Summary of software discussions at the Oct. 2006 GlueX collaboration meeting
David Lawrence
Oct. 16, 2006


There were two software discussions held at the collaboration meeting.
The first was a scheduled one on the first morning of the meeting and
the second was held just before close out on the last day of the
meeting and was not on the official agenda.

Oct. 12 Software discussion:
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This discussion started out with David reporting on the status of the
GlueX reconstruction software. Progress on milestones set
at the last collaboration meeting was reviewed briefly. Specific areas
of progress in the reconstruction software were presented. And
finally, a plan for the software work that needs to be done prior
to CD-2 was outlined. The upcoming software workshop(Nov. 2006) was 
included as a pivotal point in the software milestones that need
to be met prior to CD-2.

There was fairly little discussion by the collaboration as a whole
prior during this section of the meeting. The two main things expressed
were
1.) A general consensus on the overall plan which is driven by studies
that we wish to complete by CD-2. There was no discussion of specific 
studies that should be performed outside of what was presented. There
was a suggestion that the studies should focus on 1 or 2 "gold-plated"
reactions which was generally agreed upon.

2.) David should start working on a document that outlined some
specifics of the plan presented on his slides and a second discussion
should be held at the end of the meeting on Saturday.

Oct. 14 Software discussion:
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This discussion started with a rough draft of the document David
agreed to put together after the discussion 2 days earlier.

Alex suggested that we invite reviewers to sit in on the workshop
to provide feedback during the discussions. Two names suggested
were Bill Dunwoodie and Bernhard Mecking. These would not be reviewers
in the sense that they would be provided material ahead of time 
and asked to write a report later. Their role would be to contribute
to the dicsussions that take place during the workshop.

There was a little discussion on specific things that should be 
studied prior to CD-2. There were 3 specific suggestions:

- Missing mass resolutions

- Single particle resolutions

- Use of 2-3 "golden" reactions


In preparation for the workshop it was agreed that each subsystem
prepare a 1-page document describing what SHOULD be in Geant
regarding that detector. This needs to be done prior to the 
workshop so that the information can be used in the studies that
will be performed for CD-2.

It was also determined that David will produce a list of "must-haves"
in regard to software by the time of the workshop. The list will
contain names of those who will be completing each task and will
be circulated ASAP so everyone knows what is being expected of them.
Some names were identified for individual tasks. Some names were
suggested of collaborators who were not at the meeting so
they will need to be contacted individually. David will to do this.