Developer Meetings

2010 Developer Meeting

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

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)

[Following sessions will be scheduled on ~last half of the second week]

• Discussions(1): near term (~1yr?) ASAP coordination
  • Future merge (alma branch->trunk) planning - how often? procedures
    • consideration: 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's, ALMA), do we need to modify?
    • What modifications are needed for scantable to MS migration?
  • Others

Goals

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