ROOT Team Meeting

Europe/Zurich
32/1-A24 (CERN)

32/1-A24

CERN

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Axel Naumann (CERN), Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)
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Videoconference
ROOT Team Meeting
Zoom Meeting ID
97374667082
Host
Axel Naumann
Alternative hosts
Lorenzo Moneta, Danilo Piparo, Vincenzo Eduardo Padulano, Bertrand Bellenot, Jakob Blomer, Enrico Guiraud
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ROOT meeting 13/02

News

- 3 new macOS runners added to the CI
- Note: e-mail received regarding the difference in the colors (completed, WIP, not started) seen in for the tasks in the Plan of Work 2022.
Concluding that some tasks require a lot of effort and that granularity (maybe) should be at the level of sub-task.

Shift handover

- Lorenzo: nothing special to mention.

Meeting summaries

- I/O: Philippe: most notable remark is that we have to include RNTuple summary in the LHCC report in a week now.
- TMVA/Roofit: ??
- LIM: Bertrand: there's an issue with ATLAS xAOD. Also mentioned an issue with the JIT & PowerPC (maybe JitLink-related)

Mechanical shifter

- Olivier: ChatGPT helpful but not really confident about just copy-pasting the generated replies.
- Bertrand: tried, not only with ROOT, but also with Geant4. At least for ROOT, it was producing code that is not completely correct (e.g. missing headers).
- Olivier: Yes, code has to be checked.
- Jakob: I don't think it will reflect well on the ROOT team if we just paste ChatGPT answers.
- Enrico: the point is whether we can use it to save shifter's time, but the kind of questions that ChatGPT can reply is not what steals most of the shifter's time.
- Vassil: it can be helpful, providing suggestions combining different knowledge, but if I had to put my name in all of the answers, I would say no.
- Enrico: we might want to keep an eye on how ChatGPT evolves.
- Vassil: Yes, I'm sorry but it can actually write a better paper abstract than I do, so it's still interesting for some purposes.

Verdict: for now the general perception is that we should use it as a toy, but we keep an eye on how the technology evolves.

Round table

[weekly report by each member of the team]

AoB

- Enrico will present his end-of-fellowship report next week in the SFT weekly meeting; however, some of us may not be able to attend due to the EP R&D day.
- Enrico: somebody will have to take over the Docker builds (!)

 

There are minutes attached to this event. Show them.
    • 16:00 16:01
      Find notetaker 1m
    • 16:01 16:05
      News 4m
    • 16:05 16:10
      Shift handover 5m
    • 16:10 16:20
      Meeting Summaries and Plans 10m
      • I/O
      • TMVA
      • RooFit
      • Planning / Godparents /...
      • LIM
    • 16:20 16:40
      Topics 20m
      • Mechanical Shifter vs Forum
    • 16:40 17:00
      GH issues items 20m

      Review of last week's open items

    • 17:00 17:25
      Round Table 25m
    • 17:25 17:30
      A.O.B. 5m