DM Highlights 2016-07-13 to 2016-07-19

[timj (Tim Jenness)]

Work continues on the LDM-151 update and preparation of talks for the Director’s Review.

Accomplishments

• The butler has been modified to support multiple repositories with improved config system. (DM-6459, DM-5548)
• The log package been significantly enhanced (especially from the Python side). (DM-6521)

Documentation

• Meeting Report: AstroLabe Project Workshop by @afausti.

RFC Activity

• RFC-201: FLAGGED LDM-PMT needs TCT approval.
• RFC-200: IMPLEMENTED Make TAN_PIXELS cameraGeom coordinate be with respect to the center of the focal plane.
• RFC-198: ADOPTED Cleanup and unify star selector call signatures.
• RFC-184: IMPLEMENTED Proposed changes to Butler (and its API) for multiple repository support.

Other Items

• There has been some testing of Bright-Fatter correction in single-frame processing of HSC data. (DM-6830)
• Some tests of NGMIX have completed. (DM-6893, DM-6300)
• Improvements to pybind11. (DM-6783)
• The reference object loader code has been moved from pipe_tasks to meas_algorithms. (DM-6651)