ROOT Team Meeting
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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