[Rivet] Rivet 2 numerical validation survey complete... next steps to release

[David Grellscheid]

Hi Andy,

I'll get the comparisons running. It'll be the current trunks as of the
moment when I use them. :-)

  David





On 24/07/13 21:58, Andy Buckley wrote:
> Hi all, particularly Hendrik and David,
> 
> I've just blasted through the remaining items flagged up as numerical
> mismatch issues between Rivet2 with YODA and Rivet1 with AIDA... noting
> that it's not only the histogramming that's changed.
> 
> In several cases the problem really looks to be on the AIDA side, e.g.
> bins in output histos that don't exist in the AIDA reference. In quite a
> few cases there were Rivet2/YODA issues to fix (which I've hopefully
> done), mostly to do with our change to the bookScatter2D behaviour (it
> doesn't create a set of zeroed points with x values+errs based on the
> ref data anymore, after much discussion.) And there are a bunch where I
> really don't know where the errors can have come from: typically cases
> where there are *zero* bins in the output, and the code *really* looks
> like there have to be some.
> 
> So we'll need to do another run of the Rivet2+YODA validation jobs based
> on the current trunks of both Rivet and YODA: David, can you set those
> running? And please have a look in the rivet/private/yodadiff hg repo to
> see my comments on the datasets I checked.
> 
> It'd be *really* nice to get our new releases of Rivet and YODA out in
> the next couple of weeks. Always very hard to keep things moving when
> we're not in the same place and able to work *together*, but a bit of a
> push now to *finally* get this release out will be a big relief (for me
> at least) and free us up to work on more creative / enhancement
> developments :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
>