[Halld-offline] Software Meeting Minutes, February 18, 2020

[Mark Ito]

Folks,

Please find the minutes here 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Gluex_Software_Meeting,_February_18,_2020#Minutes> 
and below.

   -- Mark


    Gluex Software Meeting, February 18, 2020, Minutes

Present:

  * *CMU: * Naomi Jarvis
  * *FSU: * Edmundo Barriga, Sean Dobbs
  * *JLab: * Alex Austregesilo, Mark Ito (chair), Igal Jaegle, David
    Lawrence, Simon Taylor, Beni Zihlmann

There is a recording of his meeting <https://bluejeans.com/s/2iPWl/> on 
the BlueJeans site. Use your JLab credentials to access it.


      Announcements

 1. Beni enjoyed the cookies he received from Naomi.
 2. New version set: version_4.15.0.xml
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2020-February/003901.html>
    This version set contains the fix from Alex to picking the correct
    RF bucket in the analysis library. Alex reports that there may be
    room for improvement in the algorithm.
 3. Reconstruction-Launch-Compatible Version Sets for halld_sim 4.13.0
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2020-February/003906.html>
    These go along with the version set in the previous announcement.
 4. Deprecating DIST in favor of HALLD_VERSIONS for version.xml files
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2020-February/003902.html>
    The location of our version.xml files is moving.


      Review of Minutes from the Last Software Meeting

We reviewed the minutes from the meeting on February 4 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Software_Meeting,_February_4,_2020#Minutes>. 


Mark reminded us that all of our old files on the volatile disk will 
disappear on March 4.


      Review of recent issues and pull requests

  * Igal reported a problem he has seen with HDGeant4 and simulation of
    data with the old TOF geometry. He will create an issue on the
    HDGeant4 GitHub site.
  * Mark outlined some of the details of the plan to upgrade to CCDB
    2.0. See his notes
    <https://markito3.wordpress.com/2020/02/11/rolling-out-ccdb-2-0/> on
    the discussion with Dmitry Romanov.
  * Naomi proposes deleting tables that have never been used
    <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/ccdb/issues/65> when we transition
    to CCDB 2.0. Indeed this can be done if they have never been used.
  * Many of the issues on the RCDB GitHub page
    <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/RCDB/issues?q=is%3Aissue> have to
    do with missing or incorrect constants in the database. Mark will
    submit an issue asking for guidance on how we can maintain data
    integrity independent of Dmitry.


      Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List

We noticed that Dakota Christian asked for help with problems (here 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gluex-software/JMiKQUpoAfI> and 
here 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gluex-software/zK-5BfonkhQ>) 
with Monte Carlo jobs on the farm last December. Mark will follow up 
with him on the issue.


      Action Item Review

 1. Submit an HDGeant4 issue on TOF backward compatibility. (Igal)
 2. Submit an RCDB issue on data maintenance self-help. (Mark)
 3. Follow up with Dakota on his simulation issue. (Mark)

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