QCD Group Blessing Procedure

• Your analysis should have been presented in a QCD group meeting at least once in the previous couple of months.

• Preblessing takes place two weeks before blessing.
• Before your preblessing talk, write and post a CDF note describing your analysis.
• Give a preblessing talk at the QCD meeting. This talk should describe the analysis and clearly identify plots that are to be blessed.
• Note carefully any questions or requests made during your preblessing talk so that you can deal with them before the blessing talk.

• Blessing usually takes place at the QCD meeting following preblessing.
• At least one day before your blessing talk, put the ps files for plots to be blessed in your blessed plots area on CDFSGA. Your blessed plots area will be /data38/jet/physics/xxxxx where xxxxx is a name created for your subtopic (for example /data38/jet/physics/diffractive is the blessed plot area for the diffractive analyses). If we have not already created an area for your topic, let the QCD conveners know and it will be done. Also put into your blessed plots area an html in the standard format ... ask the conveners for an example, or look at the source code for one of the existing blessed plots items accessed via the internal qcd page (not the public qcd page which delivers a sanitized version of the blessed plots htmls).
  
  Please note that all filenames in the html are typed in lower case .... this is important because UNIX cares.

  Give a blessing talk in the QCD meeting in which you summarize the analysis, respond to any questions or requests from the preblessing, and discuss the plots to be blessed.

  After your blessing talk, make any changes, additions, or deletions agreed to in the meeting, and then replace the ps files in your blessed plots are on CDFSGA. If you look at your blessed plots area you will notice that there is a /public subdirectory hanging off it. Copy the html from your blessed plots area into the public subdirectory, and edit it for public consumption (remove references to cdf notes and anything else that should not be in the public domain). Make sure this html points up one level to the ps files (i.e. filename xxxx in the original html --> ../xxxx.

  To complete the blessing process, let the qcd conveners know that the files are in place. The conveners will then make the last link to bring your stuff into the public domain. Finally, once this is done, please check that the blessed plots stuff you get on www is ok for both the internal and public qcd pages.

  When all the above has been done, your plots are blessed and may be shown in public.