Developer Meetings

2010 Developer Meeting

July 28 - August 7, 2010 at NAOJ (Mitaka, Tokyo)

Goals

• merge the asap trunk and alma branches
• create development plan which includes CASS and ALMA
• Document design
• Improve testing

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)

Jul 28
Overview

• planning sessions for the rest of the meeting to set goals

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Jul 29-30 and Aug 2-5
ASAP merge (alma branch -> trunk of ATNF ASAP svn)

• 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)
• add tests

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Aug 6-7
Discussions(1): near-term plan on ASAP development 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(s)

• 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