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| − | Present: Alex Austregesilo, Edmundo Barriga, Thomas Britton, Sean Dobbs, Sergey Furletov, Mark Ito (chair), Igal Jaegle, Richard Jones, Simon Taylor, Jon Zarling, Beni Zihlmann
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| − | There is a [https://bluejeans.com/s/iHsrd3ouohh recording of this meeting]. Log into the [https://jlab.bluejeans.com BlueJeans site] first to gain access (use your JLab credentials).
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| − | # [https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2021-October/008671.html New version set: 5.1.0] This version set was released on October 29. Mark is preparing a new version set and now that [https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_recon/pull/605 Pull Request #605], "Remove incorrect logic in TRUTH photon construction," submitted by Sean, has been merged by Alex, a new tag of halld_recon can be applied and added to the new set.
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| − | # [https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2021-November/008681.html first step toward a global filesystem for Gluex]. Richard led a discussion of how we can use [https://opensciencegrid.org/docs/data/stashcache/overview/ StashCache] to create, maintain, and analyze a global file system. See [https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2021-November/008681.html his email] for details.
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| − | #* The OSG is moving away from user X509 certificates and towards tokens for user authentication. This (and other issues) have caused a stoppage in job submission to the OSG over the past few weeks
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| − | #** The stoppage was confirmed by Thomas. "We are on the cutting edge of OSG use," he reports.
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| − | #* We should leverage efforts from the larger community on data management. StashCache is an example of an opportunity to do so.
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| − | #* Igal is interested in using this for PrimEx and SRC/CT.
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| − | #* One leading candidate for using this is for doing analysis launches on the OSG. This requires having our REST data out there on StashCache.
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| − | #* Mark: We (aka he) need education on StashCache. Perhaps Richard can give a pedagogically oriented presentation at some point.
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| − | #* [https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld/2021-December/000943.html Transitioning to Zoom] Mark put a wiki page together on the topic and invited us to contribute content.
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| − | #* [https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2021-November/008710.html New version set for simulating 2019-11 data] There will be a new version sets coming out soon to pick up the fix from Sean mentioned above (Pull Request #605) as applied to the recon-launch compatible builds (2017-01, 2018-01, 2018-08, and 2019-11).
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| − | === Review of Minutes from the Last Software Meeting ===
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| − | We went over the [[GlueX Software Meeting, October 25, 2021#Minutes|minutes from the meeting on October 25th]].
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| − | * Thomas reported that the node formerly known as scosg16 is being rebuilt as scosg16-dev and will serve as a test platform for changes to OSG-related software. This avoids bringing in changes, untested, on the production Submit Host (now scosg20).
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| − | * CentOS Stream looks to be the choice (not yet final) for a future upgrade of the JLab Farm.
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| − | * On '''Package Structure''', Mark has concluded that the project to render halld_sim and hdgeant4 independent of halld_recon by splitting out the pieces of code used by all three is not easily done and will require coding of interface routines, i.e., a significant refactoring effort. He has succeeded in doing the split in on a technical basis, but the extracted code represents an unacceptably large fraction of the various detector reconstruction packages. The split code, though not suitable for general use, may guide us if we want to pursue this change in the future.
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| − | === Review of Minutes from the Last HDGeant4 Meeting ===
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| − | We went over the [[HDGeant4_Meeting,_November_29,_2021#Minutes|minutes from the meeting on November 29]].
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| − | Hao Li has marked [https://github.com/JeffersonLab/HDGeant4/issues/195 Issue #195], "Crash adding daughters on RHEL/CentOS 8" as resolved.
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| − | === Report from the November 4th SciComp Meeting ===
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| − | Mark promised a report soon. He knows y'all can't wait. ;-)
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| − | === FAQ of the Fortnight: How do I get notified of changes in a repository on GitHub? ===
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| − | We took a quick look at the link provided in the [[GlueX_Offline_FAQ#How_do_I_get_notified_of_changes_in_a_repository_on_GitHub.3F|answer to this FAQ]].
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| − | === Upcoming Computing Review ===
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| − | We went over a few items linked from the [[Software_and_Computing_Review_6|Computing Review wiki page]].
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| − | * There will be a meeting to show slides this afternoon. All presenters in the review will present what they have.
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| − | * A few of the slides that Mark prepared were flashed.
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| − | * The pre-review handout document now runs to about 16 pages.
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| − | === Documentation Upgrade ===
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| − | Beni presented his thought on how we should improve software documentation. See [https://halldweb.jlab.org/talks/2021/usedoxy.pdf his slides] for all of the details. Some points (for emphasis):
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| − | * User's are well-positioned to comment on the documentation and should be encouraged to do so.
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| − | * An overview presentation of the data analysis flow, from reconstruction to analysis to ROOT analysis is lacking.
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| − | * Richard: there are additional valuable resources for software information:
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| − | ** The HOWTO wiki page.
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| − | ** Recordings of past Tutorials/Workfests
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| − | * Beni proposed forming a task force
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| − | ** Those present unanimously agreed that Beni should be the chair.
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| − | *** Richard remarked that "we are all 100% behind you, Beni."
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| − | ** Mark volunteered to provide advice to the new chair.
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| − | ** Beni will call an organizational meeting.
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