Proposed Alpha Release Components/Content
Operating Systems supported: RHE4, OSX (PowerPC, Intel) [32 bit]
Distribution: rpm/darwinports based; includes casa, qtviewer, asap
Functionality
- Available tools
- ms (WY) [Working: , Fail: , Not Implemented: ]
- tables (WY) [Working: 43, Fail: 22, Not Implemented: 6]
- tablebrowser (WY) *
- autoflag (WY) [Working: , Fail: , Not Implemented: ]
- calibrater (RR) [Working: , Fail: , Not Implemented: ]
- imager (WY) [Working: 28, Fail: 6, Not Implemented: 4, Untested: 8]
- msplot (SJ) [Working: , Fail: , Not Implemented: ]
- calplot (JM,KG) [Working: , Fail: , Not Implemented: ]
- tableplot (UV) [Working: , Fail: , Not Implemented: ]
- image (RR) [Working: , Fail: , Not Implemented: ]
- coordsys (RR) [Working: , Fail: , Not Implemented: ]
- simulator (KG) [Working: , Fail: , Not Implemented: ]
- asap (TT) *
- quanta (BW) [Working: , Fail: , Not Implemented: ]
- measures (RR) [Working: , Fail: , Not Implemented: ]
- fitting (WY)
- functionals (SJ)
- componentmod (WY) [Working: , Fail: , Not Implemented: ]
- atmosphere (RR)
- qtviewer with facility for interactive statistics (rect and polygon)
- Missing: statistics regions, cursor tracking, load FITS images, resampling mode, color map choice, blink, enter frame number
Documentation
- in-line help for each method/tool (JM;NAUG)
- User Reference Manual (WY)
- Cookbook (JM); twiki-ize (JM)
User Interface (DS)
- casapy (iPython/Python)
- Session Management
- Parameter setting shell
- save, restore of parameters
- curses form for parameter setting
- Python tasks for SELECT, CLEAN and FLAG
- Type/(Range) checking
System
- XML Schema (WY)
- Document describing branches and code check-in procedures (JM/WY)
- Testing
- design document for revised assay (how to add tests) (BW)
- timetable for assay migration (JM)
- migrate ALMA/EVLA test scripts (JM)
- ALMA Integration
- modify load-casapy script to set environment variables (for multiple installations)
- test casa with ACS 5.x
- copy filler code and include in casa cvs repository (independent of ACS)
- copy telcal code and include in casa cvs repository (independent of ACS)
ALMA R4
- Filler (MC)
- support for SharedSimulator
- support for SFI
- real-time filler (questionable)
- ASDM (FV; MC; RL)
- support for SharedSimulator
- support for Holography
- support for SFI
- incorporation of measures
- adapt to revised CalDM
- update to documenation (v3 doc)
- single dish representation
- Data Capture (HH)
- support for SharedSimulator
- support for Holography
- support for SFI
- incremental archive write; improved error handling
- CASA
- CASA Audit (JM)
- msplot enhancements: (SJ, WY, JM)
- fix panel, overplot, axes issues
- unit display and selection
- add markersize to plotoptions
- add linewidth parameter to plotoptions
- need unflagdata method
- need ability to plot/highlight flagged data
- need legends
- extend plotxy to support derived quantities
- ability to plot data between different tables (e.g., AMP versus wind speed)
- data repository migration work (JM;DS;WY)
- working with daily updates
- switch to rsync (retain base, core utility, complete levels)
- migrate scripts from cvsup->cvs (measuresdata)
- repair rpm generation (DS)
- description of all (non-consortia) files (JM)
- ms: data selection implementation (SB)
- imager: full polarization imaging (SB)
- imager: Enable setting of coordinate projections (KG)
- imager: de-striping, scan normalization for SD OTF (KG)
- calibrater: solver refactor (antenna pointing calibration) (GM;SB)
- calibrater: fringe fitting enhancements (GM)
ALMA TST5
- Data sets: TBD
- Documentation
- Update to cookbook - basic processing (adapted from ASAP)
- Functionality: TBD (ACA vs ASAP requirements)
- Regression on SFI, Mosaic, SD/Synth combination, ATF
EVLA TST2
- Round trip data flow (ASDM->MS->UVFITS)
- Calibration (GM)
- Available solve calibration types
- Available apply calibration types
- Interpolation
- Smoothing
- (new) calibration of weights
- (new) pointing calibration
- (new) full polarization BPOLY, GSPLINE
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JosephMcMullin - 11 Jul 2006