Reports until 16:40, Monday 17 September 2018
H1 CDS
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:40, Monday 17 September 2018 - last comment - 09:48, Wednesday 19 September 2018(44030)
Foton File Header Flips and Notation Problems
J. Kissel, D. Barker

We've been periodically finding front-end modules that show differences when no one reports making changes. Upon looking at the diff provided by the RCG system (an awesome newish feature) between the loaded file, and the *to be* loaded file, there are TONs of differences. Upon close inspection, however, those changes are entirely superficial -- the header of the file where all filter banks in the model are recorded (in "some" order) has been flipped or re-ordered, and/or (sometimes both, sometimes one or the other) the coefficient notation has switched from engineering/decimal notation to scientific notation. 

I'll open an FRS ticket about this, but at this point we don't have a smoking gun as to who what where when or why this happens, we (Dave and I) just have seen it enough that it has become a "usual" problem in our parlance. Usually because it relies on Dave dilligently (but still only occasionally) browsing through the CDS overview screen before a pending computer change, and comes to me asking me to figure it out and resolve it. So it can be up to "many days" from when someone may have altered the filter file with some program, and when we notice it.
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jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - 09:48, Wednesday 19 September 2018 (44060)
Created corresponding FRS Ticket 11481.