Beta Plan (draft 4 April 2007)

Beta

Schedule                                        External Schedule Issues

April 15: Patch available for distribution
                                                April 27: End SD FBT
                                                May    1: ATF support
                                                May 17-18: NRAO User Committee Meeting (CV)
                                                May   21: ALMA CDR5 (Documents due May 1st)
                                                June 12-15: ALMA Leads Mtg (AOC)
June  15: Patch 1
June  16: Moderate testing by NAUG, NAASC
                                                June 18-21: NRAO 50th
                                                June 22-24: ALMA Disks meeting
July   9: ESO Tutorials?
Aug   15: Patch 2; Initial freeze
Aug   15; Thorough testing by NAUG, NAASC
-Sep  07: bug fixing/polishing
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-Sep  15: Decision on what is in the beta
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-Sep  21: distribution builds and testing/documentation
Sept  30: Tentative beta release date

Beta Release

Scientific Scope:

• Data:
  • VLA (>1.3 GHz (except Lband A-config)
  • UVFITS (other telescopes if little additional tinkering required)
  • ASDM (Mainly PdB)
• Modes:
  • Basic single field interferometry
  • Basic mosaics

Beta Patch 1 -- June 15

• Coordinated activities
  • Crashes
    • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics imager (infinite loop when dirty beam is poorly defined)
    • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics imager (corrupted history table)
    • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics split task
    • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics flagdata task
    • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics flagxy when no data to plot
    • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics plotxy when no MS
  • MS Selection
    • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics ms tool is not compliant
    • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics invert, clean, mosaic are not fully compliant
    • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics uvcontsub
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics parameter handling (expand/contract)
• Image Analysis
  • puthead,gethead tasks
  • regrid image task (expand)
  • imagemaths task
• Imaging
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics masks for cleaning
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics interactive clean implementation
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics a few missing important parameters in task clean
• XY Plotting
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics locate function
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics extend scope of channel averaged
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics extend scope of time averaged flags
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics labelling
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics improvements in plotting speed, memory usage (change in backend?)
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics flag versions support flagmanager task
• Calibration
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics solution snr threshold and reporting of value
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics calplot updates (e.g., examine spline solutions)
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics (simple) frequency scaling of calibrater models
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics cal table lister (uses data selection)
• Display
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics support for other color maps
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics polygon stats
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics support for beam ellipses (moved from Patch 2)
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics profile improvements (for integrated flux region)

Beta Patch 2 -- August 15

• Coordinated
  • Logging/tool messages
    • add missing information (NAUG will review and comment)
    • cull tool log information (NAUG will review and comment)
    • printlevel to logging (long-term solution)
  • Error handling
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics (PARTIAL) table locking/table still in cache
• Image Analysis
  • fitting components in the image plane
• Imaging
  • imaging big cubes (FTMachine enable by plane; > 1024x1024x256 too big)
  • more flexibility for imaging RR, LL, Q, U, V only
• Flagging/Editing
  • flag tool
    • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics manual flagging
    • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics statistical flagging
    • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics includes unflag data/flag versions
• Display
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics black/white background selection (at least)
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics color bars
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics integrated (rectangle, polygon) profiles
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics multi-image tracking (moved from Patch 2)
  • improve print output (incl. postscript)
• MS
  • toggle add corrected, model, weight columns with import
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics toggle fill autocorrelations for vla
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics update E/VLA antenna names

• Added Value
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics async tasks
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics Mac PPC distribution
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics Fedora distribution/support
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics 64-bit Linux distribution/support

NAUG Activity

• • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics Documentation: Cookbook/in-line/annotated scripts, tool URM/inline
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics unify task and parameter names
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics (PARTIAL) logging level guidelines/checklist
  • Error: (1) can't find choice-yes.gif at TWiki.TWikiDocGraphics (PARTIAL) build FITS image/UVFITS library

• • Testing, testing, testing
  • Focused testing June 16+, August 16+