Finding information

• Tutorials, training and email lists are grouped into the Beginner page
• The web pages of simulation, reconstruction, core, SIT, sub-detectors, etc... are grouped into the Software Domains page
• All informations about the releases status, notes, plan are grouped into the Software Release page.
• Atlas Wiki - The Wiki page for Atlas computing issues

Releases building

• Releases area - access to builds on afs
• Tag collector - tags used in nightlies and releases
• Nightly builds
• Stable releases (NICOS documentation)
• Savannah Bug Tracking System
• Bug Tracking Archive

Code management and distribution

• CMT documentation and tutorials
• How to install the Atlas offline software - Instructions for installing and running the atlas software on your own computer using the Pacman-based distribution kit. Plus info on the status of the distribution kits for various releases and platforms. (Note this is a link to the AtlasComputing Wiki - afs login details are required for access.)

Package development

• User Guide
• How-to
• Other sit tools and recipes
• General purpose scripts

Quality Assurance, Testing and Validation

• Quality Assurance group coding rules and tools
• Guidelines for offline preparation and testing of LVL2 code
• Testing guidelines
• CppUnit Testing in nightlies
• RunTimeTester nightly testing results
• RunTimeTester documentation

The Atlas offline CVS Repository hosted by CERN Central CVS Service

• How to access the atlas offline cvs repository
• You can see the commit rights file here
• You can see the tag rights file here
• viewcvs - Web interface to CVS Repository
• LXR - cross-referencing tool for fast searches of our software. In case of problems, please submit ticket at BNL via their Problem Report System
  • U.S. Atlas LXR server
  • LXR search page
• Cmt Grapher - a tool to display the inter-package dependencies
• External software - a tool to display the location of external software
• US-Atlas software server - can be used as a backup

The librarians and CVS experts corner

• Librarian's how-to
• Migration to the CERN CVS Service : how and When
• Installation of Kerberos 4
• The automated sheduling of routine tasks