Fermitools Roadmap

This is a draft of what we are planning for the future of the Fermitools. It is currently just a rough draft of ideas.

Releases

I imagine that the releases in the list below would happen somewhat quarterly. There would likely be patch releases for bug fixes between the major items.

• 2018 Q3 Fermitools release 1.0.0
  • Initial release
  • Switch to Conda for distribution.
• 2019 Q1 Patch release
  • Fixed problem with gtsrcmaps not working Likelihood #10
  • Other likelihood fixes by Eric.
• 2019 Q2 Feature Release
  • Improve handling of energy dispersion LK-141
  • Added gtdrm to write energy dispersion matrix LK-143
  • other enhancements or bug fixes for this release?
  • Lower cftisio version number to remove warning that confuses users?
• 2019 Q3 Conda 5 changeover
  • Change to use Conda 5.
  • What will be required?
• 2019 Q4 Python 3 transition
  • Many packages used by the Tools are dropping support for Python 2 before 2020, e.g., Numpy will not be adding new features to Python 2 version starting on January 1, 2019 but will provide bug fixes for Python 2 until December 31, 2019.
  • Maybe iterate major version number to 2.0.0.

Long term changes

• Increase build modularity
  • What is our justification for this? What are the goals?
  • How are we going to do this?
• Unit test improvement
  • Separate flyweight and integration tests. Improve reporting.
  • Turn threads into python notebooks. Add to Jenkins pipeline. Will provide additional layer of testing and automatically generate products that can be put on web version.
• Alternate distribution mechanisms
  • pip, brew, apt-get, etc.
• Better fermipy integration.
  • What is required for this?
• Turn analysis threads into Jupyter notebooks. Add to Jenkins pipeline as tests.

Other tasks

• Get Jenkins pipeline working on Macs.
• Deal with unresolved JIRA issues. Group them into logical blocks and assigns to releases.
• gtorbsim improvements