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Dave Davis and Eric Winter provided recap of the feedback to the GSSC from the GLAST Users Group from their 'beta test' of the Science Tools. The Beta Test was not limited to the GLAST Users Group members, in that the GSSDC GSSC also recruited some other likely users.
The GSSC has been able to verify installations working at about 10 institutions representing 17 Beta Test participants, on a remarkable variety of Linux versions, thanks to a lot of work. In making distributions in the HEASARC hmake system, Eric found that he had to make some small changes in some packages to get the 64-bit builds to work. He is planning to enter these changes as JIRA issues for the package owners in our repository. Eric reports that the tools cannot be ported to Mac OSX 10.5 before a ROOT build for that version is made. [Update from Eric W.: "we have a 10.4 binary running on 10.5 now"]
Dave Davis said that only 5 feedback reports had been about the tools themselves, rather than installation issues. Apparently none of the comments were about bugs; some were comments on the documentation. So right now it looks like no major issues will arise from the Beta Test. This is ok.
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Discussion on this issue led to a discussion on delivery of the Science Tools to the GSSC, and what constitutes a part of the distribution intended for release by the GSSC to the public. Eric and Jim have converged on a current list of tools; this will get posted in...Confluence. More importantly, Jim has defined a checkout package, ST_dist, for the tools for the GSSC. Eric also has a proposed procedure for joint agreement on additions/deletions from the set of distributed tools. I think that it will fly; details later.
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