Code Management
CVS based STAR library in AFS
No responsible person, and hasn’t been one for a long time
Release coordinator is pending hire at BNL
Once on board (11-12/97?)
- house cleaning of starlib under direction of experts
- take responsibility for and overhaul web as documentation and communication tool
- review adequacy of current scheme as development pace accelerates
- involve production, simu, reco, infrastructure in review
- scheme must provide unambiguous, reproducible definition of a software configuration (versions of all constituent software components) to precisely identify production configurations
- benefits and costs of adopting externally developed tool, in particular SRT (Software Release Toolkit) developed by Bob Jacobsen/BaBar
- already a ‘public’ product in use by 5 (?) other collaborations
- ‘short term turmoil’ vs. long term benefit