Monday Morning Meeting 4/22/19

• DIAL-IN NUMBERS & PASSCODES:
• IP: 192.33.117.12##8110
• Phone: (434) 817-6524

• CNGI Software Trade Study Report due this week
• CASA Newsletter going out this week
• Revised CASA Development Process work continues
  • L1/L2 Verification renamed to Functional/Numerical Verification
• Bamboo test plan updates
  • Remove old tests
  • Add test_refimager in parallel mode
• Note: Easter bank holidays in Germany: Fri 19 - Mo 22.

Development

• Calibration and Flagging
  • N/A
• Imaging
  • VLASS Imaging/Verification update
• Data Visualization
  • N/A
• Import / Export
  • N/A
• Infrastructure
  • N/A
• Simulation
  • N/A
• CASA 6
  • imager control from python
    • added shutdown interface
    • succeeded in opening viewer panel via grpc
• UVcontsub
  • Re-defining requirements (within CASA-dev) and presenting to Stakeholders (Apr 24).

Build / Testing

• Infrastructure
  • N/A
• Unit
  • N/A
• Verification
  • Testing docker to deploy different CASA test environments
  • What is the status of the gaincal merge, George? See the PR here
  • First VLASS Level 2 verification test is ready (need to coordinate with Andy et al about where to put it and how to run it)
  • Starting the process of requesting purchase for new build/test hardware
• Validation
  • CAS-12168, more testing
  • CAS-9108 et al, more testing/set up a polarization workflow
  • CAS-11460, finalize testing
  • CAS-7210, more testing (there's a list)
  • CAS-9621, testing (both mtmfs with multi scale and multi scale in cube)
  • CAS-5740, revamp testing
  • CAS-10518, test
  • CASA 6 general testing (not 5.6, but simultaneous to it)
  • CAS-12381, viewer testing (need to get somebody for this ASAP)

User Liaison Updates

• CASA Newsletter: publication date Wed April 24. Should we postpone Newsletter until CASA 5.5 is released?
• CUC mid-term update with new chair D.J. Pisano: proposed dates April 23, 25, May 8, 9

Pipeline Updates

• Long header keyword in CASA image: agreed with a solution for VLA ( PIPE-325)
• VLA regression failure: Brian created a ticket ( CAS-12412) assigned to Kumar. tclean result, e.g., RMS, differs in a several percent level on RHEL6 and 7.
• ALMA related: python 3 and RHEL7 migration meetings took place last week.
  • RHEL7: NAASC started to migrate to RHEL7. JAO follows in May. EU and EA later.
  • python 3 migration of almasw: start work in 2020. target cycle is Cycle 9
• pilot operation of SRDP will start in July

• Wataru Kawasaki
  • CAS-11955 - resume code reading.
• Takeshi Nakazato
• Renaud Miel
  • CAS-9842import asap inline help
    • Verification/validation complete. Pull request.
• Suminori Nishie
  • CAS-8418Higher order poinitng interpolation ( PointingDirectionCalculator) , 5.6 , "Under Verification"
    • Code review by Takeshi. Revised and Pushed. (done)
    • Memory leak or other critical part inspection. (done)
    • Wrting technical document of testing sequence and code structure. (In progress)
  • Obtaining higher C++skills, (OOD/OOP)
    • Reading widely textbooks of coding technique and modern SW-engineering methodology.