Future Meeting dates (usually last Wed of the month):
2021 Feb 24 @ 1500 UTC
2021 Mar 31?
General Admin
General Status w.r.t. Coronavirus measures
NRAO/ALMA:
NRAO in North America will continue to work@home for foreseeable future (well into 2021). Infections rates high, but stabilizing(?) in US; vaccinations have started.
ALMA progressing with array restart plans; first test observation last week?
ASTRON/JIVE
Science/computing staff continuing work-at-home for now
CASA Release Schedule
CASA 6.1.1 for ALMA PL being exercised; working on a subtle repeatability issue (CAS-13283)
CASA 6.1.2/5.7.2 w/ polcal and tec fixes (VLASS, ALMA) released 2020Dec17.
(George) CAS-12735: Frequency meta-info (includes generalized fix for CAS-12553, and several other bug tickets)
Progress continues....
(Des) CAS-12765 (wide-spaced spws): waiting for freq meta fix in CAS-12735
(Neal) CAS-13184): accor corrdepflags.
Validation (Janssen) complete
some final tweaks to accor.xml?
(Mark) CAS-8537: gain curve. Now in validation. Need to ping Jen.
Validation complete (Mark)
Some final tweaks to align tests in casa5 and casa6?
(Neal) CAS-12736 (revised accor test)
Merge pending?
(Mark) CAS-12989 (eMerlin crosshands) Validation complete (Anita Richards). Need hard-to-get eMerlin dataset for proper verification test....
(Pam Harris) CAS-11318: Fringe-fitting solution plotting has been implemented in plotms!
Actually, dispersive term still needed to be added...
Pam and Des seem to have converged?
(CAS-13056, CAS-13003, and possibly CAS-13005 to slip to next cycle)
CASA 6.3 prioritization
(Justin) CASA 5.9/6.3 Stakeholder requirements submitted 2020 Jan 8 (?)
Other development topics
(Des) Memory leak in fringe-fitter? (from big EHT case by Janssen). Apparently not a leak, just a large memory case? Des continuing investigation (CAS-13224)