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

Jul 28(ALMA building, Room 307)

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

9:30 - 12:00

• welcome/opening remarks - Tak + George?
• overview and current status of ASAP
  • Status of ASAP and ASAP development at CASS - Malte
  • CASA-ASAP overview (including requirements, CASA-ASAP specific functionality)​ - Takeshi
  • Recent merging of ASAP3.0 to alma branch - Kana

12:00 - 13:00 lunch break

13:00 - 15:00

• set goals and make a plan for the merging work sessions

• 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/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 (in the CASA developers' office, "Shigokan" building)

9:00 - 17:00 -ish

ASAP merge (alma branch -> trunk of ATNF ASAP svn) + code sprints (lead: Malte)

• Starting point would be alma branch updated recently by Kana
• include few more updates from CASA
• Resolve any conflicts, duplicated features
• (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(+Juergen?)

Aug 5

wrap-up session for the merge

• Identify unfinished/remaining development items, if any and assign them
• work on documentation

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Aug 6(ALMA building, Room 109)

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

• 9:00-10:00 Skype-con with Nick(+Juergen?)

• 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) - reference: Takeshi's presentation​

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

• Dinner ?

Aug 7(ALMA building, Room 307)

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)
  • Presentation by Takeshi
  • some discussion points:
    • 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