ROOT Project Meeting

Europe/Zurich
32/1-A24 (CERN)

32/1-A24

CERN

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Danilo Piparo (CERN), Jakob Blomer (CERN)
Zoom Meeting ID
63815034196
Host
Danilo Piparo
Alternative host
Philippe Canal
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Notes in addition to the information in the attached documents

Input required for EP R&D Projects
Discussions held 9th - 16th September (to be confirmed)
Current:
- Interoperability
- Acceleration
- Analysis facilities

Probably 3 years duration

Jakob: timelines compared to hardware R&D is different that is something that we will need to explain.
JonasH: too early to talk about ROOT 8
Danilo: just a placeholder to introduce new features
Lukas: Perhaps call it ROOT R&D to combine projects that are more forward looking and were we don't know yet if they will lead to a feature

Regarding the decline in user posts
Jakob: We are loosing the ability to learn about the issues of our users. We may need other ways of getting this information.
JonasH: When do we need to get worried that we loose our 2nd place in terms of forum popularity at CERN (behind the CERN Marketplace)? Let's compare with Geant forum, if they see the same trend.

@ releas:
Nobody objected to locking the 6.40 branch

Meeting Summaries

IO: round table
Statistical analysis: not yet resumed
PPP: no meeting
Python-Cpp: dropping llvm as dependency -> self-contained wheel
Planning/Stakeholders: no meeting
LIM: one of the stacks build failed. symlink related - should be fixed already

Sergey will visit 14th of September for one week

Philippe discussion on the default for builtin / dependence when you call cmake
cmake should not edit the CMakeCache. For the builtin that can be provided, but are not found on the system, we don't turn them on. -> They need to explicitly ask for it? 6.42

regarding win32gdk
Bertrand: win32gdk has been heavily modified. taking it from somewhere else will not work. More than 20 years old. Will take a look.
Jakob: How does this relate to Serguey's work.
Answer: Sergey is working on graphics, Bertrand on GUI

regarding hosting builtins
Sergey: better to rely on infrastructure that we can rely on and that also works in 10y.

Aaron reports no blockers
Bertrand: did you fix the windows issue?
Aaron: API need to be reworked for it? Do not annotate the class. Only annotate the members.

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

      Olivier --> Danilo

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

      ROOT Meetings:
      - I/O
      - Statistical Analysis Software
      - PPP
      - Python-C++ Bindings Meeting
      - Planning / Stakeholders

      Related meetings:
      - LIM

    • 16:15 16:45
      Topics 30m
      • Liaisons' Reports
    • 16:45 17:00
      Round table 15m