ROOT Team Meeting

Europe/Zurich
Danilo Piparo (CERN), Jakob Blomer (CERN)
Zoom Meeting ID
97374667082
Host
Axel Naumann
Alternative hosts
Bertrand Bellenot, Lorenzo Moneta, Enrico Guiraud, Jakob Blomer, Danilo Piparo, Vincenzo Eduardo Padulano
Useful links
Join via phone
Zoom URL

Online Meeting on Zoom

News

as reported in the status document
- New member Vipul Cariappa working on InterOp

Important Dates

as reported in the status document

Shift handover

see summary from Stephan in the status document
- Bertrand comments that we do not have influence on Windows update done by IT

Meeting Summaries

IO
Round table with Giacomo, Jonas, and Philippe, nothing outstanding to report; question received from Marcin asking about an interface behavior, which requires further thought.

Follow up discussion:
- Move out of RNTuple out of experimental is finished.
- CMSSW issue was reported

no Statistical Analysis Software meeting last week

no PPP last week, but one scheduled for this week

virtual LIM, but nothing special to report
Follow up discussion
Was it discussed with Andre about a slot the 6.36 release? Andre asked about moving dev4 to 6.36? Danilo will disuss with Andre

Topics

Discussion required about Interpreter about std::chrono, and Xcode 16.3, naming PR.
Backports:
- maybe saving space for histograms - needs further disucssion
- CMake4 - 2 mac minis are already running cmake 4.
see Olivier's status update
- Integer support for cppyy #18492

Philippe mentions the following items:
- Atlas issue related to LoadClassInfo
- #18464, which needs to be reviewed
- CMS blockers with RNTuple
- Improve CI performance #18572

If there are any other release-related topics, contact Danilo.

Round-Table

This notes only contain content that is not part of the status report document

IO
Martin:
ATLAS Pub Note is public. Should be added to the list of publications

RooFit
Stephan
Underlines the importance of being available to users. The massive speedup of improving ListOfCleanups was achieved, because the issue was identified in a PPP.

Graphics and Visualiation
Serguey:
Stephan mentions that instead of an explicit list of libraries it would be better to use the most derived cmake target.

Documentation and Traning
Stephan
Doxygen creates a large amount of files that caused reaching the inode quota. Proposed solutionh: host only new versions and let users download archive for old ROOT versions.

Other

Bertrand
No more 16 core VMs - only 8 core
Bertrand will provide some timing to IT about the slow down.

Olivier:
Olivier will provide more details on the test failures.

AOB

none

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

      Strephan --> Monica

    • 16:10 16:15
      Meeting Summaries and Plans 5m

      ROOT Meetings:
      - I/O
      - Statistical Analysis Software
      - PPP
      - Planning / Stakeholders

      Related meetings:
      - ML4EP
      - LIM

    • 16:15 16:45
      Topics 30m
      • Status of the code for the 6.36 release
    • 16:45 17:00
      Round table 15m
    • 17:00 17:05
      A.O.B. 5m