CASA Documentation Update Planning

Schedule

• ? May 2016: Plone server production-ready.
• 1 May 2016: Initial outline of document complete and agreed, assignments made.
• 20 Jan 2017: All sections populated, ready for review.
• : Review complete. Begin update of task XML and population of task pages
• 1 Jan 2017: Integration of documentation to build process complete (generation and harvesting of pages). "Explain" functionality available in CASA.
• 1 March 2017: Plone documentation serves as documentation for CASA release, deprecation of cookbook.

Meeting Minutes

• CasaDocUpdateMeeting20160603
• CasaDocUpdateMeeting20160610
• CasaDocUpdateMeeting20160624
• CasaDocUpdateMeeting20160701
• CasaDocUpdateMeeting20160708
• CasaDocUpdateMeeting20160715
• CasaDocUpdateMeeting20160722
• CasaDocUpdateMeeting20160729
• CasaDocUpdateMeeting20160805

• CASA 4.7 will be released with the Cookbook and the current documentation.
• I'm sure there will be questions I'll answer them here.

Outline and Assignments

Section		JIRA	Initial Author	Reviewer	Ready for Review	Ready to Publish	Published
Version Selection
	Staff Bio
Release Information
	Release Notes	CAS-9374	Ville	Sandra
	Known Issues	CAS-9289	Juergen	Everyone
	Resources and Links	CAS-9289	Juergen
	Obtaining and Installing	CAS-9292	Juergen	Dirk Petry
	Global Change Log	CAS-9374	Ville
	Jira Status / Bug Fixes	CAS-9375	Jeff
Using CASA
	Starting CASA	CAS-9293	Juergen
	Tasks	CAS-9293	Juergen
	Tools	CAS-9293	Juergen
	Logging	CAS-9293	Juergen
	CASA Interface and Scripting	CAS-9293	Juergen
	Writing Tasks in CASA: Task XML definition	CAS-9376	Jeff
	Environment: .casarc	CAS-9294	Jim	Darrell
	Help System	CAS-9295	Jeff	Sandra
Data: Import/Export
	Visibility Import Export	CAS-9296	Dirk	Dave
	Image Import Export	CAS-9296	Dirk	Dave
	Ephemeris Objects	CAS-9296	Dirk Petry	Brian Butler? or Arielle Moulett?
	Tasks	CAS-9297	Dave ((uv)FITS only), Dirk P. (ASDM, FITSIDI)	Sandra(importasdm)
	Tools	CAS-9297	Dave ((uv)FITS only), Dirk P. (ASDM, FITSIDI)
Data Selection:
	LEL	CAS-9081	Anand / Alan	Kumar
	Taql	CAS-9081	Anand / Alan	Kumar
	Select Document	CAS-9299	Sanjay	Sandra
	Region File Format	CAS-9300	Anand / Alan	Dave
Data Examination:
	plotms introduction	CAS-9301	Pam	George
	Other Tasks (plotants, plotcal, etc.)	CAS-9302	Juergen
	Tasks	CAS-9301	Pam
	Tools	CAS-9301	Pam
Data Editing
	Flag versions	CAS-9303	Sandra
	Auto-Flagging	CAS-9304	Urvashi	Justo, Sandra
	Flag data modes	CAS-9305	Justo
	Calibration table flagging	CAS-9305	Justo
	msview	CAS-9306	Darrell
	Tasks		N/A	Sandra
	Tools		N/A
UV Manipulation
	mstransform	CAS-9307	Justo	Dirk P.
	split	CAS-9307	Justo	Dirk P.
	cvel	CAS-9307	Justo	Dirk P.
	hanningsmooth	CAS-9307	Justo
	Tasks		N/A
	Tools		N/A
Calibration
	ME	CAS-9308	George	Dirk P.
	Weights	CAS-9308	George	Justo
	Cal Library	CAS-9308	George	Chris Hales?; Steve Myers?
	Virtual Model	CAS-9309	Kumar	Urvashi
	Cal Table Management	CAS-9308	George	Tak
	Calibration Application	CAS-9308	George	Chris Hales?
	UV-Plane Continuum Subtraction	CAS-9310	Tak	Justo
	Flux Calibrator Models	CAS-9310	Tak	Dirk P.
	tasks	CAS-9308	George
	tools	CAS-9308	George
Single Dish Calibration
Synthesis Calibration
	apriori calibration	CAS-9311	George
	tasks	CAS-9311	George
	tools	CAS-9311	George
Single Dish Imaging
Synthesis Imaging
	Overview - Major/minor cycles	CAS-9312	Urvashi
	Overview - Gridding algorithms	CAS-9312	Kumar
	Overview - Deconvolution algorithms	CAS-9312	Urvashi
	Continuum/wideband (mfs, multi-term mfs)	CAS-9312	Urvashi
	Spectral Line (coordsys info, frames,etc)	CAS-9313	Tak	Dirk Petry
	Wide-field Imaging (multi-field, facets, wproj, aproj)	CAS-9312	Sanjay
	Mosaics (stitched/ joint)	CAS-9314	Kumar
	Full polarization (stokes planes)	CAS-9315	Sanjay
	Primary beam correction/models	CAS-9312	Urvashi	Dirk Petry
	Model prediction for self calibration	CAS-9314	Kumar
	Boxing and Masking (fixed, interactive, auto)	CAS-9313	Tak
	High dynamic range imaging	CAS-9315	Sanjay
	tasks
	tools
Image Combination
	feather	CAS-9316	Kumar	Susan
VIsibility Analysis
	tasks	CAS-9377	Kumar
	tools	CAS-9377	Kumar
Image Analysis
	Dealing with Images	CAS-9317	Dave	Juergen
	tasks	CAS-9318	Dave
	tools	CAS-9318	Dave
Image Visualization
	Image Viewer	CAS-9319	Susan	Dirk P.
	CARTA	CAS-9320	Erik R. *	Susan
Simulation
	as in cookbook	CAS-9321	Jen	Juergen
Parallel Processing
	Starting casa using MPI	CAS-9322	Sandra	Justo
	Multi MS	CAS-9322	Sandra	Justo
	Parallel Calibration	CAS-9378	Justo (Sandra)	Sandra, Justo
	Parallel Imaging	CAS-9378	Justo (Sandra)	Sandra, Justo, Urvashi, Kumar
Pipeline
Data Models
	ASDM Definition	CAS-9323	Michel Caillat, Bob Garwood	Dirk P.
	MS Definition	CAS-9323	Dirk Petry
	Cal Table Format	CAS-9324	George
	Reference Frames	CAS-9379	Kumar	Dirk Petry
	Calibrator models and conventions	CAS-9380	Tak
	AIPS-CASA Dictionaries	CAS-9325	Anand / Alan
	MIRIAD-CASA Dictionaries	CAS-9325	Anand / Alan
	CLIC - CASA Dictionary	CAS-9325	Anand / Alan
AIPS++ Glossary			CASA 5.1
Tasks			automated
Tools			automated
Developer Topics:
Testing Framework		CAS-9381	Andy (Akeem)
Coding Guidelines		CAS-9382	Jim Jacobs
Process Definitions
	Jira Usage and conventions	CAS-9326	Anand
	Development Workflow	CAS-9326	Anand
	Testing Process	CAS-9327	Andy / Akeem