DM Weekly Highlights 2016-08-31 to 2016-09-06

[timj (Tim Jenness)]

Accomplishments

• sphgeom now supports HTM and Q3C indexing. (DM-5533)
• Tasks now use the modern log system for logging. (DM-6999)
• New Python 3 ports: meas_deblender (DM-7303), meas_extensions_photometryKron (DM-7300), meas_extensions_shapeHSM (DM-7304), meas_extensions_psfex (DM-7302), and sphgeom (DM-7311).
• obs_sdss now works with pytest. (DM-7346)

Documentation

• DMTN-025: A survey of workflow management systems. (DM-6505)
• DMTN-021: Implementation of Image Difference Decorrelation. (DM-6162)
• SQR-014: Porting the LSST DM Stack to Python 3. (DM-6315)
• Updates to the DM Developer guide:
  • Python style guide is now written in terms of PEP-8. (DM-5456)
  • All DM code must now support Python 3. (DM-6317)
  • numpydoc and reStructuredText should be used for Python docstrings. (DM-7345)
• A Summary of JSDoc usage for Firefly developers. (DM-7224)
• Data Backbone Scenario: DDN WOS. (DM-6432)
• Data Backbone: Object Store Evaluation. (DM-6433)
• Logging framework transition.
• An overview of the recent changes to the Python style guide.

RFC Activity

• RFC-216: PROPOSED Use pybind11 instead of SWIG to generate Python wrappers for C++ code.
• RFC-214: IMPLEMENTED Use numpydoc and reStructuredText for Python docstrings.
• RFC-212: ADOPTED Activate junk suppression by default.
• RFC-207: IMPLEMENTED Rename Afterburner plugins to CatalogCalculation plugins.
• RFC-205: ADOPTED Disallow if False: for “block comments” in python.
• RFC-162: IMPLEMENTED LSST python coding style delta to PEP8.
• RFC-54: IMPLEMENTED update anaconda version to 2.2.0.

Other Items

• The log package was updated to allow %s to appear in logged strings. (DM-7509)
• The tests in the cat package were made five times faster.(DM-7516)
• processFile now has some tests. (DM-7433)