ROOT Project Meeting
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.