• Created by Unknown User (robyn), last modified on Jul 30, 2014

Date

Attendees

Discussion items

AndyB

  • Andy fixed ip_diffim's unittests so that asserts check against 'almost equal'.
  • Andy will be spending the next 2 weeks  working on Task documentation; he has 4 tasks to deal with and is starting after the meeting.

K-T

  • The Middleware team has been moving forward.
    • They are instrumenting the current simulator to better understand it and  to prepare a couple things:
      • First: making a nice demo, maybe something more visual; and
      • Second: to understand some of the time delays that are involved in running the  simulation that HTCondor produces.
      • These are moving ahead
  • Steve is also helping JeffK with some of the NFS questions.
  • K-T has made progress on the butler design; he's posted a  Confluence page: Data Butler - Current Design, with a slightly enhanced design sketch since the last time - which  was many months ago.   The document will be discussed at the noon SAT meeting.

Jacek

  • The group is conducting interviews for their position(s).  The pool has a number of reasonable candidates.
  • Regarding logging:  it is packaged, it's working and is under review.
    • Jacek told K-T that DB team doesn't need to wait for Fabrice to return before releasing log and lox4cxx . The DB Team will put the new log package. into the official normal distribution site.
    • The product is packaged in two parts: 'log4cxx'  is an external package being distributed from Apache; and 'log' which is replacing 'pex_logging'. 'Log' is a new implementation but provides the same features as the old 'pex_logging'.

Dick

  • DIck is currently looking into iPython Notebooks in order to determine what would be most interesting and illustrative to do with them.
  • Question: Has the schedule been finalized for the AllHands Meeting  for Mon morning? Are we planning any formal or informal session for then?
    • K-T said there is nothing formal planned for Monday am but  feels DM should try to use that slot if possible.
    • Dick motive for asking was to determine if there was some reason why he should arrive at the Meeting on Sunday night instead of Monday morning. 
    • K-T knows Jeff doesn't want anything planned for Friday afternoon.
  • Dick asked Knute and friends to take a look at the Software User Guide to get a high level sense if there are any holes that need to be addressed by the AllHands Meeting.
  •  K-T let Dick know that he (K-T) still has Dick's document in his review stack.

Robyn

  • Robyn  is working on the 3rd Party software upgrades. She thinks she has the astrometry.net problem scoped out. Stay tuned.