Look at next 5 or 6 weeks and map out what you will be working on. Urvashi will talk with everyone to make sure highest priority items are covered.
Anand will create a 5.NEXT fixVersion for moving out of scope 5.1 items.
Verification Testing
CAS-10299: In the process of removing and adding SD tests in the framework, in preparation of removing ASAP
Current status is pull request is open
MPI tests are failing, due to not being able to import sdimprocess_pg - could be related to changes ASAP
Looking at parallel python and HTCondor as a way to run tests in parallel (using different threads, and a queuing system)
Validation Testing
MUST-HAVES FOR 5.0
no current showstoppers in VB2 tclean testing, autoboxing, or simulations
plone
no individual pages are blocking except for the CASA Help page, which Anand is writing, and Visibility Data Selection, which I am going to try to fix during the flight home tomorrow
CAS-10121, ready for testing in the pre-release branch (Anand)
mstransform issues with averaging
CAS-9853 mstransform (regridms=True) implementation of correct gridding (issues reported, including with weights column)
MSSelector testing
CAS-8050 Remove obsolete MS selection framework MSSelector from ms tool (Tom) (if this is replacing functionality in 5.0, which was my understanding, but Pam is clarifying)
Verifying the failures in mpi parallel tests. They are caused by the renaming of task sdimprocess to sdfixscan. This renaming should also be added to the file in mpi4casa/task_wrappers.py. I will fix it in a new branch of the same ticket and create a pull request.
Development
CASA 5.1
Parallel Cube tclean ( rework vs bugfixes, and consequences for the testing group and pipeline )
Pipeline
Review of pending ALMA Cycle 5 issues and tickets
CASA 5.1. issues
tlcean convergence in HPC mode
multi-ms ephemeris object support
msmd memory issues
AOB
Developer Reports
Thursday Meeting
Sanjay Bhatnagar
Sandra Castro
Lindsey Davis
Catch up on pipeline issues after vacation
Discussions with ESO team on HPC and uvcontsub related issues
Review of Cycle 5 tickets
Discussions with Remy on Cycle 5 tickets
Discussion with Rachel on ALMA infrastructure / build / release issues
Removed remaining pipeline dependencies on analysisUtils
Added support for ASDM QA2 flags
Pam Ford
fixed test_plotweather
responded to validation testing for ms tool refactoring (CAS-8050 and CAS-8283)
continued work on plotting atmospheric curve (CAS-9053)
hiring committee for CARTA UI position
interesting talks on Scrum and async vi2
Enrique Garcia
Bob Garwood
Kumar Golap
Jeff Kern
David Mehringer
George Moellenbrock
CAS-10139: new refant 'strict' mode almost ready for validation; introduced some significant infrastructural changes to support generating test-worthy cal tables via SimpleSimVi2Parameters (i.e., don't need a MS, yet also sets a precedent for VI2-driven formation of caltable meta-data).
Some JIRA followup on VI2 discussions re continuing VI2 improvements. New epic: CAS-10292. Still a few things to add in from some residual pre-5.1 tickets (or parts thereof).
applied casacore commit of Dirk's to casa-5.0.0 branch
presented design for async vi2
continued implementation of async vi2
merged casacore pull request from David for CAS-10150
Federico M Pouzols
CAS-9853 "mstransform (regridms=True) implementation of correct gridding" - issues with zero weights fixed, and related...
CAS-10283 "wt extrapolation explodes to >1e34 values" also seems fixed in the CAS-9853 branch.
CAS-5727 "Flagdata's scan list in log-reports per chunk" - fixed, ready for testing.
CAS-8461 "flagdata mode="summary" ignores antenna selection" - I think the current code does the right thing.
CAS-9089 "automatic generation of antenna position corrections from web service / ALMA TMCDB" - adding and double-checking correct formulation of position differences.
Thanks Socorro colleagues for all the interesting discussions last couple of weeks!
Urvashi Rao
CARTA+Interactive Imager : Got a local CASA build going for James Dassoulas, started work (with Darrell) to resurrect an old prototype of asynchronous interaction.
Other work : Met with Jeff for information transfer regarding sci/tech development plans for 5.1 and beyond, continued to mentor two summer students daily, attended/examined a remote PhD student viva, did some (ongoing) work for a hiring committee.
Darrell Schiebel
identifying unused source files
identifying duplicately named source files
little work on interactive clean
exploring python module builds
hiring chores -- gui developer
async vi/vb review
doc tweaks
shepherding crash rpt and doc changes
Ville Suoranta
Takahiro Tsutsumi
Robust flux scale bootstrapping (CAS-9186) - pushed the initial implementation
Friday NAOJ Meeting
Kanako Sugimoto
started a process to update ATM library in CASA 5.1 ( CAS-9958): contacted TELCAL team. JUL-TELCAL release deadline is Jul. 3rd.
Wataru Kawasaki
Masaya Kuniyoshi
Takeshi Nakazato
worked on CAS-10267 (importasap crash)
setup 10.12 development environment to investigate intermittent failure of sdimaging unit test
memory consumption discussion on msmd tool (CAS-10150, CAS-10303)
Renaud Miel
CAS-8082 PlotMS Header: pushed minor bug fix, run unit tests, updated ticket with testing recommendations
Ordered new NAOJ CASA development server, purchase ongoing
Created new NAOJ CASA download count script. NAOJ download site will support https in addition to ftp starting from next week.