Agenda

CASA/JIVE VLBI Coordination Meeting

2020 April 29 @ 1400UTC

Logistics

• Future Meeting dates (usually last Wed of the month):
  
  • 2020 May 27 @ 1400 UTC
  • 2020 Jun 24?

General Admin

• General Status w.r.t. Coronavirus measures
  • NRAO/ALMA:
    
    • NRAO in North America on "Infectious Disease Operating Status (IDOS)" (work at home) until June 1+
      • VLA continuing to observe (will remain in C-configuration to at least June 8, pending adequate health/safety measures to permit antenna moves)
      • VLBA continuing to observe
    • ALMA staff working from home; ALMA Cycle 7 telescope operations suspended; ALMA Cycle 8 postponed 1 full year (renewed proposal call March 2021)
  • ASTRON/JIVE
    • Staff working at home at least until ~start of June.
  • CASA
    • Work continuing at home on a best-efforts basis; weekly Google Meets working reasonably well.
    • CASA 5.7/6.1 release pending completion of Cube imaging refactor and general validation work
    • CASA 6.1.1 expected in a few months
    • CASA 5.8/6.2 planning ongoing
    • Full implications of ALMA delays unclear, as yet; will proceed as planned for now
  • Connection for this meeting: JIVE Zoom
• (Mark) Requirements collation status?
• (George/Ryan) CASA VLBI Readiness
  • VLBA and JIVE prioritization of Mark's requirement doc?
  • Brian Glendenning would like a "credible effort estimate" for UC meeting at end of May(!)
• (Ryan) CNGI Status
  • CNGI/ngCASA Conceptual Design Review: 2020 Jun 9-10 (Documentation by May 20)
• Pending admin issues
  • casa6 build issues: formal instructions for plotms, CASAshell, casa5/6 co-exist, c++ unit tests in casa6
  • New VLBI integration branch?
• Other admin?

Development

• Processes
  • Stakeholders exercise is for planning CASA staff work distribution, according to a broad spectrum of requests; does not control JIVE development effort, though JIVE welcome to contribute as a stakeholder
  • Tools/processes evolving on confluence/JIRA as CASA 5.8/6.2 planning is settled.
  • All VLBI-specific efforts to be documented with CASA effort; isolated via "VLBI" and "VLBI@JIVE" JIRA labels. May leverage confluence a bit more in future.
• CASA 5.7/6.1
  • JIRA Status
• CASA 5.8/6.2 Planning
  
  • CASA 5.8/6.2 VLBI Development (whole page under development)
  • JIRA Status
  • CASA 5.8/6.2 Stakeholders Requirements (VLBI)

AOB?