[Rivet] Work for Rivet 2.4.0 release: call for contributions!

[Andy Buckley]

Hey everyone,

A reminder that we agreed to increase the Rivet release frequency, and 
that the next analysis update release should happen before the end of 
this month.

If we hadn't done any other development in the last couple of months, 
that release would be 2.3.1, but we have actually changed enough (in a 
stable and complete way) to justify version 2.4.0.

Unless there are pressing bugfixes or developments that I'm not aware 
of, all that remains to be done before validation is to hook up the 8 
new analysis codes in the contrib directory:

ATLAS_2014_I1326641.tar.gz
ATLAS_2014_I1327229.tar.gz
ATLAS_2015_I1387176.tar.gz
CMS_2014_I1305624.tgz
CMS_2015_I1310737.new.tgz
CMS_2015_I1310737.orig.tgz
CMS_2015_I1327224.tgz
CMS_2015_I1346843.tgz
D0_2000_I503361.tar.gz
(note that two of these are "new" and "orig" versions of the same analysis)

We also said that we would distribute the work, to make new analysis 
releases unintimidating for developers... so, who wants to integrate 
which analysis codes? ;-) Add the new analyses on the release-2-3-x 
branch, and I will sync them into default before we make the release 
(cf. earlier discussions about what sorts of changes go on which branches.)

Volunteers please... thanks in advance.

Andy

PS. Holger/David, the contrib dir needs some umask or similar 
permissions set so that the tarballs are group-writeable. Several of 
these new ones aren't, so intervention from root will needed to move 
them to the pre2.4.0 dir when we make it. Also, the email notifications 
about new tarballs seem to be broken (right?)

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow