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  1. Data Management
  2. DM-6350

Generate camera description at build time

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      Alert Production F16 - 8, Alert Production F16 - 9, Alert Production F16 - 10
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      Camera geometry used to be defined using PAF (policy) files, which are now deprecated. As part of the transition to the refactored camera geometry scheme, scripts were introduced to convert from the PAF files to the new camera geometry configuration scheme which uses FITS files and a python file to describe the camera. These scripts are still part of the obs_* packages, and some people rely on them for making changes to the camera description. On the other hand, the generated FITS files and python file are also first-class members of the obs_* packages. This means that we have two sources of the same information, which is dangerous.

      For obs_lsstSim, obs_decam, obs_cfht and obs_sdss, we want these scripts to be the primary source of information. This means we should delete the generated files, and create them at build time. We should also standardise the name of the script used to generate these.

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            price Paul Price added a comment -

            Building the camera description for LSST requires a GainFile and phosimVersion. The latter appears to be just some string, but the GainFile is real content, but not present in obs_lsstSim.

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            price Paul Price added a comment - Building the camera description for LSST requires a GainFile and phosimVersion . The latter appears to be just some string, but the GainFile is real content, but not present in obs_lsstSim.
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            swinbank John Swinbank added a comment -

            John Parejko, can you confirm you're working on this? If so, we'll need to move it to an appropriate epic in 02C.03.

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            swinbank John Swinbank added a comment - John Parejko , can you confirm you're working on this? If so, we'll need to move it to an appropriate epic in 02C.03.
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            Parejkoj John Parejko added a comment -

            Yes, I'm just starting this (and its sibling, DM-6349).

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            Parejkoj John Parejko added a comment - Yes, I'm just starting this (and its sibling, DM-6349 ).
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            swinbank John Swinbank added a comment -

            Thanks. Switching team to AP and epic to DM-5691, which looks plausible — John Parejko or Simon Krughoff, please feel free to refile as you see fit.

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            swinbank John Swinbank added a comment - Thanks. Switching team to AP and epic to DM-5691 , which looks plausible — John Parejko or Simon Krughoff , please feel free to refile as you see fit.
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            krughoff Simon Krughoff added a comment -

            Good enough. Sorry for not switching it before.

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            krughoff Simon Krughoff added a comment - Good enough. Sorry for not switching it before.
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            swinbank John Swinbank added a comment -

            I think this is pretty obsolete now — see also comments on DM-6349 — so I'm closing as won't fix.

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            swinbank John Swinbank added a comment - I think this is pretty obsolete now — see also comments on DM-6349 — so I'm closing as won't fix.

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              Parejkoj John Parejko
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              price Paul Price
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              John Parejko, John Swinbank, Paul Price, Simon Krughoff
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