Re: Software work - summary report

From: I. G. Bearden (bearden@hehi03.nbi.dk)
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 11:06:52 EDT

  • Next message: Flemming Videbaek: "minor updates to BRAT"

    videbaek wrote:
    
    > To: brahms-dev-l
    >
    > From: FV
    
    Thanks for the update!
    
    >    * The Brat and related applications should be updated regularly
    >      (daily). Konstantin will implement this. The afs /opt/brahms will
    >      be updated for a "current" version. The pro and new will be
    >      handled 'manually' and will correspond to tagged versions. If a
    >      daily update fails e-mail with offending errors will be send to
    >      the dev-l list. Both Linux and Solaris version will be handled
    >      this way.
    >    * Bugs should be reported to the dev-l list. Will not use the
    >      bug-report suite.
    >
    These both sound good.
    
    >    *
    >    * There are some incompatibilities with the new Root version 2.25.
    >      The default setups should be with root 2.24
    >
    I have noticed this, too bad it was after installing the new Root
    Version 2.25/02.  Is there any short term
    desire to remove the incompatabilities?
    
    >    * Of high priority is the fact the event sizes are very large. Lots
    >      of this is caused by MTP1 data (50-60kB), but other contributors
    >      are a) keeping raw unpacked data b) on suppression of empty TDC
    >      channels etc.
    >    * Data objects should be finalized - this in particular to global
    >      detector rdo data, tracking data and PID data. This should be
    >      done through a consensus process.
    >    * We had a discussion on eventnodes vs events. Analysis modules
    >      should always deal with nodes while i/o deals with events. This
    >      could possibly be changed and the overall event header
    >      information made available by the EventManager.
    >    * Kris is making good progress in the re-organization of the brat
    >      directories. The main effort is making new Makefiles and checking
    >      these out. The new structures are updated via scripts, thus the
    >      switchover once a decision day is made can be made smootly.
    >
    Is there any estimate as to when this might occur?  Is the time scale
    short enough that one should hold off on
    updating, or not?
    thanks again for the update,
    Cheers,
    
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