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General Information

• Conditions Database Project Leader: Andrea Valassi
• COOL Savannah Portal
• COOL CVS repository
• COOL dOxygen documentation

Mailing Lists

• Conditions Database general mailing list: project-lcg-peb-conditionsdb@cern.ch (Web archive)
• Conditions Database developers mailing list: project-lcg-peb-conditionsdb-developers@cern.ch (Web archive)
• Conditions Database CVS log mailing list: project-lcg-peb-conditionsdb-cvslog@cern.ch (only for automatic messages from CVS: Web archive)
• Simba2 (browse/edit lists)

People

• COOL core development and testing team:
• Andrea Valassi (IT/PSS-CERN) - core development, SCRAM configuration, release management
• Sven A. Schmidt (Atlas-Mainz) - core development, PyCool
• Marco Clemencic (LHCb-CERN) - core development, PyCool, CMT configuration, LHCb integration
• David Front (IT/LCG-Weizmann) - performance validation and stress tests


• Former members of the COOL team:
• Ulrich Moosbrugger (Atlas-Mainz) - examples, performance optimization


• COOL contrib packages, COOL experiment integration:
• Nuno Barros (Atlas-Lisbon/CERN) - Atlas integration
• Jim Cook (Atlas-CERN) - Atlas PVSS integration
• Richard Hawkings (Atlas-CERN) - Atlas integration supervision
• Antoine Perus (Atlas-Orsay) - performance benchmark setup, Atlas integration
• Shaun Roe (Atlas-CERN) - XmlCool, Atlas integration
• RD Schaffer (Atlas-Orsay) - Atlas integration
• Stefan Stonjek (Atlas-Oxford) - data distribution tests
• Torre Wenaus (Atlas-BNL) - PyCoolServer, Atlas integration supervision
• Federico Zema (Atlas-Calabria) - Cool2Root, COOL_IO, StandaloneCool, Atlas integration


• Collaborators of related projects and former collaborators:
• The POOL, SEAL and CORAL teams
• Antonio Amorim, Joao Simoes, Lourenco Vaz, Nuno Barros, Tiago Franco, Dinis Klose, Jorge Lima, Luis Pedro (CondDBMySQL development team)
• Vakho Tsulaia (HVS for the Atlas detector description)

Releases

• Available COOL releases
• COOL release notes (current release: COOL_1_3_0 production release)

Meetings

• Conditions Database regular meetings and minutes
• POOL regular meetings and minutes
• LCG Application Area meetings
• ATLAS database meetings
• CMS database meetings
• CERN agenda system

Code Browser and User Documentation

• Browse the COOL CVS repository via viewcvs
• Browse the CVS repositories of other LCG projects via viewcvs: PI, POOL (also CORAL), SEAL, SPI, SPITOOLS
• Cross-check via lxr
• LCG software reference guide using dOxygen
• How to use the COOL software in the LCG SCRAM v0.20.0 environment
• Getting started with the COOL software using SCRAM v0.20.0 (RAL implementation with Oracle, MySQL and SQLite backends)
• SCRAM documentation (v0.20.0, v1.0.1)
• COOL contrib packages (not included in the tagged COOL_1_3_0 release):
• Cool2Root (Federico Zema): message, viewcvs
• COOL_IO (Federico Zema): message, viewcvs
• PyCoolServer (Torre Wenaus): message, README, viewcvs
• StandaloneCool (Federico Zema): message, viewcvs
• XmlCool (Shaun Roe): README, viewcvs
• VerificationClient (David Front): README, viewcvs

Deployment issues

• Tools for COOL deployment on Oracle
• Tools and suggestions for COOL performance optimization
• Atlas deployment
• Atlas use of DCS data for monitoring and reconstruction (August 2005, Savannah task #2409)
• LHCb deployment
• LHCb first guesses on CondDB access (September 2005)

Developers' Corner

• How to release the COOL software
• CVS Service for LCG
• Use CVSROOT = :kserver:cool.cvs.cern.ch:/cvs/COOL for write access to the repository
• Use CVSROOT = :pserver:anonymous@cool.cvs.cern.ch:/cvs/COOL for anonymous read access to the repository.
• More information about the migration from conditionsdb.cvs.cern.ch to cool.cvs.cern.ch
• Configuration: COOL_1_3_0 is based on LCG_43_2
• COOL private SCRAM RequirementsDoc for COOL_1_3_0
• For comparison: SPITOOLS Configuration for LCG_43_2
• CVS documentation
• COOL reference schema (Oracle)
• COOL unit test coverage reports (latest release)
• How to build COOL for Windows using WINE on Linux
• WINE (WINE Is Not a [Windows] Emulator!)
• Installing SLC3 software on FedoraCore (LHCb recipe linked 'as is' - never tried for COOL)

LCG Links

• LCG Application Area projects : PI, POOL, SEAL, SPI
• LCG Deployment Area projects : 3D (Distributed Database Deployment)
• LCG Application Area Documents
• Proposal to bring the Conditions Database into the Applications Area scope (P. Mato, May 2003)
• Architecture Area Program of Work for LCG Phase 2 (September 2005)
• LCG Application Area dOxygen documentation

Other Useful Links

• Conditions Database users in the LHC experiments (incomplete list!):
• Atlas online database page
• Atlas COOL Twiki
• Atlas 2004 Test-Beam (data summary, data browser)
• Atlas Muon Alignment project (ASAP software)
• Detector Controls System projects for the LHC experiments
• IT-CO projects and services (JCOP Project, Framework Project, PVSS Service)
• Conditions Database projects not related to the LHC:
• BaBar CDB project (I. Gaponenko et al.): HyperNews (SLAC users only), CVS repository (main packages: CdbBase, CdbBdb, CdbBdbTests)
• Obsolete ConditionsDB documentation