DM Weekly Highlights 2016-10-05 to 2016-10-11

[timj (Tim Jenness)]

Accomplishments

• A major improvement to the handling of generic exposure metadata was completed. Pipeline tasks no longer need to query FITS headers directly. (DM-5503)
• Following RFC-230, daf_butlerUtils has been renamed to obs_base. (DM-7915)
• Stripe82 co-adds are now available at the PDAC. (DM-7748)

Documentation

• I/O flow through L1 Prompt Processing swim lane diagram. (DM-7707)
• Poster to be presented at ADASS XXVI next week: Porting the LSST Data Management Pipeline Software to Python 3. (DM-7864)
• Current orchestration internals. (DM-7868)
• https://community.lsst.org now has documented community guidelines including a code of conduct and disclaimer. (DM-7845)
• Following a discussion, the developer guide was updated to have more discussion on the use of force push of git branches. (DM-7919)
• The DR processing data flow diagram was updated. (DM-7916)

RFC Activity

• RFC-242: PROPOSED Prefer parentheses (or nothing) to braces in C++ initialization.
• RFC-230: ADOPTED Rename daf_butlerUtils to obs_base.
• RFC-228: WITHDRAWN Renamed obs_test to obs_example.
• RFC-187: IMPLEMENTED Remove DetectAndMeasureTask.
• RFC-143: IMPLEMENTED Refactor aperture corrections and measurement afterburners.

Other items

• A --show history option has been added to cmdLineTask. (DM-5421)
• pybind11 progress continues to be made. (DM-7519)
• The enum constants for time system and scale in daf_base.DateTime have been changed such that they do not have the same values in Python. Before this MJD and UTC could be used interchangeably. (DM-7745)