Powheg-RES integration

[mseidel42]

• Pythia8 showering hook
• reading compressed LHE weights

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @intrepid42 (Markus Seidel) for CMSSW_7_1_X.

It involves the following packages:

GeneratorInterface/Pythia8Interface

@cmsbuild, @govoni, @perrozzi, @thuer, @davidlange6 can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@agrohsje, @mkirsano this is something you requested to watch as well.
@davidlange6, @smuzaffar you are the release manager for this.

cms-bot commands are listed here #13028

[perrozzi]

please test

[cmsbuild]

The tests are being triggered in jenkins.
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/jenkins/job/ib-any-integration/17383/console Started: 2017/01/23 16:10

[cmsbuild]

+1
Tested at: d192eb8
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-17251/17383/summary.html

[cmsbuild]

Comparison job queued.

[cmsbuild]

Comparison is ready
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-17251/17383/summary.html

[perrozzi]

+1

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_7_1_X IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request requires discussion in the ORP meeting before it's merged. @davidlange6, @smuzaffar

[perrozzi]

@intrepid42 what would be the timescale for a 71X release with this PR included?

[mseidel42]

@perrozzi It would be nice to have this ready for central production as soon as possible

[perrozzi]

ok, so @davidlange6 please merge and make a new 71X release at your earliest conveinence

[davidlange6]

hi- what is/was the 90x PR for this?

[mseidel42]

#16604 and #17246

[davidlange6]

+1

thanks