Software Tools Minutes
20 July 1995
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Present:    Drew Baden, Krzystof Genser, Bruce Gibbard, John Hobbs, Al
            Jonchkeere, Stan Krzywdzinski, Qizhong Li-Demarteau, Laura
            Paterno,
            Serban Protopopescu, Harrison Prosper, Suemee Shin, Ransom
            Stephens

Scribe:     Suemee Shin

    Harrison called our second meeting to order with a mention of the agenda
and
the timescale(Oct. 1. 1995) in which the following had to be done.


(A) Assigning jobs to names:

    The co-chair was chosen to be Qizhong Li-Demarteau.  Al Jonchkeere took
charge of Document/News management and John Hobbs took charge of text editing.
A brief discussion of the responsiblities of each charge was held and decided.
The co-chair will organize the meetings in the absence of Harrison. The
Document/News manager will make available/collate the info created/edited by
the
text editing manager.

    A discussion of the software tools needed in managing the news/documents
within D0 and also the accessability of such information through the UNIX WEB
was held where the following was mentioned:
    - Latex 2 HTML  (bugsy)
    - PS            (Ghostview)
    - Text 2 HTML
    - Framemaker    (output/converts to HTML)
    - Word          (Word 2 HTML exist)
    - Word Perfect  (Word Perfect 2 HTML)
    - Word Scientific
Al mentioned the need for moderation needed in such postings and the following
idea was spawn:

    SCRIPT(Latex...etc) <-> CAPTURED ACCOUNT(Manager) -> D0NOTES...etc


(B) Discussion of Adam Para's comments:

    The following changes in low/high level software/tools to a UNIX system
were discussed with Adam Para's comment in mind:
    - X-windows' IMAKE     (builds applications, ports to 15 different
                            platforms)
    - Careful purchasing of software    (buy/steal/burrow, central/license,
                                         workable or not)
    - A fresh start in releasing software from the CMS library would be more
      efficient than rewriting the software    (Alan)
    - Initially, use CMS for ease    (John)
    - CVS    (similar to CMS but with lower functionality, muti platforms)
    - RCVS    (more features but not as flexible as CMS)
    - CMS to CVS, by other experiments
    - RHIC uses CVS     (doesn't do distributions)
    - Zebra...
    - AFS    (Local caching, some network problems, multi unix platforms,
              worldwide flag system, commercial product-licensing issue)
    - no CMZ
    - We can do releases to UNIX now
    - support/cooperation with FUE      (Alan is the D0 representative)
    - Translation  of porting

(C) Discussion of Bruce Gibbard's notes:

    The discussion was cut short due to lack of time.



                                   Suemee