Month 2025-10: Delivered a key feature for the TPC Detector in AliceO2Group/AliceO2: user-configurable HBF integrity check. Introduced a new configuration flag 'check-incomplete-hbf' to enable or disable the incomplete HBF check, defaulting to silent to reduce noise while preserving the option to enable detailed validation when needed. This change enhances data processing flexibility, error reporting control, and reliability in production workflows.

September 2025 progress for AliceO2 (AliceO2Group/AliceO2). Delivered key TPC data handling and visualization improvements, enhanced traceability for DCS configuration, and tuned diagnostics to reduce log noise. Implementations span data type extensions, plotting controls, CCDB metadata, logging behavior, and voxel binning support in the painter, aligning with core reliability, performance, and data correctness objectives.

July 2025 monthly summary for AliceO2Group/O2DPG. Focused on data quality and reliability in the TPC processing path. Implemented an unconditional TPC common-mode correction for legacy CCDB data by forcing DigiMode to 2 (ZeroSuppressionCMCorr), ensuring correction is applied in all cases to prevent issues from legacy CMk values stored in CCDB for data predating a timestamp. This change reduces data quality risk in pre-timestamp data and strengthens the integrity of downstream analyses.

June 2025 monthly summary for AliceO2Group/AliceO2: Delivered Time Gain Calibration Enhancement introducing the use of TPC tracks from global track matches, improved reading of calibration data from files, and refactored the DCA calculation to optionally utilize global track information and DCAz, resulting in a more robust and flexible calibration process. This work enhances calibration robustness, flexibility, and data quality across runs, contributing to more accurate timing calibrations in physics analyses. No high-priority bugs fixed this month; focus was on feature delivery and code quality. Commit reference included below for traceability.

Monthly performance summary for 2025-03 highlighting key features delivered, major fixes, and overall impact across the O2DPG and AliceO2 repositories. Emphasis on business value, data quality, processing flexibility, and traceability through configuration enhancements, data filtering improvements, and streamlined I/O handling.

February 2025 performance summary for AliceO2Group/AliceO2 and AliceO2Group/O2DPG. The month delivered targeted features and robust bug fixes that improve data quality, calibration workflows, and MC analysis reproducibility, with strong traceability to commits and clear business value across production and DCS CCDB integrations. Key work focused on Monte Carlo usage controls, new track-selection criteria, enhanced logging, and calibration publishing pipelines.

January 2025 monthly summary focusing on TPC reconstruction quality, calibration accuracy, UI clarity, configuration resilience, and MC simulation support. Delivered four key items across AliceO2 and O2DPG with clear business value: improved calibration accuracy for Space Point calibration, enhanced event-display usability, robust configuration loading via CCDB redirects, and MC-time-gain support in TPC reconstruction.

December 2024 monthly summary for AliceO2Group/AliceO2. This month focused on data integrity improvements, enhanced reporting capabilities, and configuration flexibility to support better data validation, visualization, and configurable correction workflows.

Month: 2024-11 — Delivered three major features in AliceO2Group/AliceO2 focusing on configurability, data analysis granularity, and detector simulation accuracy. Key accomplishments include enabling runtime configuration for track interpolation via maxZ2X, enhancing Mapper with pad-category analysis for finer TPC data inspection, and introducing ExcludeFCGap to filter electrons between the IFC-OFC gap during processing, which reduces spurious readout entries and improves TPC simulation fidelity. Commits referenced: b5dd61f47bbfdb4617b805079c54fa248b581748; 62d9460d4c6e5ec1c2d2a7e05caaab2c27017108; a4f9b969f67db1439354ca98d01b5b07fbc1b.