Please use the table below to nominate “technical debt” or longstanding issues which you feel should be prioritised during the F18 development cycle.

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DescriptionRelevant Jira TicketsNominated By
flux->instFlux

Replace Calib with PhotoCalib

Fix sigma/err

Add TAN-SIP fitter to afw and SkyWcs

Russell Owen
Fix bool array handling in PropertySet

Russell Owen
bin/genCameraRepository.py broken in obs_cfht & obs_sdss

Russell Owen
Get rid of all use of astrometry.net in all unit tests except in meas_extensions_astrometry_net
Russell Owen
Stop using astrometry.net by default

Russell Owen
Use MatchPessimisticB by default, after proving its performance is adequate
Russell Owen
ndarray sometimes fails to build

Russell Owen
Modernize pybind11 wrappers for loading speed and fewer circular import issues
Russell Owen
With pybind11 it is easy to make statisticsControl fail badly

Russell Owen
Switch ndarray from a tarball to checked out source

Russell Owen
Change RADECSYS to RADESYS

Russell Owen
DateTime mishandles leap seconds

Russell Owen
Test that measurement plugins get aperture-corrected fluxes

Russell Owen
making PSF candidates should be simpler (this may be obsolete, especially if the code is now in one task; if so, close it)

Russell Owen

SourceDetectionTask can corrupt the image

Russell Owen
Get rid of the pex_policy package
Russell Owen

Change method names in all our tasks and parseAndRun → parseAndRunDataRef

Yusra AlSayyad (not sure I'm nominating it, but don't want to forget it)

Fix shbang lines to use python not python2

Russell Owen
Python 3 gives different numerical answers to Python 2

John Swinbank
Modernize use of ndarray in pybind11 wrappers

Russell Owen
Either fix example scripts in examples/ directories or remove them all together. Broken/outdated examples are potentially dangerous (to newcomers in particular).
Lauren MacArthur