Stakeholder meeting notes – 2016/10/13

by Paul Russo

Attendees: Lynn Garren, Chris Green, Kyle Knoepfel, Evan Niner, Marc Paterno, Gianluca Petrillo, Brian Rebel, Paul Russo

art news

The upcoming releases were discussed.

2.04.01 released

See: https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/art/wiki/Release_Notes_20401

2.05.00 next week

  • EventAuxiliary access for event mixing
  • art/Ntuple moved to cetlib (and messagefacility)
  • deprecations will be removed

2.06.00 feature release

  • root 6.08
  • new compiler gcc 6.2
  • Source template unintended source filename sorting will be removed

The schedule for moving to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS was reviewed once again (same slides).

  • uses new gcc abi
  • needs root 6.08
  • scheduled to be available with art 2.06.00

There was a brief review of the status of creating docker images for software stack releases.

It was announced that work on multi-threaded art has begun.