The software week goal is to facilitate communication and collaboration between everyone as we move forward extended support for Fermi. FSSC members will be available at SLAC all week for group discussions and one-on-one meetings. In addition to targeted topics, we encourage attendees with broad or cross-cutting interests to join the various discussions. There will be plenty of work, so we'll need everyone to take part in this transition.
Previous Software Weeks: Winter 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2017, Winter 2018
Dates: March 2, 2020 - March 5, 2020
Live notes link
Location: Two conference rooms in B53 at SLAC have been reserved for each day.
- 3/2 - Almanor (Rm. 3002) & Havasu (Rm. 3004)
- 3/3 - Tulara Tulare (Rm. 4006) & Toluca (Rm. 4002)
- 3/4 - Tulara Tulare (Rm. 4006) & Toluca (Rm. 4002)
- 3/5 - Tulara Tulare (Rm. 4006) & Almanor (Rm. 3002)
- 3/6 - Almanor (Rm. 3002) & Havasu (Rm. 3004)
Slack: The #softwareweek channel is available for discussion.
Remote access: Coming soon
Attendees
We've narrowed the possible weeks to late February and early March 2020 at SLAC. If you are interested in attending, please use the table below to indicate which of the weeks works for you, and we'll try to pick the week that works best for the most people. If you can't attend in person, hopefully we can work out remote attendance.
Name | Week of Feb 17 | Week of Feb 24 | Week of March 2 | Week of March 9 | Comments |
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Liz Hayes | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
Don Horner | Y | Y | Y | Y | Joe says Happy Birthday Tom! |
Alex Reustle | If needed | Y | Y | Y | Happy Birthday Tom! |
Joe Asercion | Y | N | If needed | Y | Will be in Denver 2/27-3/1. Could fly from Denver to San Jose on 3/2 though (but I'd prefer not to) |
Tom Stephens | Y | Y | Y | Y | Feb 17th is President's Day (and the 19th is my birthday ) |
Nicola Omodei | After the 18th | Y | Y | Y | |
Tom Glanzman | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
Richard Dubois | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
Brian Van Klaveren | Y | Y | Y | Y | Later is possibly better. |
Toby Burnett | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
Eric Charles | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
Steve Tether | N | N | Y | Y | |
Heather Kelly | | | | | will attend remotely |
Judy Racusin | | | Y | | |
Main room; backup room
Attendees
- Liz Hays (arrive Monday ~noon)
- Don Horner
- Alex Reustle
- Joe Asercion
- Tom Stephens
- Nicola Omodei
- Tom Glanzman
- Richard Dubois (not Tuesday AM; not Wed PM - so far)
- Brian Van Klaveren
- Toby Burnett
- Eric Charles
- Steve Tether
- Heather Kelly (remote)
- Judy Racusin
- Rob Cameron (Monday only)
Schedule and Agenda
All times Pacific Standard.
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Time | Almanor (B53, Room 3002) | Havasu (B53, Room 3004) |
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9am-9:30am | Kickoff (PDF)
- Discussion of goals and objectives
- Review accomplishments of previous software weeks.
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9:30am-11am | Current status updates (PDF)
- Fermitools
- Overview of current development and build process
- Upcoming releases
- Python 3 transition
- Break
- SLAC
- FT2 reprocessing & IGRF model update
- Batch farm
- Jenkins
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11am-noon | Current and Future Staffing (PDF)
Who is even there anymore and what is their availability? - Identify areas of shortfall.
- Identify people who can take over SLAC infrastructure and Fermitools/Fermipy tasks if current person leaves.
Difficulty for FSSC personnel to take over on infrastructure that we don't use regularly. How much can we rely on collaboration people? Where can external folk inject the most help? Can we create a list of who to contact for various issues?
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noon-2pm | Lunch | |
2pm-3pm | Fermitools future directions discussion - What development needs to be done. What's missing from the tools.
- Discuss and work on improving interface between Fermitools and Fermipy.
- Modularizing the Fermtiools?
- Effectively freeze the tools?
- Using other package managers?
- Who will be in charge of which packages, e.g., gtorbsim
- What does the C&A group need that isn’t being provided by the FSSC (and vice-versa)
- Switch to CMake instead of SCons?
- Support for RHEL6 and older Linux systems.
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3pm-4pm | Halfpipe & L1 pipeline future Go through current documentation to update (and remove old information). Get together to discuss and write document pipeline how-tos and fixes. Update re-piping documentation. Document database schema. Dealing with missing datagrams - Causes, handling, what to do if repiping fails? Data lifecycle from an ISOC perspective - where does the data go?
- what do the processing steps do?
- how does this interact with the infrastructure?
Data reprocessing documentation FT2 reprocessing & IGRF model update. Installing new pipeline.
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Tuesday (2020-03-03)
Time | Tulara (B53, Room 4006) | Toluca (B53, Room 4002) | 9am-10am | Other SLAC infrastructure issues | |
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Tuesday (2020-03-03)
Time | Tulare (B53, Room 4006) | Toluca (B53, Room 4002) |
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9am-10am-11am | Fermitools code development (PDF)(MP4)
- How to contribute to the Fermitools
- Go over the process of using the new development paradigm
- How to use Github, submit patches, etc
- How to update, build locally etc.
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10am-11am | Fermitools Azure pipeline (MP4) - Maintenance and development
- Training on design/development of the Azure pipeline
- Joe will go in depth about how pipeline functions as Azure and how config file functions.
SLAC move to CentOS.Create the containers and move pipeline to containers to run on Centos7.Do the process together and test.What else is affected? Archiver? (Doesn't work on CentOS 7. See Archiver vs. CentOS 7.)Fastcopy?ASP? | |
11am-noon | Fermitools documentation - Documentation status
- Missing fhelp files
- What is out of date?
- What is needed? New threads? Who will do them?
- Using Jupyter notebooks
- Work together on documentation?
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noon-2pm | Lunch | |
2pm-3pm | Fermitools code development
- Go over the process of using the new development paradigm
- How to use Github, submit patches, etc
- How to update, build locally etc.
| | 4pm | Halfpipe & L1 pipeline future FT2 reprocessing & IGRF model update. Installing new pipeline. Document how to do FT2 reprocessing. Go through current documentation to update (and remove old information). Get together to discuss and write document pipeline how-tos and fixes. Update re-piping documentation. Document database schema. Dealing with missing datagrams - Causes, handling, what to do if repiping fails? Data lifecycle from an ISOC perspective - where does the data go?
- what do the processing steps do?
- how does this interact with the infrastructure?
Data reprocessing documentation Nicola knows about FT1 reprocessing. Are the steps documented?
| 3pm-4pm | Fermitools Azure pipeline Maintenance and developmentTraining on design/development of the Azure pipeline Joe will go in depth about how pipeline functions as Azure and how config file functions. | |
Wednesday (2020-03-04)
Time | Tulara Tulare (B53, Room 4006) | Toluca (B53, Room 4002) |
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9am-10am | Fermitools testing- How to get the tools tested before release. C&A group role?
- Improving unit tests.
- Turn analysis thread Jupyter notebooks into scripts that can be run automatically
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10am-11am | Fermitools user support and tracking tasks - Where to report issues JIRA vs. Github
- github tracker and helpdesk staffing, response times etc.
- Ways to improve the process
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11am-noon | SLAC move to CentOS.- Create the containers and move pipeline to containers to run on Centos7.
- Do the process together and test.
- What else is affected?
Pointlike How long will Toby support it? What should we do after that | |
noon-2pm | Lunch | |
2pm-3pmGLASTRelease and Jenkins Heather, Brian, Alex, Joe, Joanne? Make sure GR builds with Jenkins. Is Heather's knowledge about build and deployment documented | Adding capabilities to the FSSC data serverThe FSSC data server is being moved to new, better hardware, including NVMe SSDs. - How this will affect the data server.
- Do we want to add new capabilities? New filtering? Allow all sky searches?
Any new data products to add to the server?
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3pm-4pm | Fermitools bug fix workshop- Get together to go through and maybe fix reported Fermitools bugs/issues.
- Need Eric, Joe, Alex, Tom, Don others?
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Thursday (2020-03-05)
Time | Tulara Tulare (B53, Room 4006) | Almanor (B53, Room 3002) |
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9am-10am9:30am | Change in SLAC batch system. | |
9:30am-10am-11am | GLASTRelease and JenkinsHeather, Brian, Alex, Joe, Joanne? Make sure GR builds with Jenkins. - Is Heather's knowledge about build and deployment documented?
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10am-11am | FermipyAdding capabilities to the FSSC data server The FSSC data server is being moved to new, better hardware, including NVMe SSDs. How this will affect the data server.Do we want to add new capabilities? New filtering? Allow all sky searches?Any new data products to add to the server? | |
11am-noon | Closeout- Review decisions
- Assign action items
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noon-2pm | Lunch | |
2pm-3pm | | |
3pm-4pm | | |
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