= Developer Meetings =

== 2010 Developer Meeting ==
(tentative)
July 28th - Aug 7, 2010 at NAOJ (Mitaka, Tokyo) 

=== Goals ===

 * merge the asap trunk and alma branches
 * create development plan which includes CASS and ALMA
 * Document design
 * ...

=== Attendees ===
(confirmed)

||Daisuke Iono ||NAOJ||
||Wataru Kawasaki ||NAOJ||  
||George Kosugi ||NAOJ||  
||Takeshi Nakazato ||NAOJ||
||Malte Marquarding ||CSIRO|| 
||Kana Sugimoto ||NAOJ|| 
||Tak Tsutsumi ||NRAO||


=== Schedule ===

(tentative)

* Day 1: Overview
  planning sessions for the rest of the meeting to set goals

* Day 2 - ?: ASAP merge (alma branch -> trunk of ATNF ASAP svn)  "working session(s)"
   - Starting point would be alma branch updated recently by Kana
   - include few more updates from CASA
   - Resolve any conflicts, duplicated features, etc
   - (move ASAP logger to CASA C++ logger?) 
   - Documentation (including scantable format description)


[Most of sessions below will be scheduled on Aug 6 and 7th]

* Discussions(1): near term (~1yr?) ASAP coordination 
   - Future merge (alma branch->trunk) planning 
      - how often? procedures
      - coordinating with release schedules of each packages
   - Development plans (for CASA, CASS?) 
       - fillers?
       - plotter
       - flagging
       - baseline fit improvement
  
* Discussions(2): long term plan
   - Possibility to unify ASAP - CASA as a single package to use for CASS/ALMA/..
   - Build issues?  
   - (supporting OSes)
   - Scantable vs Measurement Set ("kick-off" discussion)
     - Current usages of scantable 
     - Requirements for CASS/CASA
     - Measurement Set def. 2.0 
        - Is it sufficient to store single dish data from relevant telescopes (AT, ALMA, Nobeyama), do we need to modify?
     - data accessing speed (are there any issues or differences between scantable and MS?)
     - What modifications are needed in order to migrate to MS?
   - Others