DM Highlights 2016-07-27 to 2016-08-02

[timj (Tim Jenness)]

Accomplishments

• jointcal now has a validation test based on HSC data. (DM-6622)
• An example Python meas_base plugin hsa been written. (DM-6301)
• Reference objects can be loaded from HTM-indexed catalogs
• A shared stack is now available at NCSA to allow access from the condor pool. (DM-6968)

Documentation

• DMTN-002 has been updated with the current state of SuperTask. (DM-6854)
• Documentation has been added to meas_extensions_ngmix. (DM-6788)

RFC Activity

• RFC-209: PROPOSED Explicitly default or delete automatically-generated members in C++.
• RFC-208: FLAGGED Place the PDAC Data Access Policy under change control.
• RFC-207: ADOPTED Rename Afterburner plugins to CatalogCalculation plugins.
• RFC-204: ADOPTED Move all config and tract/patch dataset definitions to base CameraMapper.
• RFC-203: ADOPTED Use lsst::log in pipeline tasks and deprecate pex_logging.

Other Items

• SWIG has been updated to version 3.0.10 in order to support the Python 3 migration. This required some very minor changes to existing code. (DM-1972)
• A spatially invariant decorrelation correction factor to Alard and Lupton for difference imaging has been studied. (DM-6243)
• The 1D DCR correction code has been enhanced to be more efficient. (DM-6860)
• Document URLs using LSST The Docs can now resolve correctly without including a trailing slash. (DM-5894)
• The pybind11 experiment is continuing with all packages required by afw now wrapped. (DM-6832)