DM Highlights 2016-07-20 to 2016-07-26

timj · July 27, 2016, 10:38pm

Preparations for the Director’s Review concluded this week.

Accomplishments

An initial investigation into using JS9 with Jupyter to view FITS images has been completed. (DM-6847, DM-6848)
An analysis of the performance of the decorrelation correction to Alard and Lupton and ZOGY approaches for difference imaging has been completed. (DM-6244, DM-6580)

RFC-206: PROPOSED Reconstitute TCT.
RFC-205 PROPOSED Disallow if False: for “block comments” in python.
RFC-203: PROPOSED Use lsst::log in pipeline tasks and deprecate pex_logging.
RFC-202: IMPLEMENTED Builds are optimised by default.
RFC-199: ADOPTED Add new metadata to ExposureInfo.
RFC-195: WITHDRAWN Split DecamMapper.

A problem with oversampling settings in psfex has been fixed. (DM-6982)
Work on pybind11 experimentation continues. (DM-6303)
The Python 3 port is progressing and daf_base can now be built and passes all tests on both Python 3 and Legacy Python. Please contact @timj if you are interested in testing Python 3 before the August meeting.
Jenkins can now submit jobs using Python 3. (DM-6890)
A problem with test ordering when using the new scheme for memory testing has been fixed. (DM-6998)
Builds of the stack now use -O3 optimization level by default. (DM-7010)
Jenkins was updated to version 2.x. (DM-5980)