[Rivet] Rivet dev sprint session

[Frank Siegert]

Hi Andy, all,

CERN would be cheaper for me, but since you've got the IPPP grant
that'll probably be more feasible overall ;-)
(my locals probably wouldn't pay towards travel to a Rivet meeting)

I would like to join, but I can't travel for a whole week during term
(starts Oct 22), so I could only be there for 2-3 days. Or I'll join
remotely for any discussion sessions if possible.

If we're getting together like this, I'd like to revive the effort of
getting our manual into shape for journal (CPC) submission. Maybe I'll
create a first draft in the next weeks and circulate for comments. In
my opinion this is not dependent on having YODA implemented and
released and documented, since we update our manual on the arXiv
regularly anyway. This would just be a snapshot polished to be good
enough for journal submission, but not the last update of the manual
for all times. Objections?

Cheers,
Frank

On 28 September 2012 14:33, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sure many of you have noticed that we only make substantial progress
> on Rivet when we all manage to get together in one place for a few days
> and do our best to shut out the rest of the world. Well, if we are to
> *finally* release Rivet 2.0 before the end of the year, we should have
> at least one such sprint session this autumn, and perhaps more than one.
>
> I have an IPPP grant which can be used toward supporting exactly this
> sort of effort, so suggest that we find a good time for several core
> developers to descend on Durham in late Oct/early Nov and spend a few
> days (+ a few ramp-up/down days before and after) concentrating on
> pushing Rivet+YODA towards a releasable state. I can pay at least toward
> flight and subsistence costs if your local groups won't pay, or will
> only partially pay. I hope IPPP will supply accommodation in the
> colleges -- this has happened before, and certainly helps to not blow
> the budget all at once!
>
> Who's interested, and is that time period reasonable? CERN would be
> another option, but I think would involve a lot more travel and far more
> food and accomm expenses: I'm not sure Jo would be happy with all of you
> camping in our house for a week ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Andy