Will try to generate a new Docker container today, load data today or tomorrow, targeting tomorrow afternoon () for a running service
Have metadata for SDSS available to serve, created in a group work session that went through all the columns in the current PDAC data
Do not have WISE metadata yet
Looking into future mechanisms for carrying metadata along with data arising as afw.table outputs, so that these problems do not arise
SQLite export of query results from dbserv would facilitate providing metadata packaged along with the query results
IBE XML export of WISE metadata appears to contain units and descriptions, but not UCDs. Wondering whether the new TAP interface at IPAC could be used to populate the UCDs. Unknown User (xiuqin) will find out who would be the best point of contact for Igor Gaponenko at IPAC on this.
Discussion of the time required to build Docker containers and other Jenkins, CI, etc. issues, some of which are brakes on the speed of the develop/deploy/test cycle.
Fritz Mueller: in particular, qserv container builds needed for testing and deployment in the PDAC were stalled behind a Doxygen s3 upload that took >10hrs! A discussion with SQuaRE and NCSA about what could be done to address this would be very much appreciated. (Log here: https://ci.lsst.codes/job/release/job/run-rebuild/36/console)
Image metadata so far only loaded for coadds ("atlas images" in WISE-speak). Unclear which of many other available tables from the WISE sub-missions should be loaded into PDAC. IPAC folks will provide some specific recommendations.
Technological issue with Qserv in doing joins across multiple databases. Exposed by trying to load the AllWISE "Reject Table". Also relevant to doing joins across SDSS, WISE or across LSST, Gaia in Qserv. John Gates working on this. Database group does expect to support multiple databases with different director tables as long as they have the same spatial sharding definition.
Wil O'Mullane expects to make a statement of direction for PDAC in the next few days, which will require us to firm up the PDAC road map for this year and beyond. I will start using part of each of these meetings to work on that.