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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.
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Monday (2020-03-02)
| Time | Almanor (B53, Room 3002) | Havasu (B53, Room 3004) |
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| 9am-9:30am | Kickoff- Discussion of goals and objectives
- Review accomplishments of previous software weeks.
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| 9:30am-11am | Current status updates- 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 StaffingWho 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) |
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| 9am-10am | Other SLAC infrastructure issues | |
| 10am-11am | 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?
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| 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.
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| 3pm-4pm | Fermitools Azure pipeline - 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.
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Wednesday (2020-03-04)
| Time | Tulara (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 | |
| 11am-noon | Pointlike - How long will Toby support it? What should we do after that?
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| noon-2pm | Lunch | |
| 2pm-3pm | 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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| 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 (B53, Room 4006) | Almanor (B53, Room 3002)Almanor |
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| 9am-10am | Change in SLAC batch system. | |
| 10am-11am | 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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| 11am-noon | Closeout- Review decisions
- Assign action items
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| noon-2pm | Lunch | |
| 2pm-3pm | | |
| 3pm-4pm | | |
Friday (2020-03-06)
| Time | Almanor (B53, Room 3002) | Havasu (B53, Room 3004) |
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| 9am-10am | | |
| 10am-11am | | |
| 11am-noon | | |
| noon-1pm | Lunch | |
| 1pm-2pm | | |
| 2pm-3pm | | |
| 3pm-4pm | | |
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