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

9:30 - 12:00

• welcome/opening remarks
• overview and current status of ASAP
  • Status of ASAP and ASAP development at CASS - Malte
  • CASA-ASAP overview - Takeshi
  • CASA-ASAP specific functionality - Takeshi/Kana
  • Recent merging of ASAP3.0 to alma branch - Kana

12:00 - 13:00 lunch break

13:00 - 15:00

• make a plan for the merging work sessions goals

• set goals for the discussion on planning for next one year (make some bullet points,update this wiki page,etc)

15:00 - 15:15 coffee break/email break

15:15 - 17:00

• set goals for the discussion on long term planning

(make some bullet points,update this wiki page,etc)

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Jul 29-30 and Aug 2-5
9:00 - 17:00 -ish

(lead: Malte) 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 more testing

Jul 30
9:00 - 10:00 Skype-con with Nick

Aug 5
wrap-up session for the merge

• Identify unfinished/remaining development, if any and assign

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Aug 6
9:00 - 17:00
Discussions(1): near-term plan on ASAP development coordination

• Future merge (alma branch->trunk) planning
  • comments from previous 'merge' experiences - Kana?
  • how frequent should we schedule merge? (coordinating with release schedules
  • procedure
  • tests
• Development plans (for CASA, CASS?)

some of them may be covered on the first day but may be useful to give some summary here, particularly on filler(s), plotter, flagging)

• Proposal of moving some python codes to C++ - Wataru

• Dinner ?

Aug 7
9:00 - 17:00
Discussions(2): long-term plan(s)

• Possibility to unify ASAP - CASA as a single package to use for CASS/ALMA?
  • Build issues?
  • supporting OSes
  • plotter
• 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? i.e. 'flat table' vs more complex table structure)
    • need some testing with prototype
    • What modifications are needed in order to migrate to MS?
• Others