[Halld-offline] sim-recon will be split up; push your changes before it happens on Tuesday

[Mark Ito]

Erratum:

In item (2) of the schedule, the last sentence should be:

   All existing branches in sim-recon will appear in halld_recon.

This is an important point and was mangled in the original.


On 07/13/2018 04:49 PM, Mark Ito wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> We have been discussing the split of the sim-recon repository 
> <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/sim-recon> into two independent 
> repositories for many weeks now. The new repositories will be called 
> halld_sim <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_sim> and halld_recon 
> <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/sim-recon> (these links are only to 
> test versions of the new repositories). After the split, changes to 
> sim-recon will no longer be allowed. All new development will go to 
> the new repositories.
>
> *If you would like your sim-recon code to be included in the new 
> repositories, you need to push your changes to the sim-recon 
> repository at GitHub before the split is performed, close-of-business, 
> Tuesday, July 17.*
>
> More detail appears in the minutes of today's offline software meeting 
> <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_July_13,_2018#Minutes> 
> and is reproduced here:
>
> To transition from sim-recon (unified system) to halld_sim and 
> halld_recon (split system), we will have to change several things at 
> the same time (or nearly the same time). We agreed on the following 
> schedule.
>
>  1. Early Monday, July 16: deploy the new version of build_scripts as
>     the default at JLab. This version supports both the unified and
>     split systems and should require no changes by users.
>  2. Close of business, Tuesday, July 17: deadline for pushes to the
>     unified system. Changes not committed and pushed to the unified
>     system will not make it to the split system. Also note that for
>     the halld_sim directories, they must appear on the master branch
>     as well. All existing from sim-recon will appear in halld_recon.
>  3. Early morning Wednesday, July 18: default configuration at JLab
>     changes to split system.
>
> For more background, see the minutes of the May 18 
> <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_May_18,_2018#Splitting_up_sim-recon_into_sim_and_recon>, 
> June 1 
> <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_June_1,_2018#Splitting_up_sim-recon_into_sim_and_recon>, 
> June 15 
> <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_June_15,_2018#Splitting_up_sim-recon_into_sim_and_recon>, 
> and June 29 
> <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_June_29,_2018#Splitting_up_Sim-Recon> 
> Offline Software Meetings.
>
>   -- Mark
>
> -- 
> Mark Ito,marki at jlab.org, (757)269-5295
>
>
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Mark Ito, marki at jlab.org, (757)269-5295

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