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    <p>Folks,</p>
    <p>Please find the minutes <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Gluex_Software_Meeting,_February_18,_2020#Minutes">here</a>
      and below.</p>
    <p>  -- Mark</p>
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          <h2 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en"><span
              dir="auto">Gluex Software Meeting, February 18, 2020, </span><span
              class="mw-headline" id="Minutes">Minutes</span></h2>
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              <p>Present:
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              <ul>
                <li> <b> CMU: </b> Naomi Jarvis</li>
                <li> <b> FSU: </b> Edmundo Barriga, Sean Dobbs</li>
                <li> <b> JLab: </b> Alex Austregesilo, Mark Ito
                  (chair), Igal Jaegle, David Lawrence, Simon Taylor,
                  Beni Zihlmann</li>
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              <p>There is a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
                  href="https://bluejeans.com/s/2iPWl/">recording of his
                  meeting</a> on the BlueJeans site. Use your JLab
                credentials to access it.
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              <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcements">Announcements</span></h3>
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                <li> Beni enjoyed the cookies he received from Naomi.</li>
                <li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2020-February/003901.html">New
                    version set: version_4.15.0.xml</a> 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.</li>
                <li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2020-February/003906.html">Reconstruction-Launch-Compatible
                    Version Sets for halld_sim 4.13.0</a> These go along
                  with the version set in the previous announcement.</li>
                <li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2020-February/003902.html">Deprecating
                    DIST in favor of HALLD_VERSIONS for version.xml
                    files</a> The location of our version.xml files is
                  moving.</li>
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              <h3><span class="mw-headline"
                  id="Review_of_Minutes_from_the_Last_Software_Meeting">Review
                  of Minutes from the Last Software Meeting</span></h3>
              <p>We reviewed <a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Software_Meeting,_February_4,_2020#Minutes"
                  title="GlueX Software Meeting, February 4, 2020">the
                  minutes from the meeting on February 4</a>.
              </p>
              <p>Mark reminded us that all of our old files on the
                volatile disk will disappear on March 4.
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              <h3><span class="mw-headline"
                  id="Review_of_recent_issues_and_pull_requests">Review
                  of recent issues and pull requests</span></h3>
              <ul>
                <li> 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.</li>
                <li> Mark outlined some of the details of the plan to
                  upgrade to CCDB 2.0. See <a rel="nofollow"
                    class="external text"
                    href="https://markito3.wordpress.com/2020/02/11/rolling-out-ccdb-2-0/">his
                    notes</a> on the discussion with Dmitry Romanov.</li>
                <li> Naomi proposes <a rel="nofollow" class="external
                    text"
                    href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/ccdb/issues/65">deleting
                    tables that have never been used</a> when we
                  transition to CCDB 2.0. Indeed this can be done if
                  they have never been used.</li>
                <li> Many of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external
                    text"
                    href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/RCDB/issues?q=is%3Aissue">issues
                    on the RCDB GitHub page</a> 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.</li>
              </ul>
              <h3><span class="mw-headline"
                  id="Review_of_recent_discussion_on_the_GlueX_Software_Help_List">Review
                  of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List</span></h3>
              <p>We noticed that Dakota Christian asked for help with
                problems (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gluex-software/JMiKQUpoAfI">here</a>
                and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gluex-software/zK-5BfonkhQ">here</a>)
                with Monte Carlo jobs on the farm last December. Mark
                will follow up with him on the issue.
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              <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Action_Item_Review">Action
                  Item Review</span></h3>
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                <li> Submit an HDGeant4 issue on TOF backward
                  compatibility. (Igal)</li>
                <li> Submit an RCDB issue on data maintenance self-help.
                  (Mark)</li>
                <li> Follow up with Dakota on his simulation issue.
                  (Mark)</li>
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