his
report, to be
given at the immediately following Beam Test meeting. Heather is working
on putting together a new version of G4 with additional libraries; this
might go faster if she weren't seriously overbooked. Toby will provide
ability to take a multiple-particle list and rotate into frame of detector.
Tracy has a version of G4Generator which can handle multiple input particles;
will look into effects on downstream software. Work on adding tiles to
the geometry model has uncovered a possible problem in HepRepSvc or maybe
detModel concerning rotations.
- RM status:
(Navid)
- GlastPolicy upgrade, lib directory This has been up and
running in LATEST for some time. Could promote to HEAD
- Python support Jim wants a way for CMT to build bin
scripts. It's in progress, but not trivial.
- Pfiles Is in LATEST; should have further testing.
- Branching off release
There was a misunderstanding, now cleared up, about what this entails.
Navid will in the very short term make branches of RootIo and
AnalysisNtuple off of GR v7r3p1 for Heather and Leon, resp. He will
will also write a script which makes branch tags for all package versions
belonging to a particular checkout package release.
New Confluence: (from Tony)
I won't be able to make the core meeting today. Could one of you mention
[sorry, Tony; none of us did] that as part of our plan to move Jira and
Confluence to the new super fast unix servers I have
set
up a version of the new confluence 2.0.2.
This contains a snapshot of SLAC confluence as of Friday for evaluation
purposes You are welcome to try out new features, but note: Any changes
made here will be lost!!!!
Major new features:
- WYSYWIG editor as (optional) alternative to hand-editing wiki markup
- Ability to add keywords (labels) to pages
Read more about it at the
vendor's site.
I'm interested in any feedback to help evaluate if this new version is stable enough to switch to.
J. Bogart, Last Modified:
01-Jun-2010 15:45:36 -0700
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