Monday Morning Meeting March 31

• DIAL-IN NUMBERS & PASSCODES:
• USA Toll Free Number: 866-901-8266
• USA Toll Number: +1-203-566-3863
• PARTICIPANT PASSCODE: 725760

Attendance

• Socorro: Rob, Lindsey, Jim, Susan, George, Juergen, Tak, Scott, Kumar.
• CV: Dave.
• Garching: Dirk, Justo.
• SCO:
• (Jeff on travel in CA)
• (Mark on travel in UK)

News / Meetings / Visitors

• ALMA Vis meeting March 3 (Socorro)
• Exascale Radio Astronomy: 30 March - 4 April
• ALMA Dev. Study AstroPy: 7-18 April
• Dirk Petry Visit: 12-23 May
• ALMA ObsMode: April 14-16
• Imaging Synthesis Workshop May 13-20

Build, Release, Testing

• CASA 4.2 Release on OSX
  • Major issue is linkage between CASA, CUPS and anotther CASA library. Causes crashes.
  • Secondary issue is a readline library. Causes prompts to be corrupt. Cosmetic, but should be fixed given how visible the bug is.
    • Similar bug mainifests on other linux distributions such as Fedora. May be a different problem.
  • Problems in packaged versions of CASA. Do not manifest in developer builds.
  • Juergen and Adam to review OSX package in current state to parallel the testing.
• Next test package not scheduled. Not expected within at least 2 weeks.

Architecture

• New Technical Forums:
  • April 3rd - Jim - Viewer: The Next Generation
• Software Engineering Wiki wish list for modern compiler and C++ 11
  • March 31: Received requirements on wiki page.
  • Working on a proposal/plan for implementation.
• Jim is collecting inputs on environmental variable setting management. Will send out an e-mail when ready.

Development

• 4.2 Patch Plan
  • Single Fix to the Viewer as 4.2.1 patch for summer school.
    • April 30th target for release on RHEL.
    • Same data sets will be used for the summer school. No new data sets.
    • CASA 4.2.1 Plan
  • Major patch will be 4.2.2 in anticipation of ALMA Cycle 2.
    • Branch available end of the week for development.
    • Team to provide input on plan scope and schedule.
    • Will include pipeline in release package.
    • CASA 4.2.2. Plan

Pipeline

• Working on list of blockers from ALMA punch list.
• Time to complete the work is the main concern. However, list is prioritized so it can be tackled in a reasonable order. Some changes may have to be postponed.
• Hard acceptance criteria would be helpful for punch list completion.

AOB

• N/A