TRACK: Post-construction 2 - 08/05/24

[cmarooney-stfc]

Leave:
Jacob - away teaching 16/5, Aiida hackathon end May 2 days, 1 other week
Alex - 22-24 May A:; July 15-Aug 2, AL; Jun 17-21, Jul 8-12, Student project re #896, #1611
Toby - week 1 June, 2 weeks August, detail awaits closeout date
Chris - course 22-26/7

Attendees - add Franz (added)

Bugs, crashes, Excitations and other user issues
- fix immediately
- to allow for this, all durations for planned items below are doubled
- we will revisit as time goes on to see how effective that is
- timed items start 13/05/24

1. Alex in progress

   a. Documentation on switching projections #1637 - PR 1648 nearly finished, moved to JW, nearly finished

2. Alex planned items

   a. Horace-4 documentation refers for alignment syntax used by Horace-3  #1671 documentation: alignment description wrong - 6d - end 21/05/24 - Alex adds ticket
   b. scales for ortholinear projections #1670 scales on non-linear projections - 6d - end 29/5/24
   c. EPIC: validation of the algorithm for calculating different lattice intersections #1639 - 4w - end 28/6/24
   d. H4UX: update_file_format is not very user friendly #1498 - 6d - end 6/7/24
   e. modify Experiment to realign legacy aligned IX_experiment #1616 - needs discussion but time fixed - 6d - end 14/7/24
   f. student project - 17-21/6/24, 8-12/7/24 - Enable full mexing options in cut #896, Possible solutions for slow IDAaaS I/O #1611

3. Alex discussion items

   a. Bunch of issues, identified while replicating numerous nxspe files in parallel. #1630 item 1; fix unknown
   b. Possible solutions for slow IDAaaS I/O #1611 , keep open, cannot find solution before closeout
   c. see 2e.
   d. current resolution convolution and resolution plots are consistent with ortho_proj only #1040 - marked for after closeout but requiring >1 month (calendar) so marking for discussion now. Probably post closeout

4. Jacob in progress

   a. Guide on converting Horace 3 -> 4 #1632 - PR 1642
   b. User Request: Condense parallel warnings #1609 - PRs Dump parallel failure to log unless "debug" is "true" #1645 (dump to log non-debug), Add warnonce function to trigger a warning only once #1647 (warnonce)
   c. Spglib request to Fan

5. Jacob plan

   a. Standardise deprecating warning syntax - Standardise deprecation warnings #1643 - by 08/5/24
   b. PACE-Integration CI not working #1655 PACE Integration CI fix - ESTIMATE AVAILABLE by by 08/5/24
   c. Talk to Duc about SpinW interoperability - DISCUSSION CONCLUDED by 08/5/24
   d. Talk to Ross about (i) docs (ii) config needs (iii) User Request: Ability to dump and load configs #1606 - DISCUSSION CONCLUDED by 08/5/24
   e. User Request: Better automated configurations #1608 - by 03/7/24
   f. User Request: Improved docs on configuration #1607 - by 17/7/24

6. Chris/Toby (detectors)

   a. Settings for detector type parameters #1338 detector data input - Toby receiving data from Duc, Chris to complete insertion into Tobyfit via detectors

7. Chris (hashing)

• Putting object hashes back into save/load requires special treatment #1636 (a) prescribe hashing algorithm across platforms [IN PROGRESS]; (b) save/load hashes - platform independent via reduced significant figures

9. Recent tickets

• User report: cut_sqw does not work with sym #1657 USER BUG - jw
• upgrade_file_format incorrectly uses -upgrade_range option. #1656 - ab - said to be inconvient to users
• Out-of-memory error crashing DAaaS #1654 user report - USER BUG

10, Items this meeting

• distinguish H3 and H4 SQWs Test for whether sqw file is Horace3/4 format #1672 (refs for PR and older ticket inside)
• help Radu migrate - plan strategy next week - arrange meeting (arranged for 15/5)