答复: Process for working on the CEPC

Hi Nigel,

 

Thanks for raising all these good questions! 

I believe clear answers to them are quite important to our work on the CEPC.


Please find below my attempt efforts to answer. And corrects and comments
are welcome from the community. 

 

Hi all,

 

Do we have any process set out for how we work together on the CEPC? 

 

The approach up until now hasn’t matched anything I’ve used before and I
find it somewhat unsettling and hard to follow, which in turn makes me
nervous that we are not doing the best work that we can, together.
Specifically:

* Pull requests are opened to make changes that do not seem to have
been discussed and do not have related issues

** Could you please list the pull requests that you think should have been
discussed but not? Maybe we could review them on the group phone call. 

* Discussions on the pull requests are wide ranging in scope and hard
to keep track of, very likely because they do not relate to discussed issues
* Pull requests are merged while there are still ongoing
conversations, and I’m not sure when we have reached consensus or what the
accepted review period is

** seems similar to issue 1 above. Let’s put the Pull request discussion
into our July phone call agenda. 

* I haven’t managed to work out what the publication plan is and if
there are any particular timescales we’re aiming to meet, target versions
etc

** I remember the plan is to release the formal version of CEPC before TPAC.
To achieve that, we should probably make a more detailed time management
plan, e.g. end of July, group consensus about the draft; Aug AB review; late
Aug or early Sep, official release. (might be a bit optimistic, but worth
trying to) 

* I’m unclear which issues are considered the highest priority
amongst the task force membership

**Anther agenda item for this month phone call. Need the input from the
group on the priorities. 

*  Some issues in the repository are labelled CEPC but others probably do
relate to the CEPC and are not labelled

I may be on my own here, in which case fine, carry on, but in case I’m not,
does anyone else here have similar problems following the group’s work? If
so, can we fix them, maybe by introducing a general process that the group
uses in the absence of some exceptional circumstance, and writing some
guidance? Maybe there is an existing description of the group’s working
approach – please point me to it if there is!

 

I was distracted from the PWE group work for a couple of months due to
frequent travels, and found myself lost track of the discussion. Tzviya’s
1:1 phone calls helped me a lot to catch up, but this might not apply to the
whole group. Introducing a general process and decision policy would be a
good idea. 

 

Last but not least, if we want the community to have a new CEPC by hand on
TPAC2019, there are some work to do for this summer :D

 

Angel