Athena POOL integration milestones

D. Adams
February 12, 2003 14:00 EST
Updated: April 10, 2003 9:05 EDT


Integration milestones

Dates to be tied to ATLAS releases as they are scheduled.

FEB 18

I/O of events containing a single instance of a simple object.
    2/27/03
    This was not met. A series of test programs leading up to
    this goal were identified on 2/26/03. See the task list.

MAR 31

Support for classes with arrays and vectors.
   4/10/03
   This was not met. We will go directly to the full dictionary and
   skip this intermediate step.

Automatic dictionary generation. [Orsay]

   4/10/03
   This is now available and is tried out in the context of POOL
   integration.

POOL interface for Magda.

   4/10/03
   Deferred until a clear use case is defined.

15 MAY

Settle on ROOT file format.

Design and implementation of ATLAS references.

Design and implementation for limited schema evolution.

1 JUL

ATLAS 7.0 suitable for long term data storage.

NOV 30

ATLAS 8.0 suitable for DC2.


Associated POOL milestones

DEC 15

POOL 0.3 supporting simple object IO and collections - DONE

FEB 28

POOL 0.4

APR 30

POOL 0.5

JUL 1

POOL 1.0 suitable for long term data storage.

NOV 30

POOL 1.X meeting ATLAS requirements for DC2.


Associated Athena/ROOT milestones

FEB 28

Functional under gcc 3.2.

Support for iterating over contents of StoreGate.

MAY 15

Support for POOL references if required.


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