The software week goal is to facilitate coordination between 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: Fall 2017, Winter 2017, Winter 2018
Dates: February 17-21, 2020?
Location: SLAC:
Remote access: using Zoom - Havasu: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/614104244 Almanor: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/497566243
Possible Agenda Items
- Move to containers.
- Tom, Brian, Joanne(?), Heather(?)
- Create the containers and move pipeline to containers to run on Centos7.
- Do the process together and test.
- Change in batch system
- Have Tom, Brian and ?
- Work on moving to the new batch system.
- Have Tom develop contacts with infrastructure staff.
- Halfpipe & L1 pipeline documentation
- Tom, Michael, and Maria Elena, others?
- Go through current documentation to update (and remove old information).
- Get together to discuss and write document pipeline how-tos and fixes.
- Repiping documentation.
- Document database schema
- GLASTRelease and Jenkins
- Heather, Alex, Joe
- Make sure GR builds with Jenkins.
- How to deploy?
- Reprocessing documentation
- Tom, Maria Elena, Nicola
- Nicola knows about FT1 reprocessing. Are the steps documented?
- Document how to do FT2 reprocessing.
- Fermitools maintenance
- Package ownership (e.g., who to contact about gtobssim).
- How to use Github and Azure pipeline
- Fermitools/Fermipy interface
- Alex, Joe, Mattia, ?
- Discuss and work on improving interface between Fermitools and Fermipy.
- Modularizing the Fermtiools?
- Fermitools testing
- C&A group role?
- Staffing
- Who is even there anymore and what is their availability?
- It's hard 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 infrastructure issue?
- Have a "how to collaborate" talk?
Other possible topics
- Data catalog
- Is Brian the only one who knows how to deal with it?
- Pointlike
- How long with Toby support it?
- ASP
- Is Jim doing anything anymore? Is anyone?
- Adding capabilities to the FSSC data server
- New filtering
- New data sets
- Electron or cosmic ray data
- Catalog-like dataset
- Merit files
- Monte Carlo datasets, for generating new event classes
- Ask Users Group?
- Other infrastructure
- Paging
- Spread messaging system