CASA Index

Users

• CASA homepage
• Obtaining and installing CASA for users
• CASA Guides
• CASA Reference and Cookbook
• toolkit reference manual ( release version , trunk version)
• task reference manual ( release version, trunk version)
• Interferometry algorithms articles
• Memo on Measurement Set Selection Syntax
• How to submit a helpdesk ticket
• Memo on CASA 3.3 benchmarks on a workstation with solid state disk
• CASA Flagging tool 3.4 - Guide for beta testing

Developers

• Development Dependencies

• Software Engineering

• Building CASA - good luck with that.
  • Some build notes for Linux and OS X
  • various old hopelessly deprecated pages: Building CASA from source
    • What works in Socorro on RHEL6
  • Fetching data from the data repository

• CASA status
  • CASA's main Wiki page
  • Recent changes to the code USELESS - BROKEN BY SWIG
  • NRAO Jenkins active branch status
  • NRAO Jenkins nightly regression results
  • Socorro regression reports for active branch with 64-bit linux
  • Nightly Sneeze 64 bit log: Is the active branch broken today (RHEL 5.8, 64 bit, run daily at ca. 5:00 h UTC)? Is it safe to update?
  • Bug tracking via JIRA
  • Updating test branch

• Design Documentation

• Source Code Change Control
  • Committing, Branches, and Merging
  • Subversion Cleanup and Reorganization

• Packaging
  • Packaging Requirements - not yet approved.
  • CASA Version Numbering
  • Binary Release Creation Script (make-app)
  • CASA 6.0 Notes

• Testing
  • Writing and running regression (end-to-end) tests
  • Writing and running Python functional tests
  • Interactive GUI Tests
  • Log of Tests Failures (very old)
  • Testing That May Eventually Become JIRA Tickets
  • Improving CASA Testing
  • Test Hosts

• Understanding the code structure and developing
  • How to setup a CASA RHEL Developer Machine
  • Tips for CASA developers
  • Running Debuggers
  • AIPS++ Coding Guidelines (Note 167)
  • Official description of the Measurement Set format
  • Unofficial MS items (including scratch columns)
  • CASA doxygen (include casacore)
  • CASA Class hierarchy (includes casacore)
  • Toolkit Reference Manual (generated document from gcwrap/tools/*/*.xml files)
  • Task Reference Manual (generated from gcwrap/tasks/*.xml files)
  • Tool bindings, XML, and more
  • Modifying the XML-bound task/tool interface (doc needs work)
  • (AIPs++) Glossary of Terms
  • CASA RC Variables list
  • CASA C++11 Conversion
  • TVI Development Guide

• Specific code issues and howtos
  • Accessing Data Around NRAO
  • Tables and (un)locking them
  • Using DBus
  • Adding a method/action to plotms
  • Official MSSelect documentation (see also the JIRA ticket CAS-2088)
  • Subtleties of spws and IFs in CASA, AIPS and uvfits
  • Frequencies and velocities of channels in CASA and miriad
  • Profiling CASA
  • Using matplotlib in CASA
  • CASA Viewer
  • OutstandingUIandIAIssues
  • casa plot server
  • Using OpenMP with casa code: some tips
  • Updating ephemeris tables
  • use of global variables

• Long-term planning (a lot of stuff here)
  • CASA-3.2 Planning

• Development Tools
  • Eclipse feature overview
  • C++ reference
• Administration
  • CASA Roadmap document
  • Criteria for JIRA ticket priorities
  • Required: Developer checklist for committing code, in RTF format or ASCII format
  • Required: CASA Integrated Release Process

• Meetings And Discussions
  • 2013 CASA Developers' Meeting
  • 2010 CASA Developers' Meeting
  • 2010 ASAP Developer Meeting
  • telecons 866 901 8266 x725760
  • Asynchronous I/O and Usage Patterns Discussion (held 11 January 2011)
  • 2012 HPC, BDF and casacore meeting at ESO
  • Build and Package Blog

• Miscellaneous
  • ALMA pipeline
  • 3D Viewer Project
  • our best developer

• Infrastructure
  • NRAO Automation, Development, And Test Computers

• Obsolete
  • 3.3.0 Release Status and Process
  • 3.4.0 Release Status and Process
  • 4.0.0 Release Status and Process