OpSim Team Weekly Meeting

Nov 6, 2013 - 9:30 PST / 10:30 MST


Tucson Location:  LSST Conference Room

Videocom: IP 140.252.24.8 (Direct Dial)

Telecom: 1-866-330-1200 Participant Code 860-9352#


Agenda

  1. Target Dates (discuss and confirm)
    • Docs for team review - Nov 30, 2013
    • Internal reviewing of docs - week of Dec 23, 2013 (Andy to get volunteers)
    • OpSim Dry Run - week of Jan 20, 2014
    • OpSim External Review - week of Feb 3, 2014
  2. Review Draft of External Review Charge
  3. Deliverables (status and review Activity Plan)
    • Documents on List
    • Validate and deliver OpSim 3.0  -  Nov 30, 2013
    • OpSim 3.0 cadence runs:   TBD
  4. Plan for Metric Analysis FrameWork Design 
    • updates from Srini
  5. Plan for transition to git (discuss)
    • Francisco to work with Andy on steps & dates
    • after External review
    • what about slalib
    • Changes to v3.0

Attendees:  Steve, Kem, Cathy, Srini, Francisco, Andy, George, Chuck

Notable

OpSim Technical Review - Charge to the Committee

  • We'll need to develop and agenda (.5-2days) , and plan presentations accordingly
  • Describe current Simulator architecture and plans to improve and develop going forward
  • Will refer to MAF and SSTAR  & Metrics but won't be reviewing these tools
  • Part of the outcome will be a plan of work & resources through Construction
  • Examples of documentation can be found on the ImSim confluence page

Transistion to git

  • Francisco to work with Andy on tasks and timeline
  • will need some time for implementation and learning curve
  • Only putting OpSim codebase on git (not SSTAR which will be replaced by MAF)
  • plan so it doesn't interfere with Review preparations

Metric Analysis Framework next steps

  • Discussion tomorrow
  • Documents
    • Design document (Lynne and Srini)
    • Document describing how to interrogate the DB (Simon & Srini)
  • Allow a week or so for comments
  • Formal design review 

Upcoming Deadlines

  • Outlines for all documents - Nov 13, 2013
  • Docs ready for team review - Nov 30, 2013
  • Internal reviewing of docs - week of Dec 23, 2013
  • OpSim Dry Run - week of Jan 20, 2014
  • OpSim Technical Review - week of Feb 3, 2014

 

Point

Editors

Item/Component

Srini

Cathy

    • Release SSTAR v4.0
    • Document: SSTAR Codebase Description
    • Metrics Analysis Framework

Steve

Srini

    • Document: Metrics

Abi

Kem, Steve

    • Document: Path to the Scheduler (incl budget)

Francisco

Kem, Abi

    • V3.0 remaining clean up & release
    • Document: Simulator Requirements
    • Document: Simulator Description

Kem

Abi, Steve

      • Document: Reference Run Package for CCB

 

Cathy

Kem, Francisco

    • Document: Validation


Other

  • Srini & Francisco will represent OpSim at this Friday's ImSim Meeting
  • Francisco, Kem, Srini & Steve all interested in representing OpSim needs at CameraGeom meeting
  • Defer "Handbook" or "How to Use" documentation for Simulator and SSTAR to April/June meetings

Action Items

  • All - Monthly Report draft will be circulated tomorrow - submit your content
  • All - Outlines for all documents to be reviewed at the meeting next week
  • Abi - Draft 2 day agenda for Technical Review to meet Charge
  • All - Add your travel to the Workspace calendar
  • Srini – write up the plan for switching bug/tracking software from Mantis to JIRA, with a solution for the Run Log.
  • Cathy - work with Kem and Iain to backup old machines and relocate data to newer machines.
  • Srini - SSTAR histograms don't get created on opsimblitz1;  SSTAR doesn't run on Steve's machine


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