Hall-D Weekly Software meeting May 18,2004


Attendees: Elliott W., Sandy P., Ed B., David L., Richard J.(on phone)
Ryan M.(on phone), Mark Ito(part way through)

EB: Review of topics to be discussed at upcoming collaboration
meeting.

RM: Interested in developing code/algorithms for Particle ID.

EW: Summer student coming this summer. Plan is to have him look
at slow controls.

EB: XML browsers?
RJ: XSLT works well. Provides custom views.
EB: Would like a tool for comparing two XML formatted outputs.

RJ: Working on getting hdds with MCFast.
EB: Works for me with MCFast5.2
RJ: Got a note from Curtis which said 5.2 may not be compatible.
    though 5.1 is.

EB: Modular analysis framework.
DL: Perhaps use dynamically linked objects and a very generic
    main executable.

DL: What about directory structure for the code.
EW: First must discuss the code development model. Free-for-all
    vs. gatekeeper.
EB: We should have a test suite to test changes.


EB: Basic analysis framework needs to be understood first.

EW: Two questions: 1.How do you want it to look like in the end
    2. How you get there.

RJ: Description of the data representation in memory via hdds.

EB: We should create a flow chart for a specific type of events.

RJ: Tracks->Clusters->Matching->PID

RJ: Maybe we should look for an existing DC tracking package
    rather than writing everything from scratch.
EW: Some general packages exist.

RJ: Should look at crystal barrel for cluster finding.

EW: Generic questions: Obsolete products - Philosophical vs. specifics
    of implementations.