[Rivet] Plans for Rivet 1.8.0 release

[Andy Buckley]

On 17/01/12 11:15, Andy Buckley wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It's about time for another Rivet release. Since 1.7.0 we've had a major
> change (improvement!) to the Jet interfaces, and Frank S wanted to
> improve the W/ZFinder interfaces a bit more (what's the status of that,
> Frank?), so the next release will have to be 1.8.0.
>
> After this I think we have to aim to not change the API in the 1.x
> series, and to get the YODA branch into the trunk asap.
>
> So, what's left to do for 1.8.0:
>
> * I would like to split the MC_GENERIC analysis into several distinct
> analyses, since the current collection is rather a mish-mash, grown
> according to validation/sanity checking needs. In particular I'd like to
> separate the identified hadron rates into a separate MC_HADRONS, since
> it takes make-plots a *very* long time to plot the ~3000 bins of the PID
> histograms (it's not clever enough to merge all the consecutive empty
> bins into a single Postscript line). I might also add a specific
> charged+neutral min bias MC analysis that I wrote for ATLAS pile-up
> studies.
>
> * W/ZFinder changes?
>
> * New analyses near completion: ATLAS W+jets (done by Frank S),
> inclusive leptons (done by Holger), diffractive gaps (by Tim Martin,
> being checked by Holger and co.) Any non-ATLAS new analyses almost ready
> to go in? I think there may be an LHCb one from Alex Grecu still to be
> integrated.
>
> * Other changes?

Ah, I do have one more item for the 1.8.0 TODO list: Hendrik recently 
reported a compare-histos bug which means that file ordering can result 
in plots not being shown, etc. Yuck, we should definitely get that fixed 
for the next release.

AB


> After this release, we really do need to merge the YODA branch into the
> trunk, and make new 1.8.x releases (and 1.9.x if _forced_) from a
> maintenance branch. The YODA merge will break things, but I think we're
> nearly at the point where that will be tolerable, and will certainly be
> fixed much faster by having several people working on it than just
> Hendrik, David, and myself once every other month! Histogram
> inflexibility has got to be the #1 Rivet FAQ at the moment, so making
> this upgrade is long overdue.
>
> Any comments, objections, etc.?
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>


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