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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Shift handover: Lukas -> Stephan
- Notable issues of git cloning, we've seen this on macos, then also on alma, the fix would be to have a github token to authenticate all git clone requests
    - Danilo: we currently do up to 4 clones per job, a mitigation could be to reduce the number of clones, maybe to 2
    - Staphan: has a PR to try something in this diretion

News
- We're at -20% in our issues backlog, at the upper limit of what was promised to the LHCC


Meeting summaries
- IO: investigating the CMS RNTuple use-cases that uses a lot of memory, ATLAS came with a similar issue but we identified it wasn't related to the same cause, we also concluded that we needed a backport of performance improvements so we will be carrying a patch to LLVM untill we migrate to LLVM 23
- Python bindings: CppJIT is now released on PyPI, next is to sync the ROOT migration branch on the CppJIT released code, the branch is currently green but has a lot of patches that we are currently trying to reduce


Proposals
- Danilo: Having another development release next november supported until June
    - Stephan: I have a problem with the motivation being "one additional stop for deprecations", if this makes the jump to ROOT7 then I'm against, otherwise I'm for it
    - Danilo: indeed this shouldn't be used as an opportunity to stuff more things
    - many people: maybe it could be named root7 rc1 instead?
    - JR: maybe not because we can't do bug fixes only for 6 months
    - Philippe: we may end up having to do the last 6 release around the same time as 7
    - Danilo: let's wrap up, we don't decide today, we still have some days to consult experiments and make a final decision
    - Philippe: just to reinforce my POV, I don't see why not release 6.46, I think this would break expectations and make the jump to ROOT7 higher for experiments
    - Stephan: but experiments only jump from long term to long term anyway so they won't switch to 6.46 anyway, this would hoever be a good way to keep things flowing

Liaisons
- NTR


Round table
- Serguey: struggling with a functionality i call interactivity in the canvas

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

      Lukas --> Stephan

    • 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