This is just a quick idea to drop here for discussion:
I believe the main focus of the starterkits should be to get people to work productively with the existing software.
However, there are things that the community here would like to teach, which are not yet fully supported by the framework. A typical example that caught a few people is that ganga does not yet work with lbrun. Anotherone is the use of cmake, which at least to my mind is still very unstable.
So ... I'd like to suggest that the main lessons aim at presenting a solution that is working in analysis-daily-life now (even if we know/hope that it will be outdated in half a year). In addition there could be a section like The Hackers Guide to LHCb, where BETA features are presented, showing not only where the train is heading in the future, but also where interested people could make a valuable contribution.
This is just a quick idea to drop here for discussion:
I believe the main focus of the starterkits should be to get people to work productively with the existing software.
However, there are things that the community here would like to teach, which are not yet fully supported by the framework. A typical example that caught a few people is that ganga does not yet work with
lbrun. Anotherone is the use of cmake, which at least to my mind is still very unstable.So ... I'd like to suggest that the main lessons aim at presenting a solution that is working in analysis-daily-life now (even if we know/hope that it will be outdated in half a year). In addition there could be a section like
The Hackers Guide to LHCb, where BETA features are presented, showing not only where the train is heading in the future, but also where interested people could make a valuable contribution.Let me know what you think!