feat: first daq config timeline

[Sangbaek]

What's this PR about?

Related to the issue #338 ,

@bobae0124 developed a timeline for the DAQ config, such as ATOF pedestals, when there is timeline_daq config, such as

/volatile/clas12/bobaekim/clas12-timeline/outfiles/alert-daqconfig/timeline_daqconfig/

How was timeline_daqconfig prepared?

The timeline_daqconfig was from evio2xml output.

The next thing is probably to add this step somewhere in the script, rather than bash command lines.

[c-dilks]

please put the changes you want in qtl-analysis, not a new script

[Sangbaek]

We are not using any of .hipo output, produced by qtl-histogram. Should we still need qtl-analysis?

[c-dilks]

please put the changes you want in run_analysis.groovy, not a new script

[Sangbaek]

Again, it's not analysis of histogram from qtl-histogram. Does it have to be in run_analysis.groovy?

[c-dilks]

what produces these *.daq.config files?

[Sangbaek]

Probably evio2xml -maxevents 0 /cache/clas12/rg-l/data/clas_0[run]/clas_0[run].evio.00000 | grep PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME >> [run]/out_ALERT_[run].daq.config

[Sangbaek]

It's not even in a hipo format. It's just txt file like,

PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME               200 # Use value below ~400 for ALERT ATOF signals
#PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME                 500 # Use value above ~400 for Pulser Injector signals
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME               200 # Use value below ~400 for ALERT ATOF signals
#PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME                 500 # Use value above ~400 for Pulser Injector signals
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME  312
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME  312
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME  304
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME  304
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PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME  306
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PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME  324
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME  324
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME  302
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME  302
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME  344
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME  344
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME  304
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME  304
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 114
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 114
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 50
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 50
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 306
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 306
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 434
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PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 82
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PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 306
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PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 210
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PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 242
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PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 482
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PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 402
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 402
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 338
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PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 138
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PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 466
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PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 106
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 106
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 50
PETIROC_REG_VTH_TIME 50

[Sangbaek]

In conclusion, pipeline is totally different from qtl-analysis, which takes .hipo file from qtl-histogram. This is the first set of run daq config, which has never run before. I suggest a separate script and directory, because of the same reason we have a separate qtl-physics for physics timeline from qtl-histogram+qtl-analysis for detector timeline.

The daq config is fixed when we take the data, and it doesn't have to be produced every time we update detector timeline.

[c-dilks]

The diff between qtl-daqconfig and qtl-analysis is very small, and similarly for run_analysis.groovy and run_daqconfig.groovy; putting the changes that you need in the existing scripts should be straightforward, whereas copying these scripts and making minimal changes is a serious DRY violation.

I think it's perfectly fine to make qtl-histogram create text files and have qtl-analysis read them; this is done in the qtl-histogram -> qtl-physics sequence already.

Note that qtl-physics is currently a kluge, needed until I can re-implement the qa-physics/ code more cleanly in src/, after which qtl-analysis will also create physics timelines and qtl-phyics can finally be removed. That will take quite some time, though.