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Documentation Working Group
The Geant4 documentation working group is responsible for maintaining and
improving the User Documentation and user-related areas of the GEANT4 Web
site, and ensuring a consistent and positive public presentation of GEANT4
through the Web.
The User
Documentation consists of six Books, presented in both PDF and HTML
formats, plus a Web-based interface to the source code:
Documentation for the GEANT4 Software Examples are maintained on
separate Web sites:
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- John Allison, Manchester/G4AI
- Maintain the documentation in the User's Guide and related examples for
visualization.
- Katsuya Amako, KEK (previous coordinator)
- Support the coordinator's work.
- Gabriele Cosmo, CERN
- Provide consultation for improvement of the global
structure of documentation.
- Gunter Folger, CERN
- GEANT4 Web Coordinator
- Support for Web-based documentation and Web management tools, ensure
conherence between Web presentation of seaprate documentation services.
- Ivana Hrivnacova, IN2P3/IPN Orsay
- Maintain the documentation of the novice, basic, and extended examples,
both in the User's Guide and the Doxygen-generated Web area.
- Michael Kelsey, SLAC (coordinator)
- Coordinate activities of maintaining and improving all
documents listed above.
- Ben Morgan, Warwick
- Support for installation and distribution instructions, management
tools.
- Joseph Perl, SLAC
- Maintain the documentation in the User's Guide and related examples for
visualization. Advise on public presentation and outreach documentation.
- Dennis Wright, SLAC (acting deputy coordinator)
- Support the coordinator's work.
Each working group coordinator is responsible for ensuring the
maintenance of documentation (User's Guides, Installation Guide, Physics,
Examples) which cover their physics and software domain.
Major Section Developers
- John Apostolakis, CERN
- Geometry and navigation.
- Makoto Asai, SLAC
- Run, event and geometry, including multithreading support.
- Peter Gumplinger, TRIUMF
- Optical physics processes, materials properties for optical physics.
- Vladimir Ivanchenko, CERN
- Electromagnetic physics.
- Michel Maire, IN2P3
- Electromagnetic physics.
- Marc Verderi, LLR/IN2P3
- Fast simulation, shower parametrization.
- Dennis Wright, SLAC
- Radioactive decay, intranuclear cascade.
The 2013 work plan is available.
Make available updated users' documents in accordance with major/minor
Geant4 code releases. Also irregular revisions of the documents
are expected.
Make available updated users' documents in accordance with major/minor
Geant4 code releases. Also irregular revisions of the documents
are expected.
Make available updated users' documents in accordance with major/minor
Geant4 code releases. Also irregular revisions of the documents
are expected.
Make available updated users' documents in accordance with major/minor
Geant4 code releases. Also irregular revisions of the documents
are expected.
The transition from HTML to DocBook based documentation was successfully
completed in the last year. The new scheme (i.e. the DocBook format)
is already stable and the last three releases (V8.3, V9.0, V9.1) are based
on it.
In this year, because of the stability of the newly developed documentation
scheme, we don't have a challenging plan as we had in the last year.
We are planning to release all users' documents in accordance with
Geant4 code releases.
DocBook Project
The aim of the DocBook project is to convert the following user documents
into the DocBook format:
- IntroductionToGeant4
- InstallationGuide
- ForApplicationDeveloper
- ForToolkitDeveloper
The global time schedule for this project is as follows:
- Dec. 2006:
- Release the alpha version of the above documents in DocBook format to
working group coordinators. (done)
- Jan. 2007:
- Accept comments to the alpha version from working group coordinators
(by the end of January)
- Feb. - Mar. 2007:
- Revise the alpha version based on the feedback from the working group
(by the end of March)
- Release the beta version to all G4 working group members (by the end
of March)
- Release the web instruction of how to
write G4 user doc in DocBook (by the end of March)
- Jun. 2007:
- Release in public the 1st version at the time of 1st release of the G4
codes in 2007.
- 31 January 2013, 18h00 CET/09:00 am PST
- Agenda: Discuss 2013 work plan
- Dial-in number: +41227676000 (English-US, Main)
- Access code: 0105318
- Web interface: https://audioconf.cern.ch/call/0105318
