Project.py is a high level interface program used by Liquid Argon TPC experiments to create, submit and monitor physics analysis jobs and workflows that use the LarSoft Framework.
Project.py was originally developed by Herbert Greenlee for us in the MicroBooNE experiment. The success of the project has lead to its adoption across a wide range of neutrino physics experiments including MicroBooNE, Lariat, DUNE/ProtoDUNE, ICARUS and the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab.
Project.py-2018 is the next generation of Liquid Argon submission software, designed to interact with large computing facilities, storage systems and new analysis tools.
The liquid argon community has been heavily involved in the development of the software tools that are used to analyze detector data. The community uses "common tools" which work across multiple experiments and computing environments. This approach benefits both the developers and the analyzers by providing new researchers with proven, easy to use tools and by lowering the learning curve needed for new collaborators to use and contribute to the software.
Project.py and the other batch submission tools are part of this common tools model. Members of the community are welcome and encouraged to contribute the project.
The project.py team believes in the model of regular, stable releases. New releases and their feature sets are scheduled for release approximately quarterly. Each of these releases is considered "production quality" and is intended to be used by the community.
Bugfixes and other point releases are available on a quicker timescale. Feature branches and other bleeding edge develop code is available directly from the repository.