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Action 63.4
M.Asai and M.Verderi to identify and nominate new documentation coordinator.
SB 64: Still open. M.Asai acting as ad-interim coordinator.
SB 65: Still open.
SB 66: Still looking for volunteer. P.Gumplinger suggests Fred Jones. M.Asai will contact him.
SB 67: Still open.
SB 68: Still open.
SB 69: Still open.
SB 70: Still open. Some candidates to communicate have been found and will be reported before long.
New Actions from SB Meeting 66 (8 July 2011) Action 66.1c
J.Perl to provide a tracebility table accessible from the visualization working group web page, where status of testing coverage is documented.
SB 69: Still open.
SB 70: Still open. Action 66.1d
M.Asai to provide a tracebility table accessible from the Run/Event working group web page, where status of testing coverage is documented.
SB 69: Still open.
SB 70: Still open. Action 66.1e
M.Verderi to provide a tracebility table accessible from the Materials and Generic Processes working group web page, where status of testing coverage is documented.
SB 69: Still open.
SB 70: Still open.
New Actions from SB Meeting 67 (23 September 2011) Action 67.1
K.Murakami to create a new Jira instance where to put SB actions list.
SB 68: Still open.
SB 69: Still open.
SB 70: Still open. Created a new field in Jira but not complete yet. Action 67.4
M.Asai to complete testing coverage for scoring and divisions.
SB 68: Still open.
SB 69: Still open.
SB 70: Still open. Action 67.5
V.Ivantchenko to complete testing coverage for multiple-scattering.
SB 68: Still open.
SB 69: Several tests exist, still it requires extension also coping with the problem of missing data; would be enough if existing tests are at least documented so the level of coverage is under control. Kept open.
SB 70: Still open. Action 67.6
G.Folger and D.Wright to verify the testing coverage for the various hadronic physics models, including related energy ranges.
SB 68: Still open.
SB 69: Still open.
SB 70: Still open.
New Actions from SB Meeting 70 (24 February 2012) Action 70.1
G.Cosmo to prepare and announce release schedule for 2012.
List of completed Actions
Action 9.1 complete TSB 10 J.Apostolakis to establish an Action list. Action 9.2 complete TSB 11 G.Cosmo to update the release procedure to include a regular review of the Category Diagram. Action 9.4 complete TSB 11 G.Cosmo to create a repository for storing results and raw data of the software assessment. Action 9.5 complete TSB 12 G.Folger, S.Sadilov to plan for minor release or patch to update Geant4 3.0 to support shared libraries on Linux and Solaris, and to update system testing to test this configuration. Action 9.6 complete TSB 19 M.Asai to support the HepMC event generator interface.
TSB 12: this is partially satisfied.
TSB 14: the Japanese ATLAS team is working on it.
TSB 15: an example to use HepMC as an external package will be provided in 4.0.
TSB 18: 2 examples using HepMC v.1.21 are now under development and already finalised. Testing is ongoing on Linux. They will soon be released as extended examples. Porting to the latest HepMC version in CLHEP 1.8 will be necessary. Action 9.7 complete TSB 13 M.Asai to respond to request for facility to specify lifetime for each instance of the B-meson. Action 9.8 complete TSB 15 H.Kurashige, M.Maire to investigate methods of reducing Geant4 initialization time. This involves saving of the User Physics List.
TSB 13: H.Kurashige reported on progress.
TSB 14: design is almost finished, is being implemented. Action 9.9 complete TSB 11 G.Folger to ask institutions (experiment, institute, laboratory) representatives which platforms are in substantial use amongst its members for Geant4 simulations. Action 9.10 complete TSB 12 Software Management Team to provide results of Solaris 7.1 / CC++ 5.1 certification for Geant4. Action 10.2 complete TSB 16 J.Apostolakis to generate and maintain a full list of goals for 2001 for each working group, including development, testing and support. This should identify completion times for intermediate checkpoints. The first version should be available February 28th, 2001. Action 10.3 complete TSB 22 M.Asai to create a half-page summary on the objectives of the papers on the architecture of Geant4 and the software process, and to find an editor for the architecture paper.
TSB 18: will be discussed in the architecture WG meeting by end of April, M.Asai will report.
TSB 22: closed already in TSB 21. Action 10.4 complete TSB 18 J.Apostolakis, M.Asai and working group coordinators to prepare a detailed proposal on a regression suite for Geant4 (discussed later at this meeting). TSB 18 - 2 examples/applications have been proposed and people are now working on it Action 11.1 complete TSB 12 J.Apostolakis to draft a letter to the CB expressing concern for the lack of an approved disclaimer of warranty, and recommend to the CB that wording for a disclaimer be finalized by 1st June 2001. Action 11.2 complete TSB 12 J.Allison to arrange for PostScript and/or PDF versions of Geant4 paper to be available. Action 11.3 complete TSB 14 Where appropriate all collaboration members to submit summary information about "applications" papers and/or information relating to Geant4 robustness to J.Apostolakis.
TSB 12 - not fulfilled, no information received from collaboration members Action 11.4 complete TSB 12 Category coordinators to provide first draft of contribution to Activity Report to J.Apostolakis by 30th March or discuss revised time-scales. Action 11.5 complete TSB 12 J.Apostolakis to issue a status report on the Activity Report. Action 11.6 complete TSB 12 G.Cosmo to develop a procedure for Geant4 minor releases which includes minor changes in Geant4 behaviour. Action 11.7 complete TSB 13 K.Amako to create a procedure for updating documentation at any scheduled release, and communicate procedure to category coordinators. Action 11.8 complete TSB 15 IN2P3, UK User Group, SLAC to investigate whether hardware and manpower could be made available at their establishments for testing Geant4 on DEC.
F.Ranjard to investigate whether similar facilities can be made available for PC Windows machines.
TSB 14: SLAC does not support DEC, PPARC has done nothing yet, LHCb is setting a Win-2000 server with DFS and remote login facility. Action 11.9 complete TSB 14 Software Management Working Group to distribute a circular to determine requirement for support to duplicate Sun compilers, and if appropriate (i.e. subject to response and decision of the TSB), discontinue support to Sun CC 4.2.
TSB 14: closed - no more support for Sun CC 4.2 Action 11.10 complete TSB 14 J.Apostolakis to issue an announcement on plans for discontinuing/modifying support for HP and DEC platforms.
TSB 12 - there is a draft Action 11.11 complete TSB 12 J.Apostolakis to liase with individual working group members on milestones for 2001, and generate a list of working group objectives by the end of next week. It is intended that the Working Group goals should then be discussed at the next TSB. Action 11.12 complete TSB 13 K.Amako to send plan for review of documentation system (from Workshop in October 2000), in order to get feedback from TSB members. Action 11.13 complete TSB 14 Member groups to provide proposals on new comparison projects and new application areas to identify potential milestones.
TSB 12 - 2 new comparison projects from low energy e.m. will produce 2 new advanced examples ready for the December release. Action 11.14 complete TSB 14 J.Apostolakis to issue a memo on the requirements for regression testing from processes groups.
TSB 14 - closed, keep action 10.4 Action 11.15 complete TSB 12 M.G.Pia to provide the TSB with a more detailed description of requirements for treating specular reflection processes of X-rays. Action 11.16 complete TSB 18 Category coordinators to submit estimates of manpower and time-scales for implementing trace-ability. Category coordinators were also requested to provide updates to designs, particularly architectural design diagrams. Deadline - 20th April (May for the Hadronics category). (This action is not relevant to the lowE EM Working Group, which has completed the software trace-ability task.)
TSB 12 - J.Apostolakis will issue a result shortly
TSB 18 - to be achieved by the next delta review in September/October 2002 Action 11.17 complete TSB 12 M.G.Pia, M.Schroder to issue a draft Workshop programme before the end of April. Action 11.18 complete TSB 12 J.Apostolakis to circulate a list of more specific TSB dates to members and finalise these dates. Action 11.19 complete TSB 16 G.Folger to provide an estimate of the resources required to establish a facility to collect user information when downloading from the Geant4 web-site Action 12.1 complete TSB 13 M.G.Pia to arrange for a presentation of available tools for geometry checking in a parallel session of the workshop (by June 8th). Action 12.2 complete TSB 16 K.Amako, D.Wright, J.Apostolakis: document the ATLAS/BaBar user requirement for different production thresholds in geometry regions and submit it to the TSB (by July 1st). Action 12.3 complete TSB 13 J.P.Wellisch to provide a user requirement template and submit it to the TSB (by July 1st). Action 12.4 complete TSB 13 Draft a description of the purpose of the forum to be added to its first page. This should explain that the forum is meant for the exchange of G4 expertise between users, and that the collaboration will respond to questions on a best effort basis. (M.G.Pia + J.Apostolakis to draft by May 31st and send to the TSB). Then add a link to it in the G4 home page (by June 8th). Action 13.1 complete TSB 15 J.Apostolakis to nominate architecture working group. Action 13.2 replaced by 18.9 Architecture working group to formulate new User Requirement Document.
TSB 18: will be discussed in the architecture WG meeting by end of April 2002. Action 13.3 completed at TBS 15 G.Cosmo, S.Sadilov, D.Wright to work out the procedure of simultaneous release of code, libraries and document.
TSB 14 - it is being implemented. Action 13.4 complete TSB 18 J.Apostolakis to form a subgroup to study how to distribute development versions between major releases to people outside of the collaboration. The results of this study should be published (by Sept 27th).
TSB 14 - the policy will try to distinguish between bug fixes and new features. Distcussion at the next CC meeting and then presentation at the TSB meeting
TSB 18 - proposal made and approved. Development releases will be distributed to Beta testers, subscribing through WWW Action 13.5 complete TSB 18 J.Apostolakis to form a subgroup to work out details and manpower estimations for the new Documentation/Web working group.
TSB 18 - G.Folger and G.Cosmo will plan activities, with help of physics WG coordinators. Action 13.6 complete TSB 15 J.Apostolakis to propose the coordinator of Analysis category to TSB after consultation with analysis group members. Action 13.7 complete TSB 15 D.Wright with consultation with K.Amako to organize a global review of Geant4 documentations (by October 1st) and a detailed review (by December 14th). Action 14.1 complete TSB 18 J.Allison to circulate a more precise schedule for obtaining comments on the draft general Geant4 paper.
TSB 18 - schedule and draft paper circulated by J.Allison. The final version of the paper is expected within end of April 2002 Action 14.2 complete TBS 15 J.Apostolakis will contact category coordinators to obtain a progress report on the STL migration, in order to ensure that the 4.0 release is able to utilise it (in case of delay he is to report on the reason for it). Action 14.3 complete TBS 15 G.Cosmo to send a reminder with schedule for documentation of new features to Category coordinators. Action 14.4 complete TSB 16 J.Apostolakis to look at the magnetic field problems in vacuum and in dense material (a G4Exception instead of a core dump does not solve the problem).
TSB 15: First half is done, second is opened. Action 14.5 complete TBS 15 J.Apostolakis to nominate category coordinator to make plans in view of AIDA evolution. Action 14.6 complete TSB 16 S.Sadilov to obtain tests of concrete parameterisation models to be included in the testing procedure. Action 14.7 complete TBS 15 Code writers are asked to move the body of static accessors to static storages from header files to implementation files. Action 14.8 complete TSB 18 G.Cosmo to organize a presentation of the Ignominy tool to the next CC meeting.
TSB 18 - G.Cosmo contacted Lassi Tuura, who agreed to make a presentation at the CC meeting. Date of CC meeting to be notified in advance! Action 14.9 complete TSB 16 J.Apostolakis to get a draft of 2002 milestones for the next TSB meeting. Action 14.10 complete TSB 16 S.Sadilov to provide a prototype User Requirement Collection system (based on Bugzilla) implementing the template for user requirements. Action 14.11 complete TBS 15 J.Apostolakis to consider the issues and propose a timescale for draft implementation of cuts per material by mid October following the consultation with people like Pedro and Hisaya. Action 15.1 complete TSB 16 D.Wright to organize the second stage of global review of Geant4 documentation - detailed review (plan and schedule by January 2002). Action 15.2 complete TSB 16 G.Cosmo to report at next meeting about progress in implementing removal of inline static methods from the code, in view of facilitating porting on Win-2000 for of shared libraries. Action 15.3 complete TSB 18 J.Apostolakis to identify one testbeam example for which analysis will done using AIDA interfaces.
TSB 18 - test-application identified. An updated version is expected soon from ATLAS Action 15.4 complete TSB 16 J.Apostolakis to send to CB chair a request to finalise the review report. Action 15.5 complete TSB 18 To all responsibles in the main G4 labs, report on the availability Rational-Rose and Together CASE toolkits in the respective centers.
TSB 18 - OK for CERN and KEK, TRIUMF and SLAC evaluating the possibility to have a single license for North America Action 15.6 complete TSB 19 M.Asai to provide flexible G4Exception, corresponding example, and documentation.
TSB 18: M.Asai proposes introduction of "severity" level for G4Exception together with unique identifier for exceptions. M.Asai will present the proposal for discussion through the Category Coordinators e-mail list. Action 15.7 complete TSB 16 S.Sadilov to add automatic reminder notification to the problem reporting system. Action 16.1 complete TSB 21 D.Wright to organize the second stage of global review of Geant4 documentation - detailed review (plan and schedule by January 2002).
TSB 18: D.Wright made a proposal for manual of physics models. J.Apostolakis will contact D.Wright concerning required resources. Action 16.2 complete TSB 19 J.Apostolakis to setup a group of category coordinators to establish a regression suite.
TSB 18: action pending creation of the proper infrastructure. Possible candidate applications: ATLAS EM barrel testbeam, and category-level tests from EM WG. Action 18.1 complete TSB 21 G.Folger to evaluate, design and implement a registration mechanism for Beta testers of development releases.
TSB 21: implemented since August 2002. Action 18.2 complete TSB 21 G.Folger & G.Cosmo to estimate resources needed for Web restructuring, involving physics WG coordinators.
TSB 19: 1 full time person will be enough, technical student will be assigned. Action 18.3 complete TSB 19 All WG coordinators, to provide by end of April 2002, a list of the expected developments (no interface changes) to be included in the June release. Action 18.4 complete TSB 29 S.Sadilov to add a "bug-fix" flag for tags submitted in Bonsai, with possibility to hook to Bugzilla problem reports.
TSB 28: changes in Bonsai implemented. Will be made available together with other improvements before mid-May 2004.
TSB 29: feature in Bonsai now in place. Action 18.5 complete TSB 28 G.Folger & G.Cosmo to implement a more intuitive web form buttons-based for downloads of source-code/binaries.
TSB 27: G.Folger to prepare proposal for the next TSB meeting.
TSB 28: Replaced by new action about new Web redesign. Action 18.6 complete TSB 19 J.Apostolakis to set up a meeting with ESA and relevant coordinators for reported problem of "non-physical" results for particles approaching boundaries. Action 18.7 complete TSB 21 Y.Morita to circulate proposal for persistency to TSB and experiments' representatives by mid-May 2002.
TSB 19: a proposal is circulated.
TSB 21: new persistency module will be implemented in release 5.0. Action 18.8 complete TSB 19 Y.Morita & S.Sadilov, to clarify policy for support of Objectivity/DB at CERN. Action 18.9 complete TSB 21 Architecture WG, to evaluate necessary resources for preparing new revision of general URD and implement it by September 2002.
TSB 21: new updated version 6.4 of general URD circulated and implemented by G.Cosmo in September 2002. Action 18.10 complete TSB 19 S.Sadilov to make available for testing new web tool for requirements collection & analysis, by April 19th 2002. Action 18.11 complete TSB 19 S.Sadilov to make available link for Tinderbox and LXR from internal web pages. Action 18.12 complete TSB 29 J.Apostolakis to nominate responsible for general editing/maintenance of training kit.
TSB 19: will be tutorials in Grand Sasso, schools in Spain and Japan.
TSB 28: JA reported that no volunteers have been found. MGP maybe know some people who could take the responsibility. Maintenance of the training-toolkit should also be seen in relation with the material eventually distributed in the CD.
TSB 29: no volunteers found.... Action 18.13 complete TSB 25 All WG coordinators, to update training kit material according to recent improvements from CERN Users' Workshop.
TSB 22: requires action 18.12 to be implemented first !
TSB 25: several updates undertaken - closed. Action 18.14 complete TSB 19 M.Asai to present proposal for redesign of G4Exception to Category Coordinators mailing list. Action 19.1 complete TSB 22 S.Sadilov in collaboration with others to report the status of work on statistical testing suite. Action 19.2 complete TSB 21 H.Kurashige to evaluate the request of H.Araujo on G4Scintillation problem.
TSB 21: to be implemented in release 5.0. Action 19.3 complete TSB 21 J.Apostolakis to create a program of Geant4 workshop at CERN.
TSB 21: Geant4 Workshop held at CERN as scheduled. Action 19.4 complete TSB 25 J.Apostolakis to report on bug fixing/new feature strategy for the next TSB.
TSB 22: to be reformulated ?
TSB 25: closed. Action 19.5 complete TSB 22 G.Folger to investigate a possibility to distribute Geant4 by CD.
TSB 22: replaced by new action 22.4. Action 19.6 complete TSB 22 Representatives of LHC detectors to present information about number of subdetectors and materials for estimation constrains on cut per region.
TSB 21: to date, only CMS provided the required information. Action 22.1 complete TSB 25 G.Folger to poll collaborators for gathering information about compilers/systems to be supported for 2003.
TSB 25: Undertaken. Action 22.2 complete TSB 25 CA editors to complete Collaboration Agreement proposal with clear definition of Collaboration goals, and detailed description of the mechanism of interaction between Steering Committee and Users Committees.
TSB 25: Undertaken. Action 22.3 complete TSB 24 M.Asai to organise phone meeting for defining testing procedure of developments for cut-by-region, and planning.
TSB 24: Undertaken. Action 22.4 complete TSB 29 Software Management team to define maintenance procedure and distribution policy of a Geant4 CD (CD-image through WWW, physical CD), to be applied on every new public release of the software.
TSB 27: SLAC offered to maintain a CD. An offline meeting is to be organised to define a policy for the distributions, maintenance and contents (libs, tools, tutorial, docs, ...) of the CD.
TSB 28: a report is expected for the next TSB in July 2004.
TSB 29: CD images are provided by SLAC for the major releases and distributed from the web. The training kit included is the one generated for the Users Tutorials organised periodically by SLAC. Action 23.1 complete TSB 25 WG coordinators to publish the WG work-plan for 2003.
TSB 24: most plans published.
TSB 25: complete. Action 23.2 complete TSB 25 G.Cosmo to update the release procedures to document that minor releases *may* include changes to interfaces internal to Geant4.
TSB 25: done. Action 23.3 complete TSB 29 J.Apostolakis to create a project to review the performance of Geant4 for large detector simulation, including contact and technical persons from experiments with current requirements on performance and the relevant Geant4 experts.
TSB 25: First meeting held.
TSB 27: J.Apostolakis will put in place a task force by the next TSB. CMS to be involved.
TSB 29: Regular meetings are now organised with representatives of the major LHC experiments. The action can be considered closed, as long as a report about the outcomes of the meetings is made at the TSB. Action 23.4 complete TSB 24 J.Apostolakis/K.Amako/CA-editors to circulate a revised proposal for the Collaboration Agreement to TSB and CB by April 15th.
TSB 24: draft circulated Action 23.5 complete TSB 24 J.Apostolakis to form a delegation with a mandate to represent TSB and developers at the meeting with CB representatives regarding the Geant4 Collaboration Agreement. Action 23.6 complete TSB 26 G.Folger to perform a full survey of platforms and compilers in use in mid-2003 and projected for end-2003 by partners.
TSB 26: New survey underway - done. Action 23.7 complete TSB 26 Representatives of laboratories/experiments/institutions to provide information on currently used platforms, and those planned for end-2003. Note that a partners requiring support for 'fringe'/unpopular platforms will be expected to contribute to this support (or undertake it as a contribution, if they are the sole requester).
TSB 26: as 23.6 - done Action 24.1 complete TSB 25 J.Apostolakis to communicate with Richard Mount to find out the current status of the Collaboration Agreement document and circulate new information to the TSB.
TSB 25: done Action 24.2 complete TSB 26 J.Apostolakis to find someone to organise a pre-meeting of the new Technical Forum within the next few months.
TSB 24: Vancouver/Triumf and Geneva/CERN hosted meetings agreed.
TSB 25: Makoto Asai organising September meeting hosted at Triumf.
TSB 26: J.Apostolakis chaired October 2003 meeting hosted at CERN, A.De Roeck chaired February 2004 meeting at CERN Action 24.3 complete TSB 32 J.Apostolakis to follow up HPW's concerns on publication policy.
TSB 27: J.Apostolakis invites to be contacted for this.
TSB 28: a publication policy should be expressed in the CA. There's need of a policy for publication and registration: a possibility is to put in place an e-mail reminder for notifying of papers published (or to be published) at every quarter. Improvement and update of the existing structure and web pages is needed, as well as keep up to date the existing AFS repositories for paper sources.
TSB 32: A procedure has been put in place. Action 24.4 complete TSB 25 J.Apostolakis to inform the CB that the TSB looks on the new Collaboration Agreement proposal favourably.
TSB 25: Done in July 2003 CB meeting. Action 24.5 complete TSB 25 F.Jones and J.Apostolakis to solicit advanced users to participate in Workshop.
TSB 25: Invited. Done. Action 24.6 complete TSB 26 J.Apostolakis to organize a discussion between category coordinators at the next TSB in Vancouver and to come out with a proposal on how to improve the release process. Action 24.7 complete TSB 25 G.Cosmo to give a presentation at the Workshop on the current release process.
TSB 25: Done. Action 24.8 complete TSB 25 J.Apostolakis to put "Use of Statistical Testing Tools" on the agenda of Workshop in Vancouver and to identify beta testers and someone from system testers to present their experience.
TSB 25: Done. Action 24.9 complete TSB 25 M.G.Pia to report to the next TSB the outcome of the meeting on the Geant4 Physics Book to be held on June 26th.
TSB 25: Done. Action 24.10 complete TSB 33 J.Apostolakis to solicit information from Institute representatives and independent contributors on their policies regarding who holds copyright on the contribution of their members. Also to solicit the input of working group coordinators on the list of contributors to their area of Geant4 and the approximate extent and longevity of their contribution.
TSB 27: J.Apostolakis to formulate a list of people contributors in Geant4.
TSB 32: WG coordinators have been asked to provide the list of contributors. Contributors to Geant4 mostly identified, work on copyright holders in progress.
TSB 33: Proposal sent and information received. Action 27.1 complete TSB 31 M.Asai to create a draft design for storing/retrieving physics-table and materials, and present it to relevant category coordinators - if more than 3 categories involved, to be reviewed by architects sub-group.
TSB 29: MA will make a report at the next TSB in October for a final proposal.
TSB 31: Done. Design presented at the Geant4 Workshop in Catania. Implementation going on. Action 27.2 complete TSB 28 J.P.Wellisch to provide explanations of the use case of locating first particle in parameterized showers and document requirement in the UR keeper.
TSB 28: Done. The requirement has been inserted in the UR Keeper. The assignee must be corrected to the coordinator of Fast-Simulation & Parameterisations. Action 27.3 complete TSB 32 J.Perl to define procedure in order to ensure the inclusion of effective testing of visualization in the release procedure.
TSB 32: A procedure has been put in place. Needs to be followed as one of the work-items for the visualization working group. Action 27.4 complete SB 38 G.Folger to provide a web location, including disk space, to keep a first archive of pictures (e.g. dawn/heprep/jpeg files), in format ready for inclusion in presentations with proposed attribution (text and author information).
TSB 29: GF reports that space is available but a procedure must be defined. Simple e-mail to GF can be enough.
TSB 31: GF will circulate e-mail.
TSB 32: E-mail has been sent out, the web location to be established still.
TSB 34: A location has been established.
SB 38: Space and web location in place. Action 27.5 complete TSB 28 G.Folger to include prominent links in the 'download' area to externally maintained pages for installing Geant4 on unsupported platforms. A first version should include Norman Graf's web page on Geant4 on Windows.
TSB 28: Done. Action 27.6 complete SB 38 D.Wright to define scope of information required to have the documented behavior of the hadronic models implementations and physics lists, and inquire as to the priority for users; if need is clear, assess the effort required to create and maintain additional information (e.g. as a new manual).
TSB 28: DW reports that the scope is to have a companion to the hadronic physics-lists (where appropriate to use, what models/ cross-sections cowork, ...); users require this kind of explanations. The effort required for achieving this is estimated in 1 person working for 1 month full time.
TSB 29: DW reports the main concern is the gap existing between the physics-reference manual and the developers-guide, which should be filled. Need to put in place a set of tips for custom configuration of the physics-lists.
TSB 31: DW made a proposal to be evaluated.
TSB 32: A discussion will be iterated at the next Category Coordinators meeting.
TSB 33: A discussion is in progress.
SB 38: Model/process catalog is now in place in the new web pages. Some gaps still to be filled concerning the EM models. Action 27.7 complete TSB 29 S.Sadilov to undertake a first test of Unit independence, and report on its outcome to the Category Coordinators (by first half of 2004).
TSB 28: SS reports all will be in place before mid-May 2004.
TSB 29: SS reports about a first test made on release 6.2. Some problems are under investigation and reported to M.Maire. Need to define a recipy to easily iterate the test also for developers, and have the test performed at regular intervals by STT. Action 27.8 complete TSB 28 J.Apostolakis to organise extraordinary TSB meeting in 3-4 weeks on the subject of the revised Collaboration Agreement proposal.
TSB 28: Done. Action 27.9 complete TSB 29 J.Apostolakis to undertake process to identify who are the license holders for Geant4, to the best degree achievable.
TSB 29: Action superceeded by 24.10. Action 27.10 complete TSB 32 J.Perl to address TF request 0315 to "Fix problems with the boolean processor": review current situation and recommend solution.
TSB 32: JP reports that there've not been anymore complaints from users on issues related to visualization of boolean solids. J.Allison and JP did review the item in October 2004. Action 27.11 complete TSB 29 G.Folger to circulate proposed end-date for Windows Visual C++ 6 support, and seek user feedback.
TSB 29: Done. Information for drop of support for VC++6.0 and gcc-2.95.2 from release 7.0 has been also included in the release notes for 6.2. Action 27.12 complete TSB 28 G.Cosmo to improve promotion of future Events for users in Geant4 home page and maintain separate page listing further details of upcoming and recent Tutorials and User Workshops.
TSB 28: Done Action 27.13 complete TSB 33 D.Wright to provide concrete proposal on potential reorganisation of Documentation to CC and then TSB.
TSB 28: the reorganisation is related to filling the the gap between physics-reference manual and the rest of the documentation, and to the restructuring of the Toolkit Guide.
TSB 29: The action is mainly concerning the restructuring of the Toolkit Guide. Related also to action 27.6.
TSB 32: A work item for 2005 on the Toolkit Guide has been proposed.
TSB 33: A proposal for the reorganisation of the Toolkit Guide has been sent to the TSB by D.Wright. The work is planned for 2005. Action 27.14 complete TSB 31 M.G.Pia to provide a first estimate of the effort required for a Geant4 Physics Book Project to the TSB.
TSB 28: MGP reports that work is in progress for a 'tentative' volume for EM physics. A work-plan will be prepared in a meeting in June 2004. A first effort estimate will be made available at the next TSB meeting in July 2004.
TSB 29: Documentation about the work done to be published soon.
TSB 31: Done. Status of the current work should be regularly given. Action 27.15 complete TSB 28
G.Cosmo to create a web page with features of the 2004 scheduled releases and make it available to users.
TSB 28: Done Action 27.16 complete TSB 29 J.Apostolakis & M.G.Pia to propose a Program Committe for the Geant4 Workshop.
TSB 29: Program Committee nominated: K.Amako, G.Cosmo, D.Wright, J.Apostolakis (as spokesman), M.G.Pia (INFN representative), P.Cirrone (workshop organiser committee representative). Action 27.17 complete TSB 29 Program Committe chair to identify focal points for the Geant4 Workshop.
TSB 29: Done. First draft agenda circulated. Action 28.1 complete TSB 31 D.Wright, G.Folger to propose a new Web design and implement a first prototype, where also a more intuitive download page is implemented.
TSB 29: Two prototypes ready developed by SLAC. Will be circulated soon to TSB and discussed at the Geant4 Workshop in Catania.
TSB 31: Done. See proposed designs: [1], [2]. Suggestions that were made in Catania will be implemented soon in the new redesign. Action 28.2 complete TSB 29 J.Apostolakis, G.Folger to put in place an automated system for regularly reminding by email at every quarter to the Geant4 Collaboration about notification of papers published or to be published.
TSB 29: Draft circulated to TSB. To be circulated to the Collaboration. Action 28.3 complete TSB 29 G.Cosmo to provide a summary on the benchmark tests performed on the g++ compiler on Linux/Pentium with different optimisation options and chip-specific optimisations.
TSB 29: Summary presented at TSB. Action 28.4 complete TSB 29 H.Kurasige to provide a summary to Category Coordinators about the foreseen migration of names in G4ParticleChange.
TSB 29: Summary presented at TSB. To be made available to public from web pages. Action 28.5 complete TSB 29 T.Sasaki to provide summary of plan for tracking about handling zero kinetic-energy plarticles in along-step at the next TSB in July 2004.
TSB 29: Summary presented at TSB. Action 28.6 complete SB 38 J.Apostolakis to prepare planning for Users Workshops to be held in 2004/2005.
TSB 29: JA will prepare a proposal to be presented at the Geant4 Workshop in Catania.
TSB 32: JA reports that there's interest in having a User's Workshop at CERN in 2005, as well as a tutorial.
TSB 33: Details for a User's Workshop at CERN in May are being prepared.
SB 38: Done. Action 30.1 complete TSB 31 J.P.Wellisch to report on impact analysis for first prototype design of particles that eliminates classes for each particle type.
TSB 31: J.P.Wellisch reported that it will require about 1 week. Action 30.2 complete TSB 32 M.Asai, H.Kurasige to create second prototype of particles, keeping classes for particle types.
TSB 32: The prototype is already committed in CVS. The item must be followed with action 31.4. Action 30.3 complete TSB 31 Category Coordinators to migrate code to use <cmath> in place of <math.h> by release 7.0.
TSB 31: On track for release 7.0. Action 30.4 complete SB 38 H.Yoshida, UI team to evaluate impact of migration to <sstream> by January 2005.
TSB 34: A report on this issue has now become high priority !
TSB 35: Hajime provided the list of categories affected by the migration, most of them making use of ostrstream can easily be migrated and a recipy will be provided. More investigation is required for G4cout.
SB 38: Evaluation completed and implemented in release 8.0. Action 30.5 complete TSB 31 G.Cosmo to provide by October 24th 2004 a first impact analysis for migration to CLHEP 2.0.X series.
TSB 31: Done. Action 30.6 complete TSB 31 Category Coordinators to provide by November 7th 2004 agreed proposal/decision on move to CLHEP 2.0.X series for release 7.0.
TSB 31: Done. CLHEP-2.0.X migration is not considered for the time being, due to problems in the CLHEP distribution. Action 30.7 complete TSB 31 Category Coordinators to revise by end of October 2004 relevant classes for the migration to new G4VParticleChange signature.
TSB 31: Done. Migration of hadronics and remaining categories completed for release 7.0. Action 30.8 complete TSB 31 G.Folger to check by end of October 2004 which current code uses the old signatures for methods renaming in G4VParticleChange.
TSB 31: Done. Action 30.9 complete TSB 31 G.Folger to distribute by end of October 2004 a proposal and plan about the CVS repository reorganisation.
TSB 31: Done. Action 30.10 complete TSB 32 All to inform M.Maire about potential date conflicts for the Geant4 Workshop at CENBG in September 2005.
TSB 31: Foreseen dates are beginning of September.
TSB 32: Dates established for as 3-10 November 2005. Action 30.11 complete TSB 31 J.Apostolakis to distribute e-mail to Category Coordinators requesting first draft list of contributors in each category for identifying copyright holders.
TSB 31: e-mail has been distributed. New action to category coordinators to reply to J.Aposolakis and provide the list. Action 30.12 complete TSB 32 M.Asai, M.G.Pia to distribute by November 1st 2004 draft mandate and details for example Working Groups to the TSB.
TSB 31: Presentations were made at the Geant4 Workshop in Catania.
TSB 32: Mandates discussed and approved. Action 31.1 complete TSB 33 Category coordinators to reply to J.Apostolakis providing the list of contributors in each category in order to identify copyright holders.
TSB 32: Most responses received. Still missing a couple.
TSB 33: Completed. Action 31.2 complete TSB 33 G.Folger to make test repository available for testing and send reminders to category coordinators and developers to test their own access.
TSB 32: Repository is available. Little feedback from developers (1,2 people replied...); plan to switch the repository by mid-February 2005.
TSB 33: New repository now in production. Action 31.3 complete TSB 32 Category coordinators to respond to proposal of removal of dead directories and pruning for the new repository.
TSB 32: Received. Action 31.4 complete TSB 34 H.Kurasige, M.Asai to identify impact of change of new design for particles.
TSB 32: MA reports that some problems are raising with some hadronic physics-lists; no side effects on the kernel code. G4UnknownParticle follows already the new design.
TSB 34: Design published, report made and implementation in place. Requires corrections in the implementation of the hadronic physics-lists to remove ownership of the physics-processes. See action 34.1. Action 32.1 complete TSB 34 M.G.Pia to circulate work items for the low-energy electromagnetic working group.
TSB 34: Work plan now published. Action 32.2 complete TSB 33 J.P.Wellisch to distribute finalised plan of work items for the hadronic working group.
TSB 33: Plan for 2005-2006 received at the TSB. 2005 Planned features web page to be updated (see new action 33.1). Action 32.3 complete SB 39 S.Sadilov to review the testing procedure and identify actions to take to improve time passed between a tag being proposed for testing and the testing result being comunicated.
TSB 33: One weakness has been identied in the integration of Windows in the STT automated procedure (long-standing issue never really resolved), though it's believed is not the only reason. Actions need to be identified still !
TSB 34: SS reports that some improvements have been made on Windows, where now a more powerful system is used. Testing is now run on different areas, improving the immediate check of proposed tags.
SB 39: Problems identified and solved, still Windows to be integrated. SS to document on web issues for improvement. See action 39.1. Action 32.4 complete SB 38 G.Cosmo to assess impact of going to CLHEP 2.0 including the effects on users.
SB 38: Light migration for support of CLHEP 2.0.X implemented in release 8.0. Action 32.5 complete SB 39 H.Kurasige, J.P.Wellisch to find out what the technical forum requirement 3.13 exactly means: do users need to modify properties of resonances?
SB 39: Issue resolved. Action 32.6 complete SB 49 Category coordinators to provide a list of journals in which Geant4 has papers published and to investigate on copyright issues for printed documents on text/pictures published already on papers and included in the Physics Reference Manual.
SB 40: JA will appoint someone to create a list of Geant4 journals.
SB 42: JA has been waiting for input about journals to be considered but nothing received so far; N.Knoors may be involved in the process as soon as the list will be available. MGP took committment in volunteering in the restructure/update of the publications/reports/results web page. Also the maintenance of the "papers" repository is to be considered.
SB 44: JA proposes to create a list of journals for the selected publications. A page with up-to-date information already exists from the EM working-group web page.
SB 46: Material available by M.G.Pia from NSS paper.
SB 47: M.G.Pia can investigate with IEEE editors.
SB 49: Decided for the following journals: Computing Physics Communications, NIM, TNS and European Journal of Physics. Action closed. Action 32.7 complete SB 42 J.Apostolakis to circulate by mid-February 2005 a draft of the scientific goals of the Collaboration for the future years, as discussed at the 10th anniversary meeting at LAPP.
SB 40: Working on creating a draft of the scientific goals of the Collaboration.
SB 42: No assistance received on the matter. JA proposed to close the action item, considering that Collaboration-wide goals can always be considered and discussed within the Collaboration without need to have them in paper. Action 33.1 complete TSB 34 J.P.Wellisch to provide release schedule for the hadronic packages.
TSB 34: Work plan now published. Action 33.2 complete SB 42 Category coordinators to include a publication plan into the working group plans.
SB 42: To be verified in the working plans for 2007 and future. To be considered as rotine activity of each working group. Closed. Action 33.3 complete SB 38 J.Apostolakis to organize a meeting between principal authors of general paper to discuss possible next general publication.
TSB 34: Still working to the update of the General Paper.
SB 38: Done in Bordeaux workshop. Action 33.4 complete TSB 34 J.Apostolakis and M.Asai to contact MC2005 organizing committee to resolve the issues of the program: conflicting talks from Geant4.
TSB 34: Done. Action 33.5 complete TSB 34 Category coordinators to setup a discussion at next TSB meeting on Geant4 talks prepared for IEEE/NSS 2005 before submission.
TSB 34: There will be talks about applications of Geant4 rather than specific to the toolkit or involving collaborators. Action 33.6 complete SB 38 D.Wright to report on plans for SUN support at SLAC.
TSB 34: Technical support for systems installed at SLAC must be clarified.
SB 38: SLAC now supporting SUN in conjuction with STT. Action 33.7 complete TSB 34 Institution representatives to send mail addresses of laboratories to S.Incerti in order to receive official invitation letters and posters for the Workshop in Bordeaux.
TSB 34: Done. Action 34.1 complete SB 38 J.P.Wellisch to correct hadronic physics-list implementation to accommodate revised particles design, potentially by instantiating processes and models after physics list construction.
SB 38: Corrections implemented in release 8.0. Action 34.2 complete SB 40 Category Coordinators who are data providers, to provide to the Release Coordinator a short description about origins and credits for each distributed data library, to be put in the download web-page.
SB 39: Nothing new yet, should take action before release 8.1. GC will distribute reminder to physics coordinators.
SB 40: Done. Added to download page on web. Action 34.3 complete SB 39 M.Asai to figure out what to do with the "Space Applications" Hypernews Forum, currently empty.
TSB 35: A problem with firewalls was identified affecting several space Institutions. Investigating to trying to fix it.
SB 39: Forum advertised and now on use. Action 34.4 complete SB 38 G.Folger to review the requirements and current status for the migration of Bugzilla to Savannah.
SB 38: Bugzilla will be kept and supported by KEK. See new action 38.3. Action 34.5 complete SB 38 J.Apostolakis (or S.Incerti) to make the public announcement of the Bordeaux Geant4 Workshop.
TSB 35: JA will make formal announcement to geant4-announce.
SB 38: Done. Action 34.6 complete SB 39 Members of the TSB to clarify collaboration rules on category coordinators leaving the home institution.
SB 39: Replaced by new action 39.2 assigned to the spokesperson. Action 34.7 complete SB 42 J.Apostolakis to establish portal for recommending use of processes and physics lists.
SB 42: The physics list task force shold now take care of this. Item closed and to be reformulated as 42.1. Action 34.8 complete SB 42 Members of the TSB to identify geant4.com as not being part of Geant4.
SB 38: Explicit address made to the owner of the site. The site is still up at the current time of writing...
SB 39: Site still up despite address made. Only remaining venue: legal action and find institution that can guarantee such operation.
SB 42: Site now closed. Action 35.1 complete SB 44 J.Apostolakis to establish a task-force for investigating the data issue.
SB 39: JA to reinforce the task before release 8.1.
SB 42: DW has investigated issues related to the Neutron data library. Work still to be done though to create a real task force on the matter.
SB 44: Closed. Replaced by action 44.1. Action 35.2 complete SB 39 J.Apostolakis to contact CERN responsibles on potential distribution issues from the CERN web site. For the legal matters the CB should be involved.
SB 39: Replaced by new action 39.3. No substantiation of the claimed rights, after investigation. Action 35.3 complete SB 38 H.P.Wellisch to provide patches including fixes to the problem reports which required a fix and submit them to STT.
SB 38: H.P.Wellisch left. Responsibilities reassigned. Action 35.4 complete SB 38 J.Apostolakis to investigate usage of VRVS for meetings.
SB 38: Done. Action 35.5 complete SB 38 H.P.Wellisch and M.Maire to assure that the physics-lists and their constituent parts that are distributed rely on the components that are provided and tested by the providers of the underlying physics components in a one-to-one correspondance.
SB 38: Done, release 8.0. Action 35.6 complete SB 44 Physics coordinators to add chapter documenting design and usage of the physics-lists in the user's guide.
SB 42: Chapter not yet in the user's guide. Need to have the process steered eventually with the help of the Documentation manager.
SB 44: This should be made part of the mandate of the task-force. Closed and followed by new action 44.2. Action 35.7 complete SB 40 J.Apostolakis to check if a formal matter arises regarding new institution.
SB 40: Closed since JA (and anybody in the Board) does not remember what exacly eventually this action item means, although approved in the minutes when the item was open... Action 36.1 complete SB 38 Category Coordinators to evaluate first report and migration strategy to CLHEP 2.0.X and provide feedback on issues affecting move during the Geant4 8.0 release.
SB 38: Light migration implemented in release 8.0. Action 36.2 complete SB 38 G.Folger to prepare recommendations whether/how to redirect old pages to the new web site.
SB 38: Done, new web site in place with redirection mechanism. Action 36.3 complete SB 38 D.Wright to announce to the Collaboration the move to new web site design, giving a 2 weeks period for remarks and suggestions.
SB 38: New web site deployed as of February 13th. Action 37.1 complete SB 38 J.Apostolakis to organise a short teleconference, and once candidate tag for release 8.0 is in place, tests should be performed by a Physics Performance Group.
SB 38: Geant4 8.0 released. Action 37.2 complete SB 38 J.Apostolakis to announce when signatories to the new CA met or exceeded the 15 FTE threshold.
SB 38: Done. Action 37.3 complete SB 49 J.Apostolakis to produce a draft letter on behalf of the SB to providers of data libraries used in Geant4.
SB 49: Closed and merged with action 44.1. Action 37.4 complete SB 42 J.Apostolakis to write to J.P.Wellisch to enquire and clarify his status with respect to the Geant4 collaboration and determine release/copyright conditions for code submitted by him.
SB 39: D.Wright provided information about changes introduced since last months before HPW departure. Action item to be rephrased.
SB 42: No longer applicable. Actino iteme closed. Action 37.5 complete SB 38 D.Wright and A.Heikkinen to clarify what has been submitted and tagged by J.P.Wellisch since May 1st 2005.
SB 38: Done. Action 38.1 complete SB 42 J.Apostolakis to determine people/volunteers who can act as editors for the proposed publication on Physics Configurations.
SB 42: MGP is now contributing as editor. Item closed. Action 38.2 complete SB 48 H.Yoshida to prepare presentation for the next CC/SB meeting about the design study on UI-VIS joint GUI desktop.
SB 44: HY will get in touch with the visualization team and come up with a presentation, discussion session at the Geant4 Workshop in Hebden Bridge.
SB 48: No news received by HY, action closed since considered no longer relevant. Action 38.3 complete SB 43 S.Sadilov, G.Folger and T.Sasaki to define a plan of action for the migration of Bugzilla to KEK with clear responsibilities assigned for the maintenance of the tool.
SB 42: Work in progress at KEK for reating the new site. Waiting for dump of the old site from SS. Koichi Murakami will act as the maintainer in KEK.
SB 43: Bugzilla tool now installed in KEK and up to date. Action 38.4 complete SB 39 G.Folger to create a new mailing list geant4-sb@cern.ch including all members of the transitional Steering Board (collaborator members of the MoU era TSB).
SB 39: Done. Action 38.5 complete SB 39 K.Amako to circulate a proposal for the mandate, process of a workshop/meeting on the license and internal organisation.
SB 39: Done. Action 38.6 complete SB 40 Category coordinators to provide revisions (if not done yet) to J.Apostolakis for the list of the Geant4 lasting contributors for their category.
SB 39: To be reviewed in matter of license decision.
SB 40: License approved and governing since release 8.1. Action 38.7 complete SB 40 D.Wright and G.Folger to provide guidelines and short explanation on how to implement or revise pages according to the style and spirit of the new web site.
SB 39: DW will distribute guidelines soon.
SB 40: DW has distributed a text document with guidelines to SB. Action 39.1 complete SB 48 I.McLaren to document on web issues of improvements for system testing.
SB 42: Action item assigned to Ian McLaren.
SB 47: Document is available but not yet posted on the web.
SB 48: Closed as no longer relevant given the transition to the new system of LCG nightly being put in place. Action 39.2 complete SB 48 J.Apostolakis to draft and propose exact procedure to follow in the Collaboration for the transition of Geant4 members leaving the Collaboration or their home institutions.
SB 48: Proposal circulated to SB mailing list. Action 39.3 complete SB 40 J.Apostolakis to clarify legal issues affecting distribution of sensitive physics data.
SB 40: As long as non-sensitive materials are concerned, there is no problem with the Geant4 license now govering and the re-distribution of the data. T.Koi has a copy of the NJOY program for the packaging of the neutron data sources; DW will distribute the license text for the NJOY program. The action can be considered closed. Action 40.1 complete SB 42 J.Apostolakis to inform the local organizers of the Lisboa Geant4 Workshop about the structure of the meeting agreed by the preparatory group, and announce the Workshop to geant4-announce by July 20th.
SB 42: Workshop done. Closed. Action 40.2 complete SB 42 D.Wright to properly announce on Hypernews the problem affecting elastic scattering in release 8.1.
SB 42: Patch made and problem fixed. Closed. Action 41.1 complete SB 47 Physics list task force and examples coordinators, to clarify who has the responsibility for undertaking and reporting on testing, timing studies for physics list engines provided in the toolkit.
SB 47: The physics-list task force is now undertaking the effort and the item has been put in the work-plan for 2008. Closed. Action 41.2 complete SB 54 T.Sasaki and M.Asai, to clarify and document what part of Geant4 has the responsibility to kill tracks that come to a rest (?) This responsibility was moved from processes to tracking some time ago.
11-Jun-07: VI reports that defense against cases of zero velocity exist in both EM code and transportation.
SB 47: TS reports that a document is under preparation.
SB 53: TS reports that the document is almost ready.
SB 54: TS reported to the SB: the current implementation is decided as a quick solution for zero energy particles. The problem was happened when the energy of the particle becomes lower than zero during the process loop in SteppingManager as the result of summing up energy loss. But also this problem may happen inside a process. A process may have a hierarchy of processes inside and this has already happened for implementing event biasing. If a processes cannot handle particles with below zero energy, it is the limitation of the processes and it should be responsible for protecting from problems. All processes should check the energy of the particle if necessary. Still, it is not easy to check all of the processes and is agreed to provide the solution as a temporal solution. We should change the processes when we have a time not to loose generalities. For the treatment of electric field, we may prepare a new particle type for a stopping ion which only have the transportation process as a replica of the concerning particle. When the energy of the particle becomes zero, the original particle is killed and replaced with the new one. This helps to save CPU time. When the particle obtain some energy from the E-field, we may change the particle type again to the original one. Also a new process for handling electric fields will be necessary to implement the mechanism. Action 41.3 complete SB 48 Physics coordinators, to verify that all processes are tested at category-level and in system-integration testing.
11-Jun-07: VI reports that EM processes are all tested at unit level; what is missing is multi-platforms checks that can only be performed by STT.
SB 44: MGP reports that regression testing is performed for low-energy processes and would be nice to add those tests to the validation suite of A.Ribon.
SB 46: Needed report from STT and hadronics; requires splitting to two actions.
SB 48: Closed and rephrased in 48.4 for hadronics. Action 41.4 complete SB 48 Category coordinators, to review and revise the system tests relevant to their areas, assessing whether they are up to date, whether they test all relevant models and key functionalities.
11-Jun-07: The usage of physics-lists in the tests requires to be reviewed, particularly for the hadronic tests. EM tests are under control already.
SB 44: Issue to be considered as a topic for a parallel session in the Geant4 Workshop in Hebden Bridge.
SB 48: Closed and rephrased in 48.5 for Kobe Workshop. Action 41.5 complete SB 43 Working Group coordinators, to update the current list of contributors in their group.
SB 43: WG lists updated for the Project Review. Action 42.1 complete SB 46 Physics List task force, to establish portal for recommending use of processes and physics lists.
SB 44: GF reports that the work has started; something will be on the web for release 9.0; improvements are necessary still.
SB 46: Done. The web page is online now; still requiring improvements. Action 42.2 complete SB 48 J.Apostolakis, M.Asai and T.Sasaki, to investigate for eventually register .com, .int and .net domains.
SB 44: ".net" domain has been already taken by the European networking project GEANT initiative. ".com" domain is still available.
SB 46: According to T.Sasaki, .int domain can be taken, to be followed up.
SB 47: T.Sasaki reports that .info domain has been taken provisionally.
SB 48: J.Apostolakis will take care to put an action on the OB for defining who will be sponsoring .int domain. Now .org has become a mirror of the Geant4 web site at CERN. Action 42.3 complete SB 56 G.Folger, to enhance testing suite defining bug geometries for verifying behavior of tracking/physics with field, eventually use of GDML descriptions.
11-Jun-07: Tests in use by A.Ribon for the CMS and LHCb setups have to be placed in the tests area and usage of GDML must be enabled for STT.
SB 47: Tests are in place (benchmarks repository) but not yet regularly run by STT.
SB 49: New responsible G.Folger.
SB 53: GF and GC will get together to see how to integrate at the best the relevant benchmarks in regular system testing.
SB 54: Still open, being included in testing.
SB 55: GF will introduce the test in regular STT within next week.
SB 56: Done. CMS banchmark included in regular STT. Action 42.4 complete SB 43 V.Ivantchenko, to report on progress on the problems reported by ATLAS when running with Geant4 8.2.
SB 43: Done. Action 42.5 complete SB 47 I.McLaren, to report on the use done by clients at CERN of development releases installed in the AFS area.
SB 47: No statistics available at the moment and no manpower available to perform the research. Use of development releases in the AFS area are certainly important also for internal Geant4 use. Closed. Action 42.6 complete SB 43 V.Ivantchenko, to bring together people to review collaboration on biasing and discussion on results.
SB 43: Done. Action 42.7 complete SB 43 G.Cosmo, to contact coordinators whose modules are involved in the development on tunable tolerance.
SB 43: Done. Action 42.8 complete SB 43 W.Pokorski, to provide reasonably complex HEP experiment setups, using realistic geometries taken from recent LHC detector descriptions (including potential overlaps) and create simple corresponding tests.
SB 43: Done. Gemetries for CMS and LHCb provided by WP and tests implemented by A.Ribon. Action 43.1 complete SB 44 J.Apostolakis, to collect and distribute questions from reviewers for the April Geant4 review.
SB 44: Done. Action 43.2 complete SB 44 SB members, to forward questions for clarification on users input to both Charly Young and John Apostolakis.
SB 44: Done. Action 43.3 complete SB 49 D.Wright, to contact Tatsumi Koi and Alex Howard for implementing a test for monitoring performance for physics including neutron-HP model.
SB 47: New responsible D.Wright.
SB 49: Decided to close the action but issue to be still followed up in the context of regression testing suite. Action 43.4 complete SB 44 Category Coordinators to review the document on 2007 planned developments and provide feedback and exact schedule to Gabriele Cosmo.
SB 44: Done. Action 43.5 complete SB 46 Physics-list task force, to provide work plans, including development items by the next Steering Board meeting.
SB 46: Done. Action 44.1 complete SB 52 J.Apostolakis and D.Wright to come up with a mission assigned to the task-force for investigating the data issue.
SB 49: Merged from 37.3 but no specific action so far...
SB 51: Not yet discussed. Identified people from the space community interested to donate data in G4NDL format.
SB 52: J.Apostolakis sent to D.Wright and the Steering Board a proposed mission. Closed. Action 44.2 complete SB 53 Physics-list task force to add chapter documenting design and usage of the physics-lists in the user's guide.
SB 49: A web page is in place, but not on the design.
SB 53: No chapter yet in the user guide, but should focus for the time being to have the web page finalized, mainly on the usage topics than the design. Proposed to be closed... Action 44.3 complete SB 51 J.Apostolakis to contact copyright holders about the possibility of making Geant4 becoming a trademark.
SB 46: Discussed on the SB. JA to encourage the OB to establish a process for registering Geant4 as a trademark.
SB 49: The OB has been contacted and arranged to discuss with sponsors and P.Nieminen.
SB 51: People contacted, but received no feedback. Action 44.4 complete SB 51 J.Apostolakis to identify by mid-July responsibles for assessing and provide (by the Geant4 Workshop in Hebden Bridge) current and potential actions for each detailed recommendation provided by reviewers in the 2007 review.
SB 46,47: J.Apostolakis and M.Asai will propose a task-force membership for responding to Review recommendations in view of the future Delta Review.
SB 49: Still open and throbbing...
SB 51: Done. Action 45.1 complete SB 46 M.Asai to develop full mandate to a small team for assessing the report from the Geant4 Review 2007 and recommend actions.
SB 46: Done. Provided to SB. Action 45.2 complete SB 52 M.Asai to reinvigorate the Architecture Task Force and define a proposal for the first 'target' issues by 31 January 2008.
SB 49: No action still... let's call it "Task Force" instead of "Working Group" and let's see if something happens...
SB 52: Put aside to Geant4 design review in 2010... Action closed. Action 45.3 complete SB 46 D.Wright to inform group members of the result of the reorganization of the Hadronic Working Group and solicit comments from group members who could not be present at the discussion of leadership change and election.
SB 46: Done. Action 46.1 complete SB 51 J.Apostolakis to circulate to SB the details on the total FTE numbers (28) for the Geant4 manpower status.
SB 49: Document not circulated yet, status must be updated according to the recent working-groups review.
SB 51: Done. Action 46.2 complete SB 47 D.Wright to report about investigation on the lack of charge exchange process.
SB 47: F.jones is looking at the original Geisha code, also researching for better charge exchange cross-sections. DW and V.Ivantchenko are currently working on this and the item is put in the work plan for 2008. Closed. Action 46.3 complete SB 52 M.Verderi to arrange for putting in place a new HN Forum on Biasing and Scoring.
SB 52: Done. Hypernews Forum created. Action 46.4 complete SB 47 J.Apostolakis to draft a response letter to RSICC and circulate it to the SB by e-mail.
SB 47: Done. Mail circulated and sent. Action 46.5 complete SB 47 J.Apostolakis and M.Asai to propose a task-force membership for responding to Review recommendations in view of the future Delta Review.
SB 47: Closed since clashing with 44.4. Action 47.1 complete SB 53 Physics-List task force to verify which advanced examples make use of the physics lists and identify those that can be run by STT as standard testing.
SB 49: Pending full transition to new nightly system for testing.
SB 52: Leave pending for another month for having a complete picture.
SB 53: Proposed to close this action and replace it with a new one 53.1; advanced examples are already being used by STT in a good part, and some of the advanced examples (hadrontherapy, for instance) will be extended soon to use different physics-lists. Action 47.2 complete SB 49 D.Wright to prepare item for discussion at the next Steering Board meeting concerning the proposal for a Fortran interface to DPMJET in Geant4.
SB 49: See proposal advanced by D.Wright and discussion at SB 49. Closed. Action 47.3 complete SB 53 Category Coordinators and STT to review all the system tests, address reported failures, reduce potential redundancy, cover fuctions or models not tested and create clear conditions for success.
SB 51: 66% of the work is achieved. Action to be closed when reached 80%.
SB 53: The situation is now better with system testing success rate; dediced to split this action in a new one 53.2 related to testing coverage. Proposed to be closed... Action 47.4 complete SB 48 G.Cosmo to propose process for gathering tags with fixes for patches to previous releases.
SB 48: Proposal circulated and approved. Action 48.1 complete SB 49 J.Apostolakis to communicate with people who departed the low-energy WG and verify if they wish to continue contribute in this area of development.
SB 49: Done. Action 48.2 complete SB 49 J.Apostolakis, M.Asai to update the Collaboration membership list and determine the list of people who have right to vote for the spokesman election by April 24th.
SB 49: Done. Action 48.3 complete SB 51 M.Asai to define realistic target for development on process-based event biasing.
SB 51: Coupled with the US funding proposal. To be closed. Action 48.4 complete SB 51 D.Wright, G.Folger to verify that all hadronic processes are tested at category-level and in system-integration testing.
SB 51: Verification done. Action 48.5 complete SB 51 Category coordinators, to review and revise the system tests relevant to their areas, assessing whether they are up to date, whether they test all relevant models and key functionalities and prepare a report to be presented at the next Geant4 Collaboration Workshop in Kobe.
SB 51: Done. Action 49.1 complete SB 51 D.Wright, to circulate proposal for unifying the table of isotopes in use in the hadronic code.
SB 51: Done and implementation achieved. Action 49.2 complete SB 51 S.Incerti, to provide to J.Apostolakis and M.Asai a proposal for people joining the group with their area of activity and expected contributions in the EM low-energy domain.
SB 51: Done. Action 49.3 complete SB 52 S.Incerti, to advance official proposal to the SB for the Geant4-DNA project.
SB 51: the list of items is ready, not clear yet for the project funding; clearer perspectives will come as of April 2009. SI will circulate the list of items to the SB mailing list.
SB 52: Proposal sent to SB. Action closed. Action 49.4 complete SB 53 G.Folger, to provide updated list of tests and examples with macros currently run regularly by system testing, keep it up to date and make it easily accessible from the STT pages.
SB 51: list exists but is not yet available from web pages.
SB 53: page in place reachable from the STT pages. Closed. Action 49.5 complete SB 53 V.Ivantchenko, to include in the official documentation of Geant4 a chapter on the physics-list and EM options available + applicability.
SB 51: not done yet, but planning to have a first version included in the documentation for release 9.2.
SB 52: status to be confirmed still.
SB 53: can be found in chapter 5.3 of the Users' Guide for Application Developers. Closed. Action 51.1 complete SB 52 G.Cuttone, to discuss with Fluka people the item raised by the reviewers in recommendation #6.
SB 52: Done. No convergence for potential interface. Action closed. Action 51.2 complete SB 54 D.Wright, to provide comprehensive view of what is currently tested for the hadronics in the existing testing suite, and make it available from the web, in response to item raised by the reviewers in recommendation #8.
SB 53: work started.
SB 54: essentially complete, though some updates may be required. Web page available for comments. Action 51.3 complete SB 55 Category Coordinators (EM/HAD physics, geometry/field, generic processes and documentation), to start drafting relevant information for CPU perfomance guide on Twiki. Response to item raised by the reviewers in recommendation #12.
SB 52: first draft of Twiki page edited by J.Apostolakis and available. Some additions committed by V.Ivantchenko. Still missing contributions.
SB 53: Twiki page
SB 54: Draft available (see above). Followup action is to contact K.Amako.
SB 55: Page now exists and can be published. Closed. Action 51.4 complete SB 59 M.Verderi, to draft performance optimisation guide for existing biasing techniques to be linked to Twiki. Response to item raised by the reviewers in recommendation #14.
SB 52: changed responsible from J.Apostolakis to M.Verderi.
SB 57: M.Verderi will provide the document on early March 2010.
SB 58: draft sent by M.Verderi (not yet in Twiki format, to be uploaded). Provisionally done. To be closed once uploaded.
SB 59: Twiki format of guide is now ready. Link to be circulated and be added it to the performance Twiki. Action Closed. Action 51.5 complete SB 57 Category Coordinators, to identify responsible in each Category for running benchmarks and provide progress every other month.
SB 55: Related to CPU benchmarks.
SB 56: It should be added a deadline by which this process should be put in place.
SB 57: Closed. Category Coordinators are set as responsible. The item is refocussed as part of the ongoing discussion on performance. Action 51.6 complete SB 52 J.Apostolakis, to organise phone meeting in early January 2009 for discussing work-plan proposals for 2009 and beyond.
SB 52: done. Closed. Action 52.1 complete SB 58 M.Verderi to organise meeting within one month for discussing proposal for double differential cross-section.
SB 58: Meeting held at CERN. Minutes circulated (to be linked in the WG web page). Closed. Action 52.2 complete SB 54 H.Kurasige to inform on potential impact of the particle-change revision listed in work-plan for 2009.
SB 54: No impact for minor releases. Action 52.3 complete SB 53 J.Apostolakis, M.Asai to inform people involved regarding the position of the Geant4 SB for the "Nano5" project and use of the Geant4 CVS repository.
SB 53: done, but received no answer from the interested parties. Action 53.1 complete SB 57 Physics list task force, to verify existence and put in place in regular system testing of at least one test exercising every single physics-list.
SB 54: some progress, but independend from the code in advanced examples: two advanced examples making direct use of reference physics lists, and two other examples re-use builders. The majority of examples create their own physics list from processes and models; GF provided table.
SB 55: progress made but some lists still need to be added.
SB 56: several lists tested but not all of them; everything but the obsolete ones should be added; two benchmarks included which are run with two or more lists; test30 to be included still.
SB 57: Done. Tests in place since mid-December 2009. Action 53.2 complete SB 67 Category Coordinators, to check coverage of system testing for their own category, report to the SB and extend testing where needed.
SB 56: for EM standard everything is now tested. The coverage for the hadronics is documented in a web page.
SB 57: for EM low-energy internal tests for all models exist. The coverage in system testing must be verified.
SB 58: Still open. To collect links to documents summarising testing coverage.
SB 59: Still open. To be followed up with other category coordinators.
SB 60: Both EM and low-EM provide full coverage; geometry is OK, only required to update traceability matrix document; hadronics has a web page summarising the current status; there will be soon a web interface for testing in low-EM; for scoring, still completing test cases, expecting to be complete by next release; materials functionalities are all tested.
SB 61: The report for digits_hits for the scorers is not yet complete. Also missing tests on divisions in geometry. Still missing reverse_MC; an example exists but it is not executed by STT, should be added to the testing suite. The 'error_propagation' is covered in TestEm17.
SB 62: All digits_hits tests are now included; divisions in geometry still missing.
SB 63: Still open. Still missing divisions.
SB 64: Still open. To cover also testing for scoring. Missing divisions in geometry. To review also coverage for reverse_MC. For hadronics, all reference physics-lists are in testing; should also list physics models which are not tested.
SB 65: Still open.
SB 66: Still open. Added tests for reverse_MC. Still missing scoring and divisions. Also in EM multiple-scattering needs to address a hole in testing coverage. Should also be checked that all physics models are covered, including related energy ranges. Traceability matrix for the geometry exists and is linked from the geometry WG page (needs to be brought up-to-date). New action to Category Coordinators to create document linking all information. To review the status at the Collaboration Meeting in SLAC.
SB 67: Decided to split this action into separate individual ones assigned to each WG coordinator for each missing test. Action closed. Action 54.1 complete SB 59 J.Apostolakis to propose a revision to the regulations for addressing publication policy and update 2006 document.
SB 55: Document is available from the SB meeting agenda of July 2006.
SB 58: Still open. Discussion item at SB-58.
SB 59: Document now available. Action to be closed. Update to the regulations to be done and put into a new action. Action 55.1 complete SB 60 Multi-thread team to provide report and proposal within first quarter of 2010.
SB 57: JA will communicate this to G.Cooperman.
SB 58: Report received; linked to SB-58 meeting agenda. Still open for deliberables.
SB 60: Prototype for 9.4-Beta is ready; proposed to release a public Beta version of the prototype during the Collaboration Workshop at ESTEC. A draft planning document is now provided. Closed. Action 55.2 complete SB 58 Category Coordinators to identify responsible for documentation or physics models whose original authors have departed Geant4.
SB 56: no progress yet for the hadronics; still to identify models which require intervention.
SB 58: Responsible identified, to put information on web page. Closed. Action 55.3 complete SB 56 Physics Coordinators to propose a joint candidate representative for being part of the Architecture Team.
SB 56: proposal from D.Wright received. Closed. Action 55.4 complete SB 56 P.Cirrone to identify examples which require code review and invite coordinators to arrange a review of the parts corresponding to their area of responsibility.
SB 56: done for the advanced examples. Closed. Action 56.1 complete SB 61 G.Folger, G.Cosmo to assess suitability of SVN for development model adopted in Geant4.
SB 57: Bulk of the problem is the missing possibility to utilize sticky tags in SVN. If no alternative technical solution is possible for overcoming this, suitability of SVN for the development model currently adopted in Geant4 cannot be determined.
SB 58: No progress yet; on going.
SB 59: Some progress but too early yet to conclude the assessment. Student trying to setup a snapshot of the repository as prototype for testing; still to adapt all scripts around it before actually migrate.
SB 60: A report and demo will be given at the Collaboration Workshop at ESTEC. An experimental prototype repository is available for testing.
SB 61: Report given at the Geant4 Collaboration Workshop at ESTEC. The transition to SVN has been approved by the SB. Closed. Action 56.2 complete SB 58 J.Apostolakis to report by next SB on confirmation of location for the 2010 Geant4 Collaboration Workshop.
SB 58: Done; will be ESTEC. Closed. Action 57.1 complete SB 60 J.Apostolakis, to clarify (copyright, license) status of M.Kossov contribution.
SB 58: M.Kossov verbally agreed for distribution; written note to be made.
SB 59: Contribution at CERN is owned by CERN, as such it is covered by the Geant4 license. Action still open for the written note.
SB 60: No problem foreseen after establishment of the publication board. M.Kossov has accepted that code can be distributed. Closed. Action 57.2 complete SB 58 M.Asai to report on the results of the census.
SB 58: Presented at SB-58. Closed. Action 57.3 complete SB 60 M.Asai, to propose process for selection/nomination/election of AAE (Abstract Assessment and Editorial) team - target date end of February.
SB 58: To be discussed at meeting SB-58.
SB 59: Done. Three active members part of the AAE. Still open until process for the election of the board will be defined.
SB 60: Done. Closed. Action 59.1 complete SB 60 J.Apostolakis to review regulations for addressing publication policy and updated document.
SB 60: Done. Closed. Action 59.2 complete SB 64 M.Asai to send notification to lapsed members following the census.
SB 60: Only one case considered so far. M.Asai takes over from J.Apostolakis. MA and JA will send to G.Folger the list of collaborators.
SB 61: Proposed to postpone to next census due in 2 months. Still open.
SB 63: The target date for the census is set for February 16th 2011.
SB 64: Done. Closed. Action 59.3 complete SB 60 M.Asai to track the collaborator's physical attendance to workshops and conferences in this summer/fall.
SB 60: Done. Closed. Action 60.1 complete SB 63 M.Asai to propose and add regulation on acceptance of the license agreement to the Collaboration Agreement Regulations document.
SB 61: Agreed to correct the text in "acceptance of the license agreement". Proposed to introduce an electronic agreement to access SVN repository with reference to the Collaboration Agreement. Still open, M.Asai will propose text.
SB 62: Still open, Marc and Makoto will draft this in time for the migration planned in January 2011.
SB 63: Implemented. Action closed. Action 60.2 complete SB 61 P.Gueye, P.Gumplinger to follow up on proposals by SB members concerning the revised process for the spokesperson election.
SB 61: One point still to agree upon (make public exact tally or not). The election team and SB can decide if to make it known or not before the vote casting starts and the candidates are known. To be closed. Action 60.3 complete SB 61 D.Wright to update editors list for MC2010 publications.
SB 61: Done. Closed. Action 60.4 complete SB 62 SB members to review the draft Editor Guidelines document and send comments to Publication Board for being finalized by the next SB meeting and append it to the Publication Regulations.
SB 61: Still open. To finalize at next SB meeting.
SB 62: Being discussed at this meeting; guidelines distributed and finalized. Proposed to close. Action 60.5 complete SB 67 Publication Board to create a prototype system for editing the list of speakers (using hypernews, indico/confluence, and/or other...).
SB 62: Progress in making the prototype, but not yet complete; will be distributed to SB by the next SB meeting.
SB 63: Decided to go ahead with Indico as the tool; still to find the way to properly set permissions. Need to set a separate category for Indico to go ahead with this. J.Apostolakis is in charge of this. Still open.
SB 64: Still open for automation.
SB 65: Contemplating move to Drupal as replacement, to allow for setting correct permissions, as Indico can't apparently handle this. Still open.
SB 66: Need to define a scheme by which sensitive information is circulated by email first and than published to the Collaboration once an agreement is reached. This way, Indico would be just good. Still open.
SB 67: System implemented and presented at SLAC Workshop. Action closed. Action 60.6 complete SB 62 Publication Board to formulate proposal for practice talks on fall-2010 conferences (SNA+MC2010, CHEP2010, IEEE NSS 2010).
SB 62: Done. Closed. Action 60.7 complete SB 62 Category Coordinators to prepare report on at-risk deliverables for release 9.4 by the next SB meeting at the Collaboration Workshop in ESTEC.
SB 61: Category coordinators should look at the items of proposed in 2010 and report to GC if any of the promised items will not make it in 2010.
SB 62: Done. Closed. Action 60.8 complete SB 61 G.Folger to enable OB members to access SB meeting agenda and items.
SB 61: Done. Closed. Action 61.1 complete SB 63 M.Asai, G.Folger, to put in place a lock system for first access to the new SVN repository forcing the acknowledgement of the Geant4 regulations and license terms.
SB 62: To be discussed at this meeting. Has to be investigated if can be done by simple email exchange or, as originally proposed, as a text printed the first time SVN is accessed, with access granted after explicit acknowledgement.
SB 63: Done. Closed. Action 61.2 complete SB 62 J.Apostolakis, to provide to the Steering Board the final report document of the Architecture Review.
SB 62: Document provided yesterday, linked to the agenda of this meeting. To be considered completed and closed in one week. Proposed to close. Action 61.3 complete SB 63 K.Murakami, to investigate and propose a prototype for a "requirement tracking system", based on a suitable tool.
SB 62: To be discussed at this meeting. Tool proposed is JIRA. Now working on setting up a prototype.
SB 63: Prototype is now in place. Closed. Action 61.4 complete SB 62 K.Murakami, to activate weekly Bugzilla reminders for problem reports not closed or fixed.
SB 62: To be discussed at this meeting and activated already this week. To be closed. Action 61.5 complete SB 67 M.Asai, G.Folger, to implement and propose a starting date for putting in place a "shift system" for system testing.
SB 63: Starting with one of the volunteers (A.Dotti) to exercise it. Not yet ready to put the shift system in place.
SB 64: Still open. Gunter is working on improving the documentation for testing.
SB 65: Started with A.Dotti as volunteer for the last 3 weeks, so now ready to start. Document to be finalized still and then be exercised with a new volunteer; M.Asai willing to volunteer; the web page is reachable from the STT WG page.
SB 66: G.Folger will send link to instructions document to M.Asai who volunteer to try out; also D.Wright and M.Verderi are volunteering. The topic will be addressed at the Collaboration Meeting in SLAC for training. Still open.
SB 67: SB members will start shifts until end 2011. Collaborator members will be involved from 2012. Action to be closed. Action 61.6 complete SB 63 H.Kurashige and Architecture Team, to identify and provide to the Steering Board a list of priority items for revision including potential items for the 2011 work plan, derived from the final report document of the Architecture Review.
SB 62: To be discussed at this meeting. Hisaya will circulate a first list of priority items by early January.
SB 63: Proposed revision items in this meeting. Closed. Action 62.1 complete SB 63 G.Cosmo, to prepare a calendar for the next 2011 December release anticipated of two weeks.
SB 63: Posted at this meeting. Closed. Action 62.2 complete SB 64 V.Ivantchenko, to clarify and eventually address issue raised by LHCb at last November TF concerning visible energy.
SB 63: First report available. Plan to nominate A.Dotti as "liaison" person for the LHCb experiment. Action remains open for further update.
SB 64: The issue has been presented and discussed at the last Technical Forum, and clarification has been made. Visible energy is stable across releases since long time. Action closed. Action 63.1 complete SB 68 M.Asai to set up a task force for defining support model for Geant4-MT and implement all necessary steps for the public distribution of the prototype based on release 9.4.
SB 64: Still open. A new action is being created on M.Asai to pursue on the creation of a new Hypernews Forum dedicated to this. A prototype download page has been created.
SB 65: Still open.
SB 67: Still open. Gene and Xin will be at SLAC on early October and a concrete plan will be prepared.
SB 68: Done. Closed. Action 62.3 complete SB 64 A.Dotti to report on the last performance measurement on release 9.4, including findings on the potential 3% CPU penalty.
SB 63: First report available. Source of the penalty is not yet understood. Will ask to A.Dotti to verify if the 10% memory increase observed by ATLAS with 9.4 can be reproduced with the existing benchmarks. Still open.
SB 64: A.Dotti reported this as a false alarm; problem no longer there since installed new machine based on SLC5. Action closed. Action 63.2 complete SB 64 H.Kurasige to follow up polishing of architecture review document for distribution to public.
SB 64: Done. Closed. Action 63.3 complete SB 64 G.Cosmo to announce to the Collaboration the detailed schedule for the June release and final December release 9.5.
SB 64: Done. Closed. Action 63.5 complete SB 67 K.Murakami to collect comments by the Steering Board on the current JIRA prototype, finalize and announce the final tracking system by next Technical Forum meeting in March 2011.
SB 64: No progress. Feedback received from Makoto; improvements will be implemented based on the feedback. Still open.
SB 65: Still open.
SB 66: Should comment on the text to add regarding the tool open for read-only and how to propose new requirements.
SB 67: Delivered. Action closed. Action 63.6 complete SB 67 S.Incerti to verify that splitting of EMLOW data and removal of obsolete old classes does not cause significant impact to user's code or break compatibility with code in other modules/categories.
SB 64: Old DNA and Penelope classes have been removed already in latest reference tag "geant4-09-04-ref-03". Old Livermore classes are still in the code base, old standard EM classes as well. Still open.
SB 65: Still open, planning full removal by December release. Still to complete the upgrade to the new interface.
SB 66: V.Ivantchenko reports that DNA size of data is much less than the rest of the data, so there is no reason for now to split the data set. Still to complete the removal of obsolete classes (currently used by the eRosita example and 'pii' module); agreed to create a tag where these classes are removed and provide a recipe on how to migrate.
SB 67: Done. Example 'eRosita' fails compilation. Author informed. To be closed. Action 64.1 complete SB 67 M.Asai to better clarify 2011 work item on physics-lists and modify description in the plan.
SB 65: Still open.
SB 66: Need to update the run category work-plan in the detailed list and the one in the run-category. New action item on Makoto.
SB 67: Done, updated. Action closed. Action 64.2 complete SB 67
M.Verderi to create workplan for forced interaction biasing option.
SB 65: Workplan circulated at this meeting. To follow up open issues to make it concrete. Still open.
SB 66: Document provided and underlying the difficulty to implement the forced interaction. Problem is likely in the transportation. Requires discussion within the architecture team. Keep it open.
SB 67: Issue clarified. Action closed. Action 64.3 complete SB 65 V.Ivantchenko to mark in the 2011 plan those work items for EM which are at risk with a (*).
SB 65: Done. Closed. Action 64.4 complete SB 65 A.Dotti, G.Folger, D.Elvira to define strategy for adding regular monitoring of memory usage between releases.
SB 65: D.Elvira circulated a report last week to SB, and a strategy is defined. Closed. Action 64.5 complete SB 68 M.Asai to pursue on the creation of a new Hypernews Forum for Geant4-MT.
SB 65: Currently pending the release of Geant4-MT. Still open.
SB 66: Still open. Should happen during the summer.
SB 67: Still open; waiting for release of Geant4-MT.
SB 68: Done. Closed. Action 65.1 complete SB 67 H.Kurasige to distribute to SB document about new mechanism for process ordering in physics-lists, and collect feedback in one week scale.
SB 66: Prototyped and available in 9.5-Beta. Hisaya should report before closing.
SB 67: Implementation done. Discussed at SLAC workshop. Closed. Action 65.2 complete SB 66 M.Asai to pursue further discussion on exception code format and come to an agreement.
SB 66: To be closed. Final proposal presented at this meeting. Action 66.1 complete SB 68 Category Coordinators to provide a tracebility table accessible from their working group web page, where status of testing coverage is documented.
SB 67: Still open. To be verified at every SB meeting.
SB 68: Closed. Will create an action 66.1a/b/c... for each WG and close the general action. Action 66.1a complete SB 69 D.Wright to provide a tracebility table accessible from the hadronics working group web page, where status of testing coverage is documented.
SB 69: Completed 4 January 2012. See updated table. Closed. Action 66.1b complete SB 69 V.Ivantchenko and S.Incerti to provide a tracebility table accessible from the EM working group web pages, where status of testing coverage is documented.
SB 69: Added web page describing the testing coverage of both EM low energy and standard. Closed Action 66.2 complete SB 68 M.Asai to provide text for physics-list work item to be included in the detailed work-plan and 'run' category plan.
SB 67: Still open.
SB 68: Done, now there. Closed. Action 66.3 complete SB 69 V.Ivantchenko to provide documentation on the use of variable density feature in the official manuals.
SB 67: Still open. Should be provided by the release 9.5.
SB 68: Still open.
SB 69: Documented in the Application Developers manual. To be closed. Action 67.2 complete SB 70 M.Verderi and M.Asai to populate new JIRA requirements tracking system.
SB 68: Still open. Will be also followed up at this meeting.
SB 69: Populated since the last TF; should monitor all open items in JIRA regularly at every SB meeting; will start from next SB. Still open.
SB 70: Done. Linked from the "user support" pages. Monitored at each SB meeting from now on. Closed. Action 67.3 complete SB 70 J.Perl and G.Cosmo to set up a working group for defining DICOM interface to be included in kernel under persistency category.
SB 68: Still open.
SB 69: Made some contacts but still to finalize. Still open.
SB 70: Group now setup. Work remains to be done. A work item will be put in the persistency WG work plan. Closed. Action 68.1 complete SB 69 A.Dotti, D.Elvira, G.Folger, G.Cosmo to organize a 9.5 post-mortem meeting for CPU performance testing, to agree on physics configurations and tests to profile.
SB 69: Done. See D.Elvira report at the meeting. Closed. Action 69.1 complete SB 70 M.Asai, M.Verderi to setup regular review of the JIRA tasks from TF as part of regular item in SB meetings.
SB 70: Now regularly discussed at SB meetings and part of the regular items. Closed.