Circulated proposal to include refimager in parallel mode at PR
Validation
Kana: status of tickets moving to PIPE?
Under Validation (issues remaining in validation for CASA 5.5)
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-7210 (CAS-4640) Connect imaging weight gridder ( TCLEAN producing arc-like noise patterns when imaging small chunks of data when robust<1 )
note that the ALMA issue with the increase in the psf size remains; Kumar, Remy, and Crystal propose a plan for this ticket with Kumar doing experimentation on solutions and having a recommendation by March 11
BLOCKER CAS-11978 mfs PSF generation fails in mpi mode with multiple ms'es and briggs or uniform weighting unless mosweight=False explicitly
CAS-8619 Turn im.apparentsens into a CASA task -- must be finished this week (tester headed to AoD shift)
CAS-11460 im.apparentsens to use the regular channel selection syntax -- must be finished this week (tester headed to AoD shift)
CAS-8087 Support plotting pointing direction (R.A.-Dec.) by plotms -- waiting on decisions for how to handle INT/EVLA data, final validation for SD and non-EVLA INT data needs to be done if the latter will be supported in 5.5 release
CAS-12168 L1 and outlier rejection implementation
CAS-10593 Make component list prediction with beam use frequency variation
CAS-12021 Add re-referencing support to fringefit task
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-12237 and CAS-12280 (I think)
CAS-11140 Update ATM for CASA 5.5
CAS-11367 modify test_refimager to also run in parallel when an mpi cluster is available (?)
and from search of JIRA for 5.5 blockers not above or closed: CAS-12103 conjbeams default for mosaic gridder in tclean (5.5), CAS-12277 Add simulator configuration files ALMA Cycle-7 and ngVLA to CASA 5.5
CAS-12302 Updating XML files of CASA tasks
pointing tables for awproject, Preshanth to do, not yet in a CAS ticket (?), CAS-7727?
User Liaison Updates
CAS-12302: Updating XML files of CASA tasks
CAS-12277: Add simulator configuration files ALMA and ngVLA
CAS-12251: CASA Newsletter Issue 8
Pipeline Updates
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Single Dish Development (2/28/19)
Wataru Kawasaki
a list of sophisticated mathematical operations used in CASA SD codes: passed it to Takeshi