2016 Work Plan
The 2016 Work Plan is divided into four categories, with responsible members and approximate deadlines (end of calendar-year quarters) listed. Some items are carried over from 2015 (deadlines shown in
bold). Some items carried over are: TBD (To be decided, or still to be done?)
- Documentation Structure
- Documentation Content
- Web Site Content
- Videos
Last updated: 11 February 2016
| Task |
Responsible |
Due |
| Periodic Release of Documents |
Alex |
Throughout 2016 |
| Identify separable parts of Physics Manual, provide top-level XML to generate multiple "books" for each chapter, in addition to the single document. Can EM be split into two or more parts? |
TBD |
2Q |
| Identify separable parts of App.Dev., provide top-level XML to generate multiple "books" as above. Can Tracking and Physics be split into two or more parts? |
TBD |
2Q |
| General review of documentation (especially with respect to language and completeness) |
Alex, Dennis |
2Q |
| Task |
Responsible |
Due |
| Produce a documentation Style Guide (or point to example chapter properly formatted) to support members and developers in contributing to the XML documentation in a consistent format. |
TBD, I. Hrivnacova |
2Q |
| Expand the particle HP section in PRM and application guide |
P. Arce |
1Q (patch release)
E-mail query |
Unify markup of source code entities (classes, functions, parameters): bold, monospace, whatever, but should be the same all the way through. Maybe define a content-oriented markup tag (a la "<Code>" in HTML) to be used throughout? |
All |
2Q |
| Automatic documentation generation of Physics Lists |
A. Dotti, D. Wright |
4Q |
| Update of INCL++ documentation |
D. Mancusi |
4Q |
| Finish and publish G4 general paper |
D. Wright |
1Q |
| Maintenance of the geometry/persistency chapters in the manuals |
G. Cosmo |
4Q |
| building/installing Doxygen documentation for the examples as part of main build process (nightlies), |
B. Morgan |
4Q |
| Improve documentation of hadronic physics |
A. Ribon |
4Q |
| Basic and extended Examples Documentation |
Ivana |
4Q |
| biasing documentation |
M. Verderi |
4Q |
| support documentation for EM physics |
V. Ivantchenko |
4Q |
| Maintain and update documentation for hadronic models â low energy neutrons, G4ENDL, particle_hp, QMD |
T. Koi |
4Q |
| Provide close review of release notes, installation guides and our overall face that we show to our less expert users with eye towards helping these users understand how to get up and running and stay up and running |
J. Perl |
4Q |
| Task |
Responsible |
Due |
| Investigate migration of Web site to modern content management system, such as Drupal at CERN. Includes investigating capability to provide protected/internal Web areas and public/unprotected areas, along with continued Web access to tags database. |
G. Folger, A. Howard |
2Q? |
| (Steering Board Action Item 75.10) Expand Web pages of publications, validation results, and external citations, per suggestion from 2012 external review. |
TBD, Wright |
Ongoing |
| (Steering Board Action Item 75.10) "Better Web "advertising" of GEANT4 achievements" |
Howard, Morgan, Garnier |
Ongoing |
| (Steering Board Action Item 75.9) "Consult with the responsible parties for different documentation/common Web page areas to develop a consistent interface" |
Howard |
Ongoing |
| web presence: host the generated Doxygen on the website |
B. Morgan |
4Q |
| command guidance, built-in commands and associated CLI html creation |
J. Allison |
4Q |
| consider our web-presence |
A. Howard |
4Q |
| Task |
Responsible |
Due |
| Gather movies related to geant4 made by collaborators and try to find a way to have a better visibility |
L. Garnier |
2Q? |
| Investigate central repository for video information - demonstrations, tutorials, publicity. Consider creating our own youtube, vimeo, whatever page. |
Laurent, Marc |
3Q? |