Date

Attendees

Discussion items

WhoNotes
Simon
  • Not much to report
  • Russell is working on sanitizing the astrometry interfaces with the task
  • Simon is working on the tool to build the relevant pieces of an exposure from fits files so they can be assembled, etc.
Jacek
  • Not much new to report
  • Jacek has been consumed by talk preparation for the National Academy of Science meeting next week.
    • He got a lot of useful feedback from K-T and Don which he's folding in.
  • Jacek is also handling the random logistical arrangements necessary when a group is rapidly expanding, e,g: finding office space, arranging desktops, etc.
  • On the technical side, no blockers
    • There are Confluence notes for the group's two meetings this week: Monday's Data Access meeting and Wednesday's Qserv meeting.
John
  • Princeton is moving ahead with recruitment
    • Yesterday Jim, Robert and John interviewed two candidates and they will interview more over the coming weeks.
  • Perry and John have looked into the problem where the 'lsst_dm_stack_demo' simple stack validation test for a new user stack – is returning different results (beyond rounding errors) between Linux and OSx runs.
    • They will continue to explore the cause in the next sprint.
    • This is especially important since we've told the users to utilize this test to verify that their stack is 'good'.
  • John also finished his brain dump on the info he's figured out the hard way over the last 6 weeks or so on working on the stack.
Margaret
  • Greg has been spent time over the last few weeks building the stack in various combinations of operating systems and platforms
    • He has now compiled a suite of the Docker files which will create the Docker images of those combinations .
      • The list is on a Jira Issue currently (probably: DM-1404 - Getting issue details... STATUS .
    • He'd like to know if there is a place on Confluence where he should document these Docker files. 
      • They are now installed in github and DockerHub.
      • Mario suggested that he send email to dm-devel since there are a number of developers who are doing similar things.
Mario
  • Not much to report
  • He spent this meeting trying out different audio equipment in preparation for Gene Magnier's talk next week on Ancillaries.
Xiuqin
  • The group has gotten permission from the Office of Technology Transfer to use the BSD license for the open source code being extracted from the IRSA tool.
    • The completion of the extraction may take longer than previously estimated.
  • She had additional useful discussions with Jacek et al. on Data Access.  
    • They are working on Data Definitions tables and other tables needed for metadata storage.
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