Hall-D Software Meeting  Nov. 2, 2004

Attendees: Paul E., Richard J., Ed B., David L., Zisis P.
  ,Elliott W., Alexander S., Grep R., Simon T., Ryan M., Elliott W.
  ,Mark I., Elton S.

Agenda:
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1. hitClusterView in HDDM   David L.
2. BitKeeper
3. New meeting time
4. Cherenkov Thickness


1. Dave discussed a proposal to add a clusterView to HDDM. This arose
from a meeting between Elton, Ed, Elliott, Simon, and Dave last
week.

The discussion focused on how packages should access data. There was
a consensus that the software should be designed "top-down" so that
all information used by a particular object is obtained from methods.

There was a concern that the FSU group working on tracking would need
something close to the final access mechanism. Otherwise, modifications
would be significant later on. The FSU group pointed out that they
are exploring alogorithms for now and fully expect major revisions
anyway. Hence, the interface can be designed more or less independantly
for now.

2. We discussed moving hddm to BitKeeper control. First, an access
mechanism for outside institutions needs to be established. Dave
believes this is simple and will take care of it. Once that is done,
then a date can be set for the official change.

3. With daylight savings time, the pressure of class schedules has
been eased and we can return to our 13:00 EST meeting time.

4. Elton reported that Ravi discovered a descrepancy in the Cherenkov
detector depth. This has been reported/discussed in a few e-mails.
Elton was going to coordinate with Ravi and Richard so that Richard
can sure that the most current numbers are in hdds.