DM Highlights Week of 2016-03-16 to 2016-03-22

[timj (Tim Jenness)]

The end of this period coincided with the beginning of the Python in Astronomy 2016 conference.

Releases

• A new weekly release was tagged: w_2016_12

Accomplishments

• The sphgeom spherical geometry package now has a Python binding. DM-5521
• Queues are now supported in ctrl_events. DM-5292
• Patches from HSC have been integrated into meas_algorithms. DM-5282

Presentation

• @mgckind gave a talk on How DES uses easyaccess and experiments with Jupyterhub

Documentation

• SQR-011: “DM Documentation Platform” has been released.
• Initial design work on SuperTask is now complete. DM-4265

RFCs

• Adopted: RFC-161: Make the background model part of the exposure