(Ryan) Delayed by managing a very large dataset for benchmarking, also cluster upgrade, etc.
(Ryan) Also Dask conference 2 weeks ago. Growing fast! Radioastronomy workstop, incl. ngcasa talk. Possible coordination on data structures (Simon Perkins, MSv2)? Interesting concerns about python adaptability/flexibility, avoiding for loops, etc.....
(Mark) Intending to look at VLBI datasets via converter. Some initial exploratory work here. Initially some difficulties with casacore... Some basic data examination, so far.
(Ryan) Revised CASA Management Plan (reinforcing development practices, including documentation, correctness standards, code reviews, limited use of engineering tasks, monthly releases); final version due in a few weeks.
casa6 build instructions coming soon!
(Mark) RHEL6 issues... (Ryan: vmware-based, so should be immune...)
Nearly ready for validation/merge-to-master for 6.3 (waiting for 5.8/6.2 branching)
(Mark, CAS-13270) Handle NaNs in imported Tsys. Merged.
(Des, CAS-13224?) memory management improvements in fringefit. (already essentially validated by Janssen)
(Mark, CAS-8550) Pulsar-binned and single-IF import now not blocked by sys power support in exportuvfits; Need to coordinate casacore merge after 5.8/6.2 branching (pending CAS-11860?). The casacore uprev in progress on CAS-13442. Merged
(Mark, CAS-13383) Mixed polarization basis conversion for JIVE. Merged.
Need to push these to/thru verification, to be poised for validation and merge (George to liase with Jen on validation)
Ongoing for 6.3+6.4
(George, CAS-12735; 12765,12553; 12954,10276) Frequency meta-info (work continues...)
(Mark, CAS-13466) AveragingTvi2 preavg opt-out for fringefit: Ready for verification and validation.
(George: no-rates mode ok? Should be ok.)
(CAS-13287 chunking error in AveragingTvi2 for certain conditions; under separate investigation)
(Mark, CAS-13266) Per-scan interpolation via overloading per-obs mechanism.
Awaiting review by George
(Des, CAS-13056) Overlapping solution intervals
Initial implementation awaiting review by George
(Neal, CAS-13005) Handle refant exhaustion better. Neal to add warnings for pathological case
(Mark, CAS-13473) (new) Permit smoothcal for accor solutions: Mark arranging verification test
Justin: context: USNO user finding f.d. scale very sensitive (20%!) to smoothing accor solutions or not (in AIPS). Unclear if accor solutions should really need smoothing; probably related to something pathological in the specific data itself which pivots sensitively on smoothing AC-related info, e.g., RFI.
(Neal, CAS-13005) rerefant needs better warnings for continuity pathologies. Mark has provided Neal a good example.
Underway for 6.3+6.4
(Des, CAS-13361) Polarization combination for fringefit. (deploy for fringefit 6.3, other things for 6.4?)
Awaiting review by George
(Mark, CAS-13003). EOP update (6.4).
Other/Miscellaneous
(Mark/Des) Using external storage managers (DysCo) with CASA 6. (Offringa). Prospects for adding to casacore?
CAS-12485: OTF weight munging for solve (Can we complete validation and deploy? Des seeking interested users at JIVE)
(George/Justin) to coordinate initial testing on CASR-463 (TEC) to better characterize basic requirements (also CAS-13040 re TEC retrieval changes)