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Software Management

Work Plan for 2009

Support activities

  1. Geant4 Releases and reference tags
    • User support for installation and configuration, including support for the 'configure' script
    • Release management
    • Building of binary releases
  2. Support of G4 tools, services, and servers
    • Move MySQL DB hosting the bonsai and URD databases to server managed by IT
    • improve internal documentation for tools
    • review and improve security of tools in use

Developments

  1. Improve configuration and installation tools
    • Review need and use of mandatory environment variables
    • Investigate a replacement for no longer supported metaconfig used for Configure script
    • Provide distributions packaged with system tools, starting with rpm distribution
  2. Transition from cvs to subversion (svn)
    • evaluate svn and prepare plan for migration from cvs to svn
    • adapt mechanism to collect tags in bonsai database
    • provide documentation for collaborators
    • migrate Geant4 cvs repositories to svn
  3. Code review and optimisation
    • in collaboration with code authors or maintainers

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