Core Minutes 11 March 2014

Core Minutes 3/11/2014

Present: Joe Asercion, Joanne Bogart, Jim Chiang, Richard Dubois, Warren Focke, Tom Glanzman, Heather Kelly, David Landriu, Leon Rochester, Tom Stephens, Tracy Usher

ScienceTools: (Jim) No new items in Development Notes. FSSC requested a new ST release tag. He has started promoting various packages to ST HEAD. The release should be ready by the end of the week.
Reprocessing: (Tom G.) The FT1 rebuild is done through the end of February. He's waiting for the powers that be to decide upon a transition date (probably late March/early April).

Warren is preparing to send the FT2SECONDS files to FSSC for the first time (FT2SECONDS reports spacecraft location and orientation every second rather than every 30 seconds).
Oracle Servers: (Richard) During an outage last Tuesday admins discovered a small amount of data corruption on the main server (Oracle03) so swapped it with the back-up, Oracle04. Subsequently there was a multi-disk meltdown on 03. We are currently running with no back-up, but 03 has been rebuilt (supposedly finished last night; we're awaiting confirmation). more servers have been retired. Only two remain: glastlnx07 and glastlnx20.
Core talk:
- GR (Heather) GR 20-09-08 has been released. It has all requested tags plus a new Ruby external, enabling Fred to run again on Linux.
  
  (Leon, Heather) Work on better job handling for overlays is in progress. Since most users don't want or need to enable overlays, disabled should be the default. And if the enabling isn't done properly there should be a helpful error message rather than an inarticulate crash.
- WIRED (Leon) It now works on Linux stand-alone. We need to make sure it runs from Gleam on both Linux and Windows.
- Mountain Lion (Tom S.) On Friday Tony set up a Jenkins queue. Only two small bits need to be completed before RM is started up:
  - Small mods to RM to submit to the new queue
  - Add mechanism to move Mac externals (tarballs) to the central file server so they can be distributed
  He expects to complete both of these today. There are still many compile errors. It appears they're attributable to the newer, stricter compiler.

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