Updates for April 18

[bfhealy]

Pull requests

• WIP: add support for XGBoost inferencing #337
• Set ZTF DR16 as default sources catalog #338
• Add execute permissions to scripts #342
• Add option to scale min period/max frequency for period finding #346
• Speed up scope.py test by scaling min period #348

Issues

• Test currently failing due to melman catalog maintenance #335
• Add per-class hyperparameter optimization #339
• ZTF_sources_20230309 catalog not yet complete #340
• Modify period-finding approach to obtain more reliable periods #341
• Windows installation issues #343
• Pin more dependency versions #344
• macOS installation issues #345
• Python 3.11 install issues #347

Going forward

We will continue to develop code around the new XGBoost algorithm, refine period-finding techniques as a new catalog is ingested for feature generation, and begin migrating scope features to cesium.