Meeting Minutes (09 Oct 2007) Review of bug reports from Jean Four Critical Bugs remain to be fixed. There are additional Priority Bugs that need to be verifi...
October 2007 Release Calendar (NR with changes) * June 15 30: All Proposal Helpdesk members submit comments recommendations about plan of action to the help...
Dashboard Update Process The Dashboard on NRAO Interactive Services is the first screen you see after you log in. There are several things that NRAO would like to...
Feedback from Frazer Owen 1) When I was inputting my first source, the tool failed with an exception. The second time with no changes it appeared to work. It is n...
Feedback from Toney MInter The new look and feel of the PST is a great improvement. I think that proposers will like it much better than the previous version. ...
Feedback from Ron Maddalena I gave the PST a quick 1 hr spin. A very impressive change and significant improvement in look and feel!! Very intuitive, even if I ...
Feedback from Nissim Kanekar 0. It would be useful to have a link to the relevant help file on the PST easily accessible on each page. 1. There seems to be no...
Feedback from Ed Fomalont I've done a quick try on the proposal tool. Immediately, the look and feel is much better than the previous version. Some comments: ...
Feedback from Claire Chandler Thanks for helping me with the login. There's just one serious (but straightforward) bug (#4) I noticed that will need to be fixed ...
Feedback from Elias Brinks General: I don't seem to have found any "Help" facility Please add a cancel option at all locations where a file can be uploaded. ...
Feedback from Tom Bania First comment: My old password no longer worked and so I had to request a new on. I had not forgotten it, it is in a file, it clearly was...
Feedback from Dana Balser o Proposal Page 1. Overview Is there a way to delete a proposal? 2. Cover Sheet Much better. 3. Authors I was not able to add an a...
PST Feedback (June 2007) Summary of User's Committee Comments (via Nicole Radziwill) * Unclear when to validate and when to save. * Should be able to add m...
PST Feedback (October 2006) Summary from Joan Wrobel At the 2006 October 2 deadline, a total of 217 proposals were received via the PST. These were split as 122...
PST Feedback (June 2006) Summary from Joan Wrobel ================================================== Summary of 31 VLA Responses to Request for PST Fee...
More Analytics We know we want more analytics, but we haven't specified them yet. I'm going to use this page to jot down notes about what analytics are needed or ...
Improving Sources, Resources and Sessions NRAO Interactive Services Modification Request 10C108, November 2007 1. Introduction For this activity, we would lik...
Improve Structure of Zip files with Printed Proposals NRAO Interactive Services Modification Request 1C108, November 2007 1. Introduction Why do we need this?...
Make Resources Configurable by Science Operations Staff at Sites NRAO Interactive Services Modification Request 1C108, November 2007 1. Introduction Why do we...
Table structure refactoring and replication of databases to sites NRAO Interactive Services Modification Request 1C108, November 2007 1. Introduction Why do w...
Obtaining CASA for ALMA U4 / ACS 6.0.4 Installation To support ALMA a special release of CASA has been built which shares common tools, e.g. python, xerces, etc....
* Accessing the ATM Library Please note that the ATM library is only available for CASA developers working on ALMA. The ATM library is available via the Charlotte...
Status Report, 31 August 2007 Algorithm R D Main.EdFomalont Archive Main.RonDuPlain CASA Kumar? High Performance Computing (HPC) Main.RonDuPlain Man...
Obtaining CASA for Macintosh Power PC CASA Installer 2007 JULY 13 NEW YORK CITY BLACKOUT 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION This release corresponds to CASA Release alp...
Task Names (changes noted by **) Available tasks: accum : Accumulate calibration solutions into a cumulative table almasimmos : ALMA mosaic simulation ta...
DB ASAP Overview The ASAP package installed in CASAPY has much of the required functionality for single dish analysis. I find the tool based approach cumbersome ...
ASAP First, I can do everything in the scripts just fine. It's a bit clunky and the documentation rather thin, but it does seem to work and I haven't crashed any...
Various Options Panel widget problems The following are known problems with Options Panel interface elements. High priority. * Buttons do not work (see edit...
Testing 22feb07 M. Rupen 22feb07 CASA Version 2.0 Rev 1457 Built on: Wed 2007/02/21 02:15:06 UTC ...run on my Linux desktop (scamper) Was trying to check why D...
Testing NGC 7538 regression script DSS 22feb07 Summary of issues: In listobs summary, does ArrayID = 0 = D array? This should be explained somewhere in...
Crashes and hangs in casaviewer I have received various reports of crashes and hangs, and am working to characterize them. High priority. I suspect these mostly...
Post Installation Setup for CASA Macintosh Intel Your Shell Environment CASA uses an enhanced Python environment (an open source shell called iPython) for its pr...
Trickier image DD options The most useful of these is probably the visual histogram assisted scaling of colors to data values. I like it too, but it is complex a...
Viewer is not yet usable for editing MS flags There are several problems in the general Options Panel's interface elements that prevent flag editing at present ...
MS display is grey for good data The layer that shows flags is supposed to be transparent in 'good data' areas, to show the data layer underneath. Transparent ('...
Hi Guys, As part of the ALMA pipeline test, I used exportuvfits in order to move the data into casa and aips for comparison with the pipeline. It is the old ...
Some Comments on the Flagging Tool 1.1 Data Selection 1. Can selection be done on the basis of data description indices or are these for internal use only ? ...
aipslin * Ed says: The amplitudes produced by interp='aipslin' in accum appear to be mis scaled by an order of magnitude. * George says: Oops. The 'aipsli...
ft task * Ed says: I'm trying to be a source model into the model column of an ms. I am using ft as taskname = 'ft' vis = 'fornax_l.ms' fieldid = 2 model = '...
plotxy antenna names When plotxy plots data, it labels the antennas with the name and not the ID. This can get confusing since it is the id that is used as an i...
Phase Units Using plotxy: When the xaxis is 'uvdist', the phases come out in degrees. When xaxis = 'time', the phases come out in radians. Main.JosephMcM...
Plotcal iteration Here something 'anal'. In continuing plot iterations, you type 'n' or 's' to continue or to stop when using plotxy. However, plotcal uses ...
Viewer Contours problem You might look at the viewer. I am trying to contour an image successfully made. However, I can't put in negative or decimal contour l...
* Ed says: When beginning casapy, some version information about casapy should appear along with the introductory information. Darrel mentioned the unix utility ...
Seg Fault for bad Field ID plotxy(vis=DB, xaxis='time', yaxis='amp', datacolumn='data', fieldid=15) fieldid=15 did not exist. I got a segmentation fault and core...
Calibration Tasks Parameter lists * Joe says: The issue is that we are trying to keep the parameter lists compact, however there are options that are requ...
autocall should be standard * Joe writes: * The difference in behavior was due to the distributed IPython 0.7.1 version on RHE4; this is resolved. Main...
browsetable errors * Gustaaf wrote: While in 'browsetable', every click on a field in the table causes what appear to be diagnostic messages in the main casapy...
taskname help * Gustaaf said: Running on imager b (which I am accessing using 'ssh'), the option 'taskname'? does not work; the result is gibberish. It works ...
* Steve said: It occurs to me that it might be advantageous to make this AIPS like task interface (with global parameters) even more AIPSified. For example, one ...
importarchive * Gustaaf writes: 1 there are no defaults for parameters 'vis' and 'bandname'. I can understand that for 'vis', but for bandname there shou...
output from importarchive * Gustaaf writes: While running 'importarchive', I get pages and pages of numeric output which to me appear more like the re...
ASDM Modification Planning (Post SS2) The following summarizes our discussions on the ASDM planning within the context of the Releases and FBTs. There are seve...
ASDM2MS Filler code The goal is to have an ASDM2MS filler (reading from disk only) that can be completely contained with the CASA SVN tree and distributed with n...
output from importarchive * Gustaaf writes: While running 'importarchive', I get pages and pages of numeric output which to me appear more like the re...
listobs * Gustaaf writes: Listobs appears to give useful information, but could use a better lay out. Why does the line: 'date','time', 'taskname' have to rep ...
Single Dish Intents/Modes/Use Case comparisons Purpose: Compare intents and modes particularly with regard to SD data The intent and state information in SDFITS,...
Auto swap image display/hidden axes I want display axes to swap automatically for images, as they already do for MSs, when the user changes just one axis (using t...
Viewer initial working directory incorrect The viewer comes up in the directory it where it was last used; users expect it to be in the directory where the progra...
Display of contour images I believe this resulted from clobbering of some initial axis setting code (that assures the spectral axis goes on the animator). I've f...
Multi image cursor tracking information; DD 'registration' Showing a cursor tracking box for each DD registered on the display panel is moderately high on the 'To...
Recognize MIRIAD format images in Load data I have loaded and displayed all 3 MIRIAD images (j, h, k) directly from the directory you used: /home/sola/dss/1.past...
Color bars, Beam ellipses. Color bars are obviously needed, but require a fair amount of work. It involves managing special purpose subpanels on the pixelcanvas...
Full interoperability/scripting under casapy We have yet to find a way of truly integrating the viewer with casapy and the framework, so that it could, e.g. be sc...
Print Manager clean up. Printing clean up. The scope of this one is not yet clear to me, but there is definitely some superfluous/redundant/nonfunctional interfa...
Data Manager clean up Several things remain to do here: * The 'Update' button does not function yet. * All irrelevant file types should be hidden. * ...
Preserve certain settings between sessions In place of the old .aipsrc file (which users maintained manually), some settings could simply preserve their values fr...
More support of keyboard events At least the spacebar (to freeze/release tracking) and arrow keys (for panning) need translation/event forwarding support on the m...
Tracking in pixel coordinates. MSs track both 'world' and pixel coordinates simultaneously (a major reason why they use more tracking lines than images). Images ...
Remove white space from Viewer tracking area I have had several problems in sizing widgets correctly, esp. in auto sizing to contents. Some are due to bugs in th...
External to AOC testing * Suggested to keep testing within the AOC until things are in better shape (SM). * Not agreed to; NAASC testing can continue with ...
Easy clean region setting * Steve says: NOTE: Even better, we should be able to make a text boxfile with lists of BLC,TRC (four integers) or CENTER,RADIUS (thr...
makemask task * Steve says: Would like to try some cleaning. Unfortunately, mosaic (and clean) only take masks at this time. Could use the ia tool to make so...
Phase Center problem in Mosaic * First part is resolved by adding a phasecenter parameter to mosaic task * Steve notes: OK, this worked (wall time was about...
Mosaicing memory issue * Steve says: mosaic terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): St9bad_alloc Abort (core dumped) Must ...
Viewer close out * close the viewer down when you exit CASA * if a viewer has been started then the pid is killed upon exit from CASA Main.JosephMcMullin ...
Viewer start * enable viewer start without an image * enabled. If the imagename parameter is set to the default (False), then it just opens up the viewer ...
Expert Mode * Expert mode for tasks allow access to all capabilites * "Normal" mode for tasks allow only some parameters to be set, other parameters have se...
Auto parameter saving * Upon execution of any task, a file in the current working directory is created with the name 'taskname.last'. Main.JosephMcMullin 2...
Imaging Bugs Patch 1 * inconsistent use of alg,mfalg for clean, mosaic; error trapping prevented execution. * improper options for mode; adjusted and mapp...
Flag Scope * Crystal wrote: (2) Ability to flag channel averaged data and apply to spectral line data=20 set. Note that I require two senses of this feature. (...
Calibration Transfer * Crystal wrote: (3) It must be possible to self calibrate on one dataset and apply those=20 calibrations to another seperate dataset (i.e...
Data Weights Discussion * Crystal wrote: (1) Ability to properly calibrate data weights based on Tsys. Central to=20 this feature is elevation dependent opacit...
* should be able to interchange Quantity and qa.quantity...otherwise its unuseful to use qa.quantity and cannot use that output in qa.convert for example. *...
The following list of tools have xml files. Please check the arguments and make adjust the argument names in the XML files in the code repository as necessary. ...
Tool: sdreader tool for importing single dish files Method: sdreader Construct a sdreader tool filename string input file name theif int select a sp...
Tool: ms Operations on measurement sets Method: ms Create an ms tool attached to a measurement set filename string measurement set file name nomodif...
Tool: measures measures tool Method: measures Construct measures tool host string host on which to run tool forceneweserver bool force the use of a ...
Tool: functional Functionals handling Method: functional Construct functional tool host string valid host name string for the host on which to run too...
Tool: coordsys Operations on CoordinateSystems Method: coordsys Create a default coordsys tool direction bool Make a direction coordinate ? spectral...
Tool: autoflag Automatic synthesis flagging Method: autoflag Construct an autoflag tool from a MeasurementSet msname unknown Measurement set to be pro...
CASA Developers Meeting Friday, 09 June 2006 Wes Young Presents the CcmTools Q: Add a parameter to the interface merge the stub with existing code? A: ...
Meeting Notes from the CalgaryDevelopersMeeting Friday, 2 June see also * CalgaryDevelopersMeetingMeetingNotesSaturday * CalgaryDevelopersMeetingMeetingN...
The day started with everybody drooling for the famous TH's doughnuts as promised by Joe And sadly Joe appeared without any of the Tim horton's gold nuggets.... o...
Source Code Control Subversion Migration? * easier maintainence * easier branching * ATNF is using subversion * Subversion maintains a concept of a t...
Packaging Third Party Packages All the different third party packages that we need. We have had problems in the past with third party systems. Joe is very happy ...
Casa to Python Migration Main.WesYoung (wes has a powerpoint presentation that can go here) Migration Timetable Tools "Completed" The status for each of these...
Defect Tracking Migrating away from Clear DDDDDDS, but right now we're in this middleground where we still have issues in the old system, and we're using the new ...
MeqTreeSimulator Tony Willis gave a nice presentation: * http://www.ism.ucalgary.ca/meetings/casca06/regis/show_abs.php?id=157 * Qt Widgets for Technical Ap...