General Comments =============== -Make sure yo are ready NOW with the release notes (and LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS) -if you had one or more patch in the 5.22 or 5.24 release patches, please make an ffort to improve your QA procedure. See: http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/root-version-v5-22-00-patch-release-notes CINT: Axel =========== -status of editline; still portability problems -what else in CINT? CORE: Fons =========== -makefile/configure status (see also gviz) -test with latest gcc versions? -check make static. check if roota really works I/O & Trees: Philippe, Rene ============================ -still some work to do on the cache (TTree::Process and SetCacheEntryRange) -TFormula/TTreeFormula stability after Philippe's changes -May be! automatic activation of call to TTree::OptimizeBaskets -must understand cpu consomption on client of TWebFile (Fons) MATH: Lorenzo ============= -Any mods expected? -check with roofit/roostats. Lorenzo to check with Wouter asap -FitPanel recorder file - add improvements in building static representation of symmetric matrices - add new sparse bin data structure for fitting which combines the empty bins. Can be used for performing fitting efficiently multi-dimensional histograms or THNSparse. - various improvements in RooStats/RooFit to be ready for a tutorial sessions in mid-October GRAF2D : Olivier ================ -a long list of savannah reports. Which ones will be fixed -status of gviz and installation of graphviz on Linux when linking with libgvc.a must compile with -fPIC -recorder sessions GRAF3D : Matevz =============== -Any mods expected? -recorder session PROOF: Gerri ============= For the release, in addition to a couple of pending bug fixes, there are two developments that I would like to have in: - The extension of the 'multiuser' mode following the model used on the Grid; this feature is requested by Alice and it is almost ready. - The dataset validation in parallel (currently the dataset manager does it serially and several people complained that this may be long). These should be done next week. I may also have a recorder file for a simple PROOF-Lite session.