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Work Plan for 2010 - Draft

Support activities

  1. Geant4 Releases and reference tags
    • User support for installation and configuration, including support for the 'configure' script (BM, GC)
    • Release management (GC)
    • release preparation, ie. leak checking, source code checks, etc. (GC, GF)
    • Building of binary releases (GF)
  2. Support of G4 tools, services, and servers
    • improve internal documentation for tools (GF, tech. student)
    • rewrite web interface to bonsai using modern tools (tech. student)

Developments

  1. Improve configuration and installation tools
    • provide a first version of cmake based build system (BM)
      • Review need and use of mandatory environment variables (GC)
      • Review classes compiled without optimization, is this still needed, and why
      • Review platform specific compiler flags - which ones are needed and document why we use them
    • Provide distributions packaged with system tools, starting with rpm distribution (BM, ?)
  2. Transition from cvs to subversion (svn) (GF/ tech. student)
    • evaluate/create mechanism to collect tags in svn in bonsai database
    • evaluate tag mechanism of svn, including directory structure for tags
    • evaluate performance of current svn service
    • prepare plan for migration from cvs to svn
    • provide documentation for collaborators
    • migrate Geant4 cvs repositories to svn, pending decision of collaboration
  3. Code review and optimisation (FNAL)
    • in collaboration with code authors or maintainers


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