DD4hep Developers Meeting
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DD4hep Meeting August 29th, 2024
Present: M.Frank, T.Madlehner
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Pending Problems
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.
NEW:
5) ISSUE1319: Problem with regexSensitiveDetector and volume IDs
===> regexSensitiveDetector incompatible with volume manager....
6) ISSUE1320: Replacing a Handle<Segmentation> which contains a MultiSegmentation with the underlying Segmentation
===> Unclear what he really means
Pending:
7) PR1304: SurfaceManager: lazily construct surface maps on demand (Leonhard Reichenbach)
8) PR1314: Cylinder segment surface (Armin Ilg)
Closed issues and fixed problems
1) ISSUE1306: ROOT Master GetGeomPainter breaking tests
2) ISSUE1311: Test t_AlignDet_AlephTPC_load failing in dev4
3) ISSUE1313: Error in <Compile>: compilation of TPRegexp
===> Was a ROOT issue
4) ISSUE1318: Getting DD4hep doesn't work in spack
===> No action. Problem with underlying ROOT build.
5) ISSUE1316: ROOT Master GetGeomPainter breaking tests (Andre)
6) PR1316: Do not install plugins in CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR. Declined by Andre.
7) PR1317: RegexSD: change ddsim interface to use a dictionary instead of a list, fix infinite loop (Andre)
Round table
Thomas: Still need to think about proagating fast-sim handling as a flag in MC particles.
Markus: NTR
AOB
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Next meeting: September 12th, 2024