Special NAUG - 2007-Feb-14

Progress/Status

• Review old issues (need to combine these): https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/Software/AlphaIssues
• Review test issues (spreadsheet): http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p9Q-V26qhzpmEtAF5AD4gOg

Status

• Release Notes
  • Release Notes link
  • New Interface Features:
    • taskname.last files now contain a one line task invocation call (for scripting)
    • default (TTFKAR) task to set a task's parameters to the default values
    • casapy --nolog startup option to send all logging to the command terminal
      • use casalogger() to call up the GUI logger if needed.
  • News
    • Shannon Jaeger in town (x-y plotting facilities)
    • locate
    • numpy use has improved the memory utilization (avoids the Python memory leak)
    • Testing daily in CV!
    • Heuristics test
• Test
  • Test page updated
  • Regression page coming (18 scripts;13 done+2 tool-based)
  • Issues
    • Mosaic scaling

• Issues list (below) - Mark prioritizing
• Documentation:
  • Cookbook: (Mark and Gustaaf for Test)
  • In-line help (Ed)
    • We talked about providing checkin access to the repository but this doesn't really solve the issue. Instead we propose the following: Any NAUG member can get the task file and do the following:

cp /home/ballista/casa/daily/code/xmlcasa/scripts/taskname.py .
vi/emacs it to alter the help
casapy
CASA <1>: from taskname import *    # This will allow you to do view changes to the help
help taskname                       # Will show the new help

CASA 2007 Calendar

• Steve Myers is here until the end of February.
• Crystal Brogan is here until Feb 9; Rob Reid is here until Feb 16.
• ALMA TST5 Pre-testing starts Feb 12
• Shannon Jaeger (U Calgary) will be here the week of the 12th to work on plotxy issues

User Support - current week

• • Gustaaf:
    • - seg fault if give bad field in plotxy
    • - fluxscale information Open issue of logging output not easy to filter.
    • - fluxscale should set the flux in the SU table
    • - clarification of flagxy diskwrite parameter
    • - Need unset flags in flagxy
    • - want to expend scope of flags
  • Mark
    • - need time averaging in plotxy/flagxy
    • - asap/matplotlib issues
  • Ed:
    • - fluxscale/accum bug(still in progress)
    • - can't protect names of tasks Python-baby!
    • - ft needs more selection facilities (spectral window)
    • - logger performanceStarts a new file for each session.
    • - clarification on antenna based flagging
    • - log mouse copying (not precise enough)
    • - exportuvfits improvements
  • David:
    • - importvla bandname issue
    • - importvla needs source specification
    • - flagdata - fieldid not working
    • - memory issues for modest data sets (6.2 GB)
  • Debra:
    • plotxy/flagging report
    • ASAP interface

• data selection -
  • Need to modify min match to wild carding
  • replace msselect parameter
  • fieldid/field to field which handles both

New functionality

• Key areas:
• Look at spreadsheet - verify 'resolved' issues
• Try out regression scripts at: https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/Software/LegacyCASA
• Write regression script?