Re: Problem with FDC hits in new savehits.F

[David Lawrence <davidl@jlab.org>]

Hi Mark,

    I guess that depends on what you mean by "official release". If the 
criteria is "software where everything more or less works" then it will 
be a few years before the first "official release".

    Here, I use "release" to mean a snapshot of the code that at least 
compiles and runs on the primary supported platforms (F8 RHEL5, Mac OSX) 
that can be used as a common basis for comparison. The procedure used 
for making a release is as described here: 
http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/software/wiki/index.php/HOWTO_Create_a_Hall-D_Software_Release

    It would be nice to vet these kind of issues with a standard set of 
tests before tagging a release so bugs like the one described (which may 
turn out not to be one after all, but that's beside the point) would be  
identified  and fixed prior to the tag. However, devising said tests and 
a system for applying them efficiently is going to take some work which 
is why this has been an orphan project on our software task lists page 
for years now.

I think Alex is starting to think about this some in the context of 
geometry checking and will present some ideas and lead a discussion on 
this at next week's Software meeting.

In the meantime, I think we are stuck with making periodic tags and 
using the "it compiles" criteria since *a* tag is better than *no* tag 
as evidenced by how easy it was for me to point Richard to the exact 
version of the code with which I was seeing a problem.

Regards,
-David

Mark M. Ito wrote:
> Dave,
>
> David Lawrence wrote:
>>
>> ... ran into a problem with the hits from the FDC. It short, it looks 
>> like there are very few...
> Whoops, I guess it's not official yet.
>
>  -- Mark
>

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