DM Weekly Highlights 2016-09-07 to 2016-09-13

[timj (Tim Jenness)]

Accomplishments

• New Python 3 ports: ip_isr (DM-7296), skymap (DM-7246), obs_monocam (DM-7391), FireflyClient (DM-7326), ngmix (DM-7327), meas_extensions_ngmix (DM-7325), pipe_supertask (DM-7425).
• The API for DateTime has changed slightly. (DM-7587)

Documentation

• Notes on existing alert systems and VOEvents by @mtpatter. (DM-7431)
• Developer guide updates:
  • Blank lines around docstrings. (DM-7539)
  • Updating third party packages.

Presentations

• Let’s Talk About Docs by @jsick.
• LSST Data Management Software Development by @timj.

RFC Activity

• RFC-221: : PROPOSED Request approval of the SUIT Vision document as LDM-492.
• RFC-219: IMPLEMENTED Add support to daf::base::DateTime for TAI strings.
• RFC-218: IMPLEMENTED Change Python docstring before/after blank space guidelines for consistency with PEP 257.
• RFC-217: PROPOSED Improve support for ExposureInfo in Exposure.
• RFC-144: ADOPTED Add OpenOrb as a third party package for SIMS.
• RFC-108: IMPLEMENTED Make --show config=glob case insensitive.
• RFC-84 (RFD): IMPLEMENTED Is anything slowing you down?
• RFC-79: IMPLEMENTED Third-party Packages for MPI.
• RFC-60: IMPLEMENTED Support Python 3 and Python 2.7 simultaneously.

Other Items

• newinstall.sh now has the option to install a Python 3 stack. Use the -3 option.
• A new (temporary) metapackage named lsst_py3 has been created allowing all Python 3-compatible packages to be installed with one command. (DM-7586)
• Three command line tasks were adapted to the supertask framework as a demonstration. (DM-6744)

[pschella (Pim Schellart)]

And ndarray is now an external package.