Lasair Cycle-7 October'22 to March'23

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As taken from Cycle 7 plan wiki page

Main Goals for this Cycle

1. Complete remaining C6 activities as required
2. Continuing system hardening, resilience, distributed intelligence
3. Complete full functionality design and implement
4. Launch a successful Lasair 5.0

Activities this cycle

• Web design and refresh (goal 4, @thespacedoctor ) - see Review and refresh website design #254 below
  • Requires formal testing (need test plans and volunteer testers)
    • @RoyWilliams will create test plans, @smarttgit has identified testers
    • issues identified to be submitted as Zen/Github tickets
  • Documentation and tutorials
  • Structure: for who, what media, faq, reference, search
  • Documentation Hackathon day ( @thespacedoctor ) TBD
• Comprehensive testing system for Lasair (goal 2, @gpfrancis ) - see Comprehensive testing system for Lasair  #277 below
  • Testing Hackathon 15/NOV/22 (Ken, Roy, Gareth - Roy's office)
• Scaling and profiling experiments (goal 3, @RoyWilliams @gpfrancis @genghisken @thespacedoctor ) - see Scaling and profiling experiments #258 below
  • Trans atlantic link (blocked)
  • Maximising the pipeline throughput and the web/api response
• PET features (Possible Explosive Transient) (goal 4, @RoyWilliams ) - see PET features (Possible Explosive Transient) #278 below
  • estimate rise rate and decline rate
• Build system for LSST simstream (goal 4, @genghisken and @RoyWilliams ) - see Build system for LSST simstream #279 below
  • code analysis and build prototype for overlap of ZTF and LSST codes
• Resilience
  • separate web server at RAL indicating status (@gpfrancis) : see https://lasair-status.lsst.ac.uk/
  • ingest/filter modules tidied (@RoyWilliams)