PASFRG Minutes   2/18/98

After briefly reviewing the discussions of the last meeting, we continued our
discussion of requirements.  Some additinos to the requirements list were made,
and these can be viewed from the link on the PASFRG home page or directly at:
http://www.fnal.gov/projects/runii/pasfrg/req.txt
We also talked about organizing the requirements into categories; some initial
suggestions are also on the requirements web page.  We recognized that we need
to consider potentially different requirements for on-line, interactive, and
batch.  

We are urgently in need of volunteers to take on one of the categories of
requirements and quantify and expand on the initial rather terse statements.

We also discussed how we would educate ourselves about existing products (purely
in order to decide on what requirements we will specify, of course, and not to
choose a product).  We agreed to appoint "conveners" for the various products or
strategies.  The conveners would make an initial presentation giving an overview
of the functionality and limitations of the different products.  Members of the
group who have particular questions or concerns about particular products should
direct those queries to the conveners who will attempt to address them in their
initial presentations.  If necessary or desirable, we may scheulde later
sessions about the more interesting products in a point/counter-point format. 
Conveners should also try to address issues of usage of standards, modularity,
flexibility, portability, etc in their initial presentations.

Current assignment of conveners is:
PAW limitations: John Marraffino
ROOT: Pasha Murat
LHC++: John Marraffino and Irwin Gaines
Nirvana: Paul Lebrun
PC tools: Pushpa Bhat
Commercial tools: need a volunteer
Shareware Tools: Eileen Berman

Watch the agendas on the web page for which products will be discussed when.

Future Meetings (all in FCC2A):
Fri Feb 27, 8:30AM
Weds Mar 4, 9AM
Fri Mar 13, 8:30AM