We spend a large amount of time supporting our large and enthusiastic user community by answering questions on the forum [1], mailing list [2] and issue tracking system [3]. Prompt user support has been the cornerstone of the success of the ROOT project.
Besides user support the ROOT team is working on a diverse set of new features. The development is done in close consultation with the user community in order to provide the most requested features first. At the same time we are engaging in some longer term developments that have a goal to ready ROOT for new platforms and technologies. The items and priorities listed below will be regularly updated to reflect the development status.
For a detailed, fine-grain, list of our development tasks browse our task tracker [4].
Rene Brun
- I/O optimizations
Fons Rademakers
- Porting ROOT to the iOS
- Updating user guide (all)
Philippe Canal
- Parallel tree merging
- I/O optimizations
- Schema Evolution Enhancements
Bertrand Bellenot
- GUI modernization (drop old win95 look & feel)
- Prototyping OpenGL implementation of TVirtualX
Olivier Couet
- 2D and 3D graphics implemented on top of OpenGL.
- See the to-do list for graphics [5] for more technical details.
Axel Naumann
- Clang [6]+LLVM [7] based interpreter backend
- Clang-based reflection
- See cling to-do list [8] and the cling web pages [9] for technical details.
Gerardo Ganis
- PROOF architecture
- Adding support for master redundancy (load-balance one or more masters on the same large cluster or across clusters); timescale: February 2011 .
- Multi-Level-Master (multi tier architecture):
- Adding dynamic setup and interface with the dataset manager (June 2011)
- Adhoc 'super-packetizer' (packetizing across sub-clusters) (Sep 2011)
- PROOF kernel
- Draw functionality via TTreePlayer, instead of adhoc implementation (Feb 2011)
- Requires possibility to process streamed TSelectors
- Interface with parallel merger (when it comes)
- Draw functionality via TTreePlayer, instead of adhoc implementation (Feb 2011)
Matevž Tadel
- Improving threading support
Lorenzo Moneta
- Improvements and new developments of Math libraries
- Improvements of data analysis classes (e.g. histograms)
- Developments of advanced statistical tools (RooStats)
Paul Russo
Vasil Vasilev
Bartolomeu Rabacal
- Multidimensional Kernel Density Estimation
Associated Projects
In addition to the developments by the ROOT team, there are a number of associated projects with their own developments: