DM Highlights 2016-08-03 to 2016-08-09

timj · August 10, 2016, 8:06pm

Preparations continue for the NSF/DOE Joint Status Review next week.

Accomplishments

Work on migrating the stack to support Python 2 and 3 continues. A hack seesion will be held at the LSST 2016 meeting on the afternoon of Tuesday 16th August. The following packages can now be used on both Python versions: base, ndarray, pex_exceptions, pex_policy, pex_logging, pex_config, daf_base, utils, daf_persistence, log, ctrl_events. (DM-6179)
A discussion on the C++ wrapping of the AST library has been started.
An integration test for jointcal using CFHT data has been released. (DM-6623)

The deployment of the stack documentation generated by doxygen has been fixed. The web pages had not been updated since the end of June. (DM-7080)
A document on the Requirements and Design for composite datasets in butler has been written.
The installation instructions on dm.lsst.org have been updated for v12.0.

RFC-211: PROPOSED Design for new WCS and XYTransform.
RFC-210: FLAGGED Cost updates to Site Specific Infrastructure Estimation (LDM-144) and Explanation (LDM-143).
RFC-55: IMPLEMENTED Retire lsst_libs EUPS metapackage.
RFC-53: IMPLEMENTED RFD and design discussion time slot.