LSST Data Management’s
New Year’s resolution for 2016:
Write the Docs.
Jonathan Sick
Software Dev
LSST DM, SQuaRE
@jonathansick
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LSST DM is building
a software stack to handle
the largest imaging survey,
ever.
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Level 1 Alert Production
10 million events, every night
Every 60 seconds
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Level 2 Data Release
37 billion objects (15 petabytes of tables)
5.5 million images (500 petabytes)
after ten years.
Every year
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Level 2.5 User Processing
Your measurement code.
Run on the LSST processing queue.
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Level 3 Science Interfaces
Tools for doing science with LSST data.
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The Software Stack
is a key legacy of LSST.
We are designing the LSST Stack to
process any image dataset,
from any telescope.
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1. We are creating a new ‘usability czar’ role.
2. We are re-booting how we make docs;
building a ‘culture of docs.’
Developing for usability.
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community.lsst.org
A discussion
forum for
anyone building
or using
LSST software
and data.
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Technical Note Series
Technotes are a way for us to record
& publish the by-products of LSST
software research and development.
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Technical Note Series
Native to the web.
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Technical Note Series
Streamlined publishing.
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readthedocs.org
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Technical Note Series
Citeable.
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Software Documentation
User guides.
Tutorials & example projects.
API Programming References.
Machine-tested, continuously published.
We are building a culture of docs
at Data Management.
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2016: The Year of LSST DM Docs.
1. community.lsst.org discussion forum
2. Data Management Technotes
3. All-new software documentation platform
Sign up now!
LSST DM’s knowledge; on the web, citeable.
Coming soon.