Developer Meetings

2010 Developer Meeting

(tentative) 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
• ...

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 probably be scheduled on Aug 6-7]

• 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