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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ROOT Team Meeting 23rd October

1. News
- Turn off the computers because of the power-cut tomorrow Tuesday the 24th Oct

2. Shift handover
Olivier to Marta 
- tests need to be fixed

3. Meetings from last week

* I/O
   - std::bytes 
   - blobs storing challenges 
   - RNTuple format compression - converging
   - Friday - special guest - Maciej Szymanski - Physics metadata storage

* TMVA
* RooFit
   - remaining plans for the release
   - AD crew discussions - support with code generation backend, solving problems/figuring out the priorities in clad 
* PPP
   - Andrii Falko gave an update on Analysis Grand Challenge with v2, 
   - inclusion of the ML pipeline (BDT) in the framework via FastForest C++ library
   - AGC via RDF is alligned with the reference implementation, 7.4M events/sec
   - Better ML support for user discussions (no conclusion reached yet)
   - PPP this week (26th October, LHCb update)

* Planning / Godparents /... 
* LIM
   - bug discovered by CMS - blocking 6.30 and 6.28

   - Triton package - high performance RPC package used by ATLAS - in case anyone wants to start using it
   - ROOT support for dcache request (to be seen)

   - 6.30 release - debugging Python 3.12 crash at import ROOT, not working  Python 3.12 support for ROOT, fedora 39 and ubuntu 23-10 affected, but it shouldn't stop us, Vincenzo will try a few things with cppyy (what is done differently)

4. Special topic 
- draft talk by Vincenzo for the ROOT Developments 2023 at CMS Common Analysis Tools meeting (meeting itself 25th Oct 2023)
   - any comments/slide ideas - please contact Vincenzo on MatterMost directly

- update on the plan of work for next year 
   - on Nov 20 - special ROOT Team Meeting (~3h long) with a detailed discussion on the Plan of Work 
   - somebody non-responsible for the project will present plan of work for the next year - most important points to be carried - discuss with the usual responsibles 
   - email will be sent around

5. Roundtable - Wednesday morning 9am at the usual zoom room

 

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
      • PPP
      • Planning / Godparents /...
      • LIM
    • 16:20 16:40
      Issues 20m

      Review of last week's open items

    • 16:40 17:00
      Topics 20m
      • CMS CAT presentation [Vincenzo] draft slides
      • Backward compatibilities for ROOT 7 - how to come up with a plan? [Axel]
    • 17:00 17:25
      Round Table 25m
    • 17:25 17:30
      A.O.B. 5m