Hsin-Fang Chiang: do you mind doing this small review? Once this is in place, you can try using jointcal in the HSC weeklies with the default config, which should be a useful starting point.

Note that I'm going hiking for a few days, so will be out of touch until roughly August 29th.

Can you try to set up jointcal to run in the next HSC weekly, or do a trial run of it, with this ticket, to see how it does, please?

I just noticed that testdata_jointcal is not part of lsst_distrib nor part of lsst_ci. Many tests in jointcal are skipped without testdata_jointcal. Do you know whether jointcal are built and tested fully somewhere in the DM team's Jenkins CI system?

testdata_jointcal gets pulled into lsst_distrib by jointcal. It's specifically listed in a "do not install" list for the binaries along with all the other testdata, validation_data, and afwdata repositories, because they're so large. When you run jenkins, it runs with testdata_jointcal.

Great it's pulled in and tested! And that explains why testdata is not in the shared stack..

The changes look fine to me. If you are not gone for hiking yet, feel free to merge it, so they get included in the next weekly (w_2018_34). I didn't test processing HSC data manually with the ticket branch, but if it's included in w_2018_34 I will start including it in the regular biweekly reprocessing next week.

Thanks for the quick review: you got it in just before I left.

Merged and done.