DD4hep Developers Meeting

Thursday 17 Sept 2020, 15:30 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

2/1-034 (CERN)

Marko Petric (CERN)

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DD4hep meeting 17/09/2020
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A.Sailer, C.Vuosalo, M.Petric, M.Frank, F.Gaede

1) Open issues:
  -- Help for beginners (Andre/Marko)
     PR   https://github.com/AIDASoft/DD4hep/issues/703
     --> DDsim tweaks

  -- ddsim with hepevt input (Andre)
     Step limiter physics needs to be added to the physics list to take step limits into account.
     PR https://github.com/AIDASoft/DD4hep/issues/706

  -- python bindings not working on macOS with ROOT 6.22 (Marko) 
     See PR https://github.com/AIDASoft/DD4hep/issues/700 

  -- CI updates (Marco)
     See PR https://github.com/AIDASoft/DD4hep/pull/701 

2) Closed issues

  -- Basic geometry accessors for shapes (Markus)
     Additional inclusion of the dd4hep units file causing shadow warnings.
     Resolved. See PR https://github.com/AIDASoft/DD4hep/pull/697

  -- Fix to sphere construction plugin (Markus)
     See PR https://github.com/AIDASoft/DD4hep/pull/702

  -- DDSim tweaks (Andre)
     Understand missing hits in SiD barrel detectors
     Fix physics list and region parameters for SiD in DDDetectors
     See PR https://github.com/AIDASoft/DD4hep/pull/705
  

3) Round table
Markus:   See above.
Andre:    See above
Carl:     --
Frank:    --
Marko:   -Fixing header guards to have the same convention everywhere.
          https://github.com/AIDASoft/DD4hep/pull/704
          Status accepted by all
         -Need compile dependent information to print proper conditions name. 

4) AOB

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