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Action 9.6
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. Actions from TSB Meeting 10 (25th January 2001) Action 10.3
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. New Actions from TSB Meeting 13 (06 July 2001) Action 13.2
Architecture working group to formulate new User Requirement Document.
TSB 18: will be discussed in the architecture WG meeting by end of April 2002. New Actions from TSB Meeting 15 (20 November 2001) Action 15.6
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. New Actions from TSB Meeting 16 (6 February 2002) Action 16.1
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
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. New Actions from TSB Meeting 18 (11 April 2002) Action 18.1
G.Folger to evaluate, design and implement a registration mechanism for Beta testers of development releases. Action 18.2
G.Folger & G.Cosmo to estimate resources needed for Web restructuring, involving physics WG coordinators. Action 18.3
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
S.Sadilov to add a "bug-fix" flag for tags submitted in Bonsai, with possibility to hook to Bugzilla problem reports. Action 18.5
G.Folger & G.Cosmo to implement a more intuitive web form buttons-based for downloads of source-code/binaries. Action 18.6
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
Y.Morita to circulate proposal for persistency to TSB and experiments' representatives by mid-May 2002. Action 18.8
Y.Morita & S.Sadilov, to clarify policy for support of Objectivity/DB at CERN. Action 18.9
Architecture WG, to evaluate necessary resources for preparing new revision of general URD and implement it by September 2002. Action 18.10
S.Sadilov to make available for testing new web tool for requirements collection & analysis, by April 19th 2002. Action 18.11
S.Sadilov to make available link for Tinderbox and LXR from internal web pages. Action 18.12
J.Apostolakis to nominate responsible for general editing/maintenance of training kit. Action 18.13
All WG coordinators, to update training kit material according to recent improvements from SLAC Users' Workshop. Action 18.14
M.Asai to present proposal for redesign of G4Exception to Category Coordinators mailing list.
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 9.9 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 9.5 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 9.10 complete TSB 12 Software Management Team to provide results of Solaris 7.1 / CC++ 5.1 certification for Geant4. 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 11.4 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 11.11 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 11.15 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 11.17 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 9.7 complete TSB 13 M.Asai to respond to request for facility to specify lifetime for each instance of the B-meson. 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 11.12 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 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 12.3 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 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 11.9 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 11.13 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 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 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 13.1 complete TSB 15 J.Apostolakis to nominate architecture working group. 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 13.6 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 14.2 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 14.5 complete TBS 15 J.Apostolakis to nominate category coordinator to make plans in view of AIDA evolution. 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 14.11 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 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 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 12.2 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 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 14.6 complete TSB 16 S.Sadilov to obtain tests of concrete parameterisation models to be included in the testing procedure. 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 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 15.4 complete TSB 16 J.Apostolakis to send to CB chair a request to finalise the review report. Action 15.7 complete TSB 16 S.Sadilov to add automatic reminder notification to the problem reporting system. 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 11.16 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 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 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 14.8 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 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 15.5 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