Re: Re: Wikipedia criticism about root

From: Leif Hendrik Wilden <wilden_at_slac.stanford.edu>
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:04:30 -0700

Hi,

Valeri Onuchin wrote:

> Do we really urgently need to support FITS format?
> as far as I know FITS format is an image format used by astronomical community
> for data interchange and archival storage. It is not used in HEP (correct me).
> If ROOT users request for FITS format support we will provide it asap.

The LSST community is also using the FITS format as its standard image data format. Quite a few former HEP people are now working with LSST. Having native support for the fits file format in ROOT would help the adoption of ROOT in the astrophysics community and in LSST.

Cheers,
- Leif.

>
> Regards. Valeriy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-roottalk_at_pcroot.cern.ch on behalf of Andy Buckley
> Sent: Wed 6/28/2006 8:02 PM
> To: roottalk (Mailing list discussing all aspects of the ROOT system)
> Subject: Re: [ROOT] Re: Wikipedia criticism about root
>
> Fine, Valeri wrote:
>

>>Hello Andy,
>>
>>Would you mind to introduce yourself?

>
>
> I'm a HEP researcher at the IPPP phenomenology group in Durham, UK.
> Previously I was a PhD student in the Cambridge, UK LHCb group. Nowadays
> most of my work is on MC generator interfacing, tuning etc. (CEDAR,
> Rivet, HepML, ...) and HepData.
>
>

>>Does your statement 
>>
>>
>>>Please CC me on any ROOTtalk discussion about this: I'm not a
>>>subscriber.
>>
>>indicates that you are not  aware about the current status of ROOT and
>>the ROOT progress?

>
>
> No, I just don't use ROOT any more and so don't have any need to read
> what's on this list. I've temporarily re-subscribed for this discussion.
>
> Other than what I saw presented at PhyStat05, CHEP06 and generally being
> in touch with people who use(d) ROOT, I'm not actively tracking ROOT's
> development. I'm happy to be corrected and would be over the moon to
> hear if issues I've raised have been fixed.
>
>

>>Before starting any discussion, it would be nice to know where your
>>information about ROOT coming from.
>>It may have spared  us a lot of talking hours. 
>>
>>Are you an active ROOT user / developer  for example ?

>
>
> I *was* an active user and made a couple of very minor development
> contributions (a bug fix in hadd, maybe something else). Nowadays I just
> keep as up to date as possible through indirect channels. As far as I
> can see, though, my criticisms are still valid.
>
> Andy
>
>
>
Received on Mon Jul 03 2006 - 20:04:44 MEST