DD4hep Developers Meeting

Thursday 15 Aug 2024, 15:30 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

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Andre Sailer (CERN), Markus Frank (CERN)

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DD4hep Meeting August 15th, 2024

Present:  A.Sailer, M.Frank

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Link to minutes of previous meeting

Pending Problems

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1)  ISSUE1199: Persist hepmc vertex status code into output
                      ==> Should we eliminate Geant4EventReaderHepMC
                      ==> Decision: Geant4EventReaderHepMC will be removed
2) ISSUE1285:  Memory Consumption of Sensitive Detectors
                      ==> Should be handled as illustrated in PR1288. Intrinsic problem of the Geant4VolumeManager;
3) ISSUE1296:  DetectorImp::endDocument() called twice for some geometries?
                      ==> Unsure if it is a problem wrongly configuring multiple xml inputs.
4) ISSUE1297:  Possible to dump all available readout elements?
                     ==> Possibly a copy of unsolved ISSUE580 from Valentin about enumerating all sensitive cells.
5) ISSUE1306:  ROOT Master GetGeomPainter breaking tests
6) ISSUE1311:  Test t_AlignDet_AlephTPC_load failing in dev4

Pending:
7) PR1304:     SurfaceManager: lazily construct surface maps on demand (Leonhard Reichenbach)
8) PR1314:     Cylinder segment surface (Armin Ilg)

Closed issues and fixed problems

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1) ISSUE1313:  Error in <Compile>: compilation of TPRegexp
                           ===> Related to ROOT issue https://github.com/root-project/root/issues/15986
2) ISSUE1305:  Get proper hit/MCParticle relations from Geant4Output2EDM4hep
3) PR1308:     Allow speeding up RegexSD, add ddsim interface for it (Andre)
4) PR1309:     SiDTests: ensure aclick tests are not run in parallel (Andre)
                          ===>  Finally the reason why they tend to fail.
5) PR1310:     Building Documentation with el9 container (Andre)
6) PR1312:     GitlabCI: drop Flake check, since we have that on github as well (Andre)
7) PR1315:     Fix constant exception from Geometry.regexSensitiveDetector (Sang Hyon Ko)

Round table

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Andre:      New tag coming up.
Markus:   NTR

AOB

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Next meeting:   August 29th, 2024

15:30 → 15:50 Around the table