Offline software releases
Release status
- Status - schedule and deadlines, status of accomplished releases, links to detailed reports
- Problems - Known problems and solutions (per release)
- Nightly builds - daily builds of projects using latest tags
- Nightly run time tests
- ATLAS Full Chain Test - results page for the automated ATLAS Full Chain Test.
- Directory with releases - all available releases, see below for afs location
- Directory with releases before and including 11.2.0 - see below for afs location
- Installation Kits - top directory, use for pacman commands, e.g. kitsDirectory/projects/cache
- Installation Kits - *.pacman files
- Tag Collector - coordination of tag information per release
- Browse the Doxygen documentation - access various releases (after 11.2.0)
- Latest Summary Doxygen documentation (development)
Note: Releases later than release 11.2.0 are built grouping the packages into projects.
Global release coordination (GRC)
Coordination of releases for offline s/w, HLT software and databases, and installation at Point-1.
Release strategy
- Strategy and policies - Defines production, developer and bug-fix releases; explains conventions for the version tags; explains the role of the Nightly builds by the NICOS system.
- AthenaReleases -- short form of the above note
AFS location of released builds
| File system | AFS location |
|---|---|
| Releases | /afs/cern.ch/atlas/software/releases |
| Releases before 11.2.0 | /afs/cern.ch/atlas/software/dist/ |
See also the summary of soft links to the release area.
Contacts
Mailing lists
See also
- Code distribution - Using the Kits and Pacman
- External Libraries - tbd - Atlas specific and LCG libraries
- ATLAS offline release process, presentation to Applications Area meeting, 2006-01-11 (David Quarrie)