[Rivet] Ready for Rivet 1.8.0?

[Andy Buckley]

On 27/02/12 14:38, Holger Schulz wrote:
> On 27/02/12 15:04, Andy Buckley wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Yesterday I added Alex Grecu's LHCb analysis and 4 CMS analyses (a few
>> checks needed -- I will mail about them) to Rivet, and Holger has
>> added the long-awaited ATLAS Ks/Lambda analysis.
>>
>> Along with other fixes in recent weeks, this ticks off pretty much
>> everything on my release 1.8.0 wishlist... except maybe getting in the
>> ATLAS Z+jets and inclusive/exclusive dijet analysis: Holger, those
>> aren't really ready to go into a Rivet release, are they? They can go
>> into a 1.8.1 quite soon.
> They are not yet finished I'm afraid and I would not expect them to be so
> in less than two weeks.
>
>>
>> So, any reason not to start validating for release now?
> Can we have the aidamerge script and the other one which is used
> for actually adding histograms (which is it by the way?) moved to
> the bin folder or similar such that it is available on afs?

No! As mentioned many times, these scripts are in "contrib" for a 
reason: they don't always work and the interface is not polished. It's 
intended as a template to be modified for particular tasks.

I know this isn't a good situation. We'd like to have run merging built 
in: if this affects you (which is pretty much the case for everyone), 
please help with getting the YODA branch into a state where we can move 
it into the Rivet trunk. The amount of manpower we've had for doing work 
on that branch has been something like 0.05 FTE, so it's hardly 
surprising that it's been slow...

Andy

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