Face to Face meeting planning - Feb 24th in Charlottesville
Build/Test Process Reviews
Development
5.2
CAS-10849 : restoring beam in refconcat images : Fixed in CASA. Ready to validate (via tests by the pipeline group?). Code is currently only on the ticket branch.
Refconcat access speed issue that had a fix from KG -- any update from Ger on whether this can go in and when ?
Pipeline
5.1 / Pipeline
Dirk M investigating VLA / VLASS restoring beam computation issue
5.2 / Pipeline
Dirk M. to implement pipeline part of CAS-10849 fix and test
5.3 / Pipeline
Pipeline sessions branch merged to pipeline trunk
Includes HPC improvements, major changes to pipeline inputs parameter handling
Additional example script to reproduce, with "open + select + weight + apparentsens" on target MS
Checking sysstats and sampling profiling info
Some WIP (statistical) profiling results on CAS-10795, call graphs, etc.
Users
Viewer tickets: in November, 22% of NRAO-helpdesk tickets related to viewer/plotms (in Aug-Oct this was 15%). For ALMA helpdesk this is much less. Will make an more detailed overview for next week.
Documentation updates ongoing: CASA webpages, ALMA CASA Guides (Rachel Friesen), CASA Docs
CASA promotion at AAS in Jan (flyer) and EWASS in April (talk Dirk Petry)
Build, Release
Verification Testing
PEP + Short Thanksgiving Week = nothing to report here
Pipeline sessions branch merge testing, found major new inputs handling error
AQUA report presentation to the JVLA pipeline coordination meeting
Email discussions on ALMA dbservice, archive connection, Cycle 6, etc issues
Bjorn Emonts
Pam Ford
plotting cal tables in plotms: CAS-8270 under validation for minor bugfixes, CAS-10900 for printing summary to log (a la MSSummary) under development
Enrique Garcia
Working on CAS-10458: Vi/VB2 vb->visCubeCorrected() segfaults if no column. Improving unit tests on VI/VB2 while at that.
Bob Garwood
CAS-10644 : skipping duplicates in DATA and POINTING. The POINTING fix has been validated. Still working on the DATA changes.
CAS-10939 - importasdm error, exit code 256, Not a bug, closed (no data of the requested type existed in that ASDM).
CAS-10386 - Add new shared ALMA code to support 2 new ASDM tables in asdm2MS. The code has been copied to my sandbox and I've verified that test_importasdm still passes. Working on some example ASDMs from the VLA (pulsar table) to use to check this. Possibly also an ALMA ASDM with the new telcal-related table in it. There's a hint in the e-mail comments from the VLA that getting pulsar data to fill correctly may require additional asdm2MS changes.
importasdm (asdm2MS) silently skips Main rows when the binary file pointed to in that row is missing. Jeff remembers this as being a feature, not a bug. It may be time to reopen discussion on what should happen in that case. I'm still verifying that this is what happens.
Kumar Golap
David Mehringer
George Moellenbrock
Dirk Petry (cannot attend this time due to travel)
Problem detected last week in Measures table repository: updates didn't arrive at the repository. (This was detected by the automatic test cron job here at ESO.)
Multiple causes, partially masking each other: (1) accidental commit of older version by Tak replaced newer version, (2) power cut as ASTRON prevented update for one week, (3) server ("catapult") setup problem at NRAO
Communicated with Darrell who performed various fixes in the repository and elsewhere.
The automatic update system at ESO has been reset.
As of 26 Nov, ca. 15:00 h UT, all is fine again (both updates via update-data and direct rsync give the desired result; automatic update of this morning went fine; latest version of IERSpredict is 26 Nov 2017, available from the repo)
spent most of the end of the week understanding the /home/casa mirroring issues at the AOC
Ville Suoranta
Takahiro Tsutsumi
Added unit tests for cube tclean for an MS with a decreasing frequency order (CAS-10940). Also updated Spectral Imaging section in the plone documentation describing output cube image channel ordering for default width.
Discussion on possible use of the JPL-Horizons ephemeris tables in data/ephemerides/JPL-Horizons for ALMA control with Ralph. They will need much higher time sampling.
Removed limb-darkened disk model from cl tools model option as the current implementation will not work for directly creating image from the componentlist (CAS-10903)