Brian G test process review this week - may be making some changes to our testing philosophy
Development
Calibration and Flagging
Investigated CAS-11910 "flagdata's rflag with time averaging does not flag data". flagdata looks fine. Undersanding flagging with on-the-fly time and or channel averaging can be complicated. Combinations of options can confuse users.
CAS-12295 "rflag dictionaries timedev and freqdev" - improvements to documentation and input consistency checking. More error checking and usability improvements: CAS-12294 "Agent flagger: reorganize agent list checks and clarify messages".
unlike CASA 5 the configure now searches through C++11 compilers attempting to find one which supports OpenMP (i.e. GNU), this primarily affects OSX
added ability to query for gRPC compile and link flags
python -m casatools --grpc-compile
python -m casatools --grpc-link
python -m casatools --grpc-protoc
Build / Testing
Infrastructure
N/A
Unit
N/A
Verification
Pilot code review for Neal's listobs verification test
Scheduled for Thursday @ 11AM MT/1PM ET - George, are you available?
blcal test finished
Trouble with imdev interp and stretch parameters?
Working on getting refimager in parallel mode in to critical tests (run at each pull request)
Trying to secure additional hardware resources to accommodate additional test time
Working with Takeshi on prioritizing SD tests
Updating which tests are run in the test suites, including using telemetry data to see which tasks are used the most
We are also thinking about how to include a serial run of refimager during pull requests
Validation
Under Validation
BLOCKER CAS-11191 tclean mosaic gridder should be able to use VLA POINTING table properly averaging over visibility integration time (related to CAS-12223)
BLOCKER CAS-9108 Linear basis-specific 'Xf' (multi-scan) improvements (AND SEVERAL RELATED POLARIZATION TICKETS)
BLOCKER CAS-12314 CASA 5.4 can not import new ASDMs with schemaVersion="4"
BLOCKER CAS-7210 (CAS-4640) Connect imaging weight gridder ( TCLEAN producing arc-like noise patterns when imaging small chunks of data when robust<1 )
CAS-8619 Turn im.apparentsens into a CASA task
CAS-11460 im.apparentsens to use the regular channel selection syntax
CAS-11965 Fix fitspw issue on master
CAS-8087 Support plotting pointing direction (R.A.-Dec.) by plotms
CAS-12168 L1 and outlier rejection implementation
CAS-12205 plotms: unflag operation doesn't work when time average is ON
CAS-10593 Make component list prediction with beam use frequency variation
CAS-12021 Add re-referencing support to fringefit task
CAS-12033 fix doc(...) command so that it always goes to online plone
CAS-11988 (CAS-10294) Propagate spectral window subtable across TVIs
CAS-11501 connecting the dots for caltables in plotms
not yet ready to validate but still needed in 5.5: George's two tickets for cal library fixes, CAS-11978, CAS-11140 (and from search of JIRA for 5.5 blockers not above or closed: CAS-12103, CAS-12277, CAS-12237 [which I think is one of George's tickets])
User Liaison Updates
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Pipeline Updates
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Single Dish Development (2/14/19)
Wataru Kawasaki
Takeshi Nakazato
handled pull requests
updated CASA 5.5 and CASA 5.6 Planning Confluence pages