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["Van Buren, Gene" <gene AT bnl.gov>]

Clarifying a few (hopefully uncontentious) points...

> On Sep 12, 2024, at 1:00 PM, Richard Witt <Star-tpc-l AT lists.bnl.gov> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
>   In response to a request from Frank at today’s TPC meeting, here is a 
> short summary of the status of the ongoing work to incorporate the new TPC 
> alignment for the FXT production.
> 
> == The next step toward production for the FXT is the processing of a 
> sample for dE/dx calibration.

That's the next step _after_ an official library is built, a calibration 
production of the high priority datasets (3 or 4 FXT energies) for TPC dE/dx 
+ BTOF + ETOF.

> 
> == A new library, incorporating the new alignment has been produced.
> 
> == The S&C group must approve that library before production of the 
> calibration sample can proceed.

I built a test library for the purpose of running the nightly test suite, not 
an official library.

> 
> == The S&C group needs approval of the changes made in response to the 
> current pull request associated with the new alignment code before they can 
> approve the the library for use in the calibration production.
> 
> ==  Due to the number of comments submitted on the PR, it is unclear to the 
> TPC group what further work is needed to receive such approval or even what 
> form that approval takes since the code will not be merged when the PR is 
> resolved (to avoid undesired effects in producing older data sets).

The concern with merging into DEV currently is to avoid any impact on 
FastOffline for the next ~5.5 weeks.

Thanks,
-Gene

> 
> ==  The TPC group, therefore, requests a path to approval of the changes 
> made for the PR be defined so we can proceed with requesting S&C approval 
> and subsequently produce a dE/dx calibration sample using the new library.
> 
> Best Regards,
>   Richard 
> 
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> 
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