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Software Plan of Record

Cycle 1 2007 (January 1 - February 15, 2007)

• 1. Operational/User Support Items Completed During C1 2007
• 2. Commitments
• 3. CM&E
• 4. Background Tasks
• 5. Miscellaneous

1. Operational/User Support Items Completed During C1 2007

For each support item, please list the amount of effort involved as either: low, medium, or high. Guidelines for these rankings are as follows:

• low - Things that take less than two hours.
• medium - Things that take more than two hours, but less than eight hours.
• high - Things that take more than eight hours.

If multiple people are involved in an item, please list it only once. Effort estimates should reflect total time elapsed, i.e. how long did it take to fix the problem start to finish - not the sum total of each person's time.

• date - who - what - how long? (low, medium, high)
• 2 Jan 2007 - MelindaMello- Config tool reported by TM as not configuring properly for SpectralProcessor? Configurations. medium
• 4 Jan 2007 - MarkClark - Observer's peaks were failing because their custom configuration wasn not working. Referred to FrankGhigo - low
• 8 Jan 2007 - PaulMarganian - User's GFM stopped plotting data, but data looked fine in GBTIDL. Got user back up by running separate instance of gfm, and adviced restarting astrid when convinient. low
• 10 Jan 2007 - JoeBrandt - Active Surface aborting due to illegal values. Reset Zernike model and errors reset. low
• 10 Jan 2007 - PaulMarganian - Observer's GFM was giving back tracebacks occasionally, and Operator's GFM was not displaying any plots at all. low
• 12 Jan 2007 - BobGarwood - Respond to user's questions about "dish" usage. low
• 12 Jan 2007 - PaulMarganian, JoeBrandt - Operator's GFM continually refused to bring up any plots. Restarted Grail. low
• 16 Jan 2007 - PaulMarganian, RonGrider - looked into failures in GFM processing of old Ka-DCR data for Brian Mason. low
• 16 Jan 2007 - MelindaMello, JoeBrandt - Par support -phone call from penn concerning serial port problem. low
• 16 Jan 2007 - MelindaMello RonGrider MikeMcCarty - looked into cabling file error that caused ifpack pickler/configuratin failures on PF2. low
• 18 Jan 2007 - JoeBrandt - Looked into ScanCoordinator core dump. low
• 18 Jan 2007 - MelindaMello User error in config script low
• 19 Jan 2007 - MelindaMello, MarkClark - Spigot failures from Astrid because mulitple invocations of spigot_takedata on spigot2. low
• 22 Jan 2007 - MelindaMello - Configuration Spigot failures due to user error in keywords. low
• 22 Jan 2007 - BobGarwood - Investigate and fix bug in dish calibration reported by GBT user. low
• 26 Jan 2007 - MarkClark - Refreshed operator's memory how to restart spectral processor's SBCs. low
• 01 Feb 2007 - PaulMarganian - questions on Inlcinometer data from PTCS group. low
• 02 Feb 2007 - MelindaMello - questions concerning a FCamillo configuration script and the resulting M&C configuration low
• 06 Feb 2007 - PaulMarganian - looking into Inclinometer Nans for PTCS group. high
• 07 Feb 2007 - JoeBrandt - Sampler2log writing headers and no data. The processes were running on belinda (leftover from testing). Unable to see why data was not being written. Entered bug in Jira. low
• 09 Feb 2007 - PaulMarganian - confusion over Ka rcvr labeling in sdfits/gbtidl. low
• 12 Feb 2007 - MikeMcCarty - Copied llama to Tony Remijan's external hard drive last Friday (2/9). Used that llama to build and install sparrow on his machine in CV so that he can run sdfits. low
• 14 Feb 2007 - PaulMarganian - /home/sdfits filled up to 65 Gigs and online sdfits filler failed. low
• 15 Feb 2007 - JoeBrandt, MarkClark - Astrid failing on some machines, e.g. fourier and euclid. Need try/except for checking device file. low

2. Commitments

The default/unsorted state reflects priority order for this cycle.

Task	Info/MR	Lead	Sponsor,Team	Notes	Status
Zpectrometer Commissioning Support	N/A	RamonCreager, BobGarwood	AmyShelton
Dynamic Scheduling Software	Dynamic Web	AmyShelton	MelindaMello, PaulMarganian, MarkClark	Amy and Paul are still working on a requirements document. Paul and Mike described opportunities for common ground between BOS and DSS.	ok
Modify SDFITS and aips++ to correctly process Spectrometer cross-polarization data	ModificationRequest2C706	BobGarwood	BrianMason, KarenONeil, PaulMarganian	I think this is done apart from the documentation portion (which we've all agreed won't stop this from being released).
SDFits Changes - Add target position and HIGH_CAL keywords to sdfits and other requested sdfits changes	ModificationRequest3C706	BobGarwood	KarenONeil, PaulMarganian	Done except for documentation. Failure to completely document sdfits should not delay release of these changes.
GBTIDL Changes necessary in support of related sdfits tool changes	ModificationRequest8C706	BobGarwood	KarenONeil, PaulMarganian	Done. Needs user testing.
Change scaling for the Autocorrelation Spectra in the Spectrometer	ModificationRequest6C706	BobGarwood	KarenONeil, PaulMarganian
Change GO fits file so that RA is in degrees	ModificationRequest15C705	PaulMarganian	KarenONeil, BobGarwood
Modify Tsys Calculation for the GFM Spectral Line Plugin	ModificationRequest4C107	BobGarwood	JimBraatz, PaulMarganian
SCCU Servo Changes	ModificationRequest1C806	JoeBrandt	JohnFord	Although the code is working, we have found that commanded velocity spikes occur during normal observing. To date this has not been a problem since the hardware filters out the spikes. However with the hardware modifications coupled with this MR, the spikes will corrupt the intended operation of the friction compensation. John is working on modeling a different methods of deriving the velocity commands. Richard signed for CCC.	ok
Upgrade PTCS Pointing Model Pre-Processing Software	ModificationRequest5C706	RonGrider	FrankGhigo, JoeBrandt	Refactored GFM and DEAP code appear to have successfully passed through second integration test. Ready for sponsor testing, but estimate sponsor testing will not be complete by release date. Re-examining comparative results from old glish code and new prepoint app in light of several analysis requests by K. Constantikes.
Complete Pointing Processing Description Memo	Should become PTCS/PN/23 - Add link to document	JoeBrandt	RichardPrestage	No progress.
Extract Sampler Information from Log Files & Create Antenna Characterization Database	ModificationRequest3C107	JoeBrandt	RichardPrestage, RonGrider	Putting the finishing touches on releaseable version.
General PTCS Support	N/A	N/A	RichardPrestage, JohnFord
Configuration Tool: Modify Default IF Target Levels	ModificationRequest1C107	MelindaMello	JimBraatz
Configuration Tool: Default Value Changes	ModificationRequest4C806	MelindaMello	JimBraatz
Business Office System	BusinessOfficeSystem	PaulMarganian	AmyShelton, MikeMcCarty	Meeting held on Jan 10 - seemed to go well. Waiting for feedback on who sponsors will be before further work on MRs listed below. Creating UML Requirments Diagrams. Discussing overlaps with Dynamic Scheduling. Moving forward with some aspects of design. Designing Contact Management system to shared by other systems. Made progress with Transactions requirements (examples document created). GB sponsors are looking at MRs, AOC sponsors have been notified, see more below. Mike is looking into database overlaps between GB needs and PST/Nrao User databases. Reqs. analysis UML docs taking shape. DB design progress for certain aspects. Rushing to get all MRs written before Paul goes on leave.	ok
Assist CarlBignell in migrating from dbase to MySQL	SchedulingSoftware	MikeMcCarty	CarlBignell	No update.	ok
Preventive Maintenance	N/A	AmyShelton	MarkClark, MelindaMello, PaulMarganian, BobGarwood	Choose your own items and list your changes under refactored code. PRM - have updated the refactored code section with old JIRA items, and finished one this week.	ok
Attend Penn Array Meeting in Philadelphia	N/A	JoeBrandt	BrianMason
Update Internal Software Documentation	SoftwareDocs	AmyShelton	RonGrider, MikeMcCarty	No update.	ok
Update LSFS documentation per discussions with Tim Robishaw	ScanTypes	MarkClark	Tim Robishaw	Completed excepted for documentation describing change for 7.1 will be delayed until the release. JimBraatz has agreed to at least check whether the new delta frequencies are being used during regressions testing, though real testing will require the polarization guys.
Software R&D	add links here	RamonCreager	AmyShelton, MikeMcCarty
Integration Testing	IntegrationReleaseC12007	RamonCreager, MikeMcCarty	all	See wiki for details.
BOS - User Management	ModificationRequest5C107	MikeMcCarty, PaulMarganian, AmyShelton		Writing MR based off Project Charter. (mostly requirements section). Met with Becky to discuss requirements section.	ok
BOS - Database Migration	ModificationRequest6C107	MikeMcCarty, PaulMarganian, AmyShelton		Writing MR based off Project Charter. (mostly requirements section)	ok
BOS - Reservation Management	ModificationRequest7C107	MikeMcCarty, PaulMarganian, AmyShelton		Writing MR based off Project Charter. (mostly requirements section). Sponsors have approved requirements! Have approved method for filling out testing section.	ok
BOS - Document Management	ModificationRequest8C107	MikeMcCarty, PaulMarganian, AmyShelton		Documents include Invoices, Journal Entries, and Receipts. Writing MR based off Project Charter. (mostly requirements section). Chrisitine P. is done with requirments. Waiting on Lisa, who has provided first draft of examples, none of which have serious conflicts with present GB requirements.	ok
Investigate & Fix Cause of Astrid Hang-ups	ModificationRequest9C706	MarkClark	JimBraatz, JoeBrandt	Completed. Reminder: there is no guarantee that because we found and removed causes of astrid hanging that we have solved THE problem since we do not know what the the primary mover in production mode; only a varitiety of observing over days will start to answer this question. One additional hangup discovered during integration. Fixed.
BOS - Meta MR linking other MRs and other issues	ModificationRequest9C107	MikeMcCarty, PaulMarganian, AmyShelton		Writing MR. This MR is new and was recently updated a few days ago. Waiting for sponsors. Still no progrss on this MR.	ok
Fix SCCU Year Handling	ModificationRequest11C107	JoeBrandt	JohnFord
Add VLBA_DAR to legal multi backend modes in the config tool	ModificationRequest12C107	MelindaMello	FrankGhigo

3. CM&E

Description	Tests	Submitter	Notes	Status
Complete Logview and Deploy	LogviewTests	MarkClark	Did not get to any of the optional tasks.
JIRA GBT-37	The factor of 0.99 is now being divided instead of multiplied. GBTIDL unit tests updated.	BobGarwood	Application of rear-spillover in conversion of Ta to Ta* was being done incorrectly. This was pointed out by Jim over the x-mas break. This behavior now matches Jim's calibration memo. Other GBTIDL documentation may need to be udated.
JIRA GBT-38	GBTIDL unit tests still pass, new unit test for trackfdnum=1 added for getnod and getbs.	BobGarwood	fdnum keyword to getnod and getbs is confusing (different usage from fdnum in other calibration code). Changed to trackfdnum to make it clearer what this is. The quick reference still needs to be updated (possibly also other documentation).
JIRA GBT-22	/home/sdfits has less then a months worth of log files there, more then a month since this fix was patched in.	PaulMarganian	/home/sdfits was getting clutered with project_name.log files, so clean up daemon was modified to clean these up as well. /home/sdfits must be cleaned up in order to keep it well below it's 65 Gig limit.
JIRA GBT-15	GFM behaves sanely in simulator now. Should be a good enough test, since this behaviour (see note) has never been seen with production system.	PaulMarganian	In the simulator, backend would produce all zeros for LAGS, producing an array of all NaNs? for the FFT - GFM would fail when it tried to plot this FFT.
JIRA GBT-7	unit tests contain the original data set that illustrated the problem. Also created several new unit tests to make sure that sdfits and GFM center frequencies agree. Bug is fixed, but none of the refactoring or documentation recommendations in JIRA entry have been started.	PaulMarganian	GFM produces incorrect frequency axis at times. This comes from error in API used by GFM - center frequency is derived from IF Manager instead of the Spectrometer.
JIRA GBT-39	* full test should wait for integration/regression tests, where all systems are running. First tests can also happen on maintanence day. * move all appropriate .proc files move /home/sparrow/bin out of the way * make sure all processes run at system startup * source /home/gbt/gbt.bash, type 'config_too'.	PaulMarganian	* most of the Sparrow executables and daemons are setup in a consistent manner - but there are some exceptions and these need to be conformed; most noteably those execs that use /home/sparrow/bin. * Also, there should be a wiki page describing how to set these up so that we can capture this info: http://wiki.gb.nrao.edu/bin/view/Knowledge/BuildingSparrowExecutables * resolve what to do with /home/sparrow/bin (kill it?) * update windProc.conf, earthProc.conf, datacaptureProc.conf
astrid console import problem	click the "console" tab in the lower frame. A message should appear in the frame saying that the configuration and balance apis were loaded sucessfully.	MelindaMello
JIRA GBT-16	* lots of new unit tests exist in sparrow/api for supporting IF Numbers * need explicit tests to compare sdfits and gfm IF number results.	PaulMarganian	infrastructure exists for giving sdfits IF nums, but GFM and sdfits puts them in different orders.
JIRA GBT-42	after version switch, make sure these aren't running on earth and wind via 'top' and 'Task Master'. Make sure to tell the operators!	PaulMarganian	keep the plotserver and spectralplotter daemons from getting run on by Task Master. These are daemons for supporting the GFM server/client work done a year ago, but that work is not scheduled to be completed soon, and these have been running for a year for no purpose.
Add Quadrant Detector application to Astrid	In Astrid, select the File menu and then select Quadrant Detector from the list of candidate windows to open. The Quadrant Detector panel should appear as a tab and be populated with various sampler values as well as updating plots. These tests are passive and can be done in parallel.	AmyShelton
JIRA GBT-43	Fill some data. Note size of index file. Refill the same data. The index file should be the same size. Use -append to add a scan. The index file should grow.	BobGarwood	Index files are now deleted if they already exist unless -append is also specified.
JIRA GBT-51	Try using the tcal keyword with any of the GBTIDL calibration routines and verify that !g.s[0].mean_tcal equals the value you supplied for tcal after the routine finishes.	BobGarwood	mean_tcal in the result is now being set appropriately.
SourceForge GBTIDL #1644760	Try a selection involving scan number and some other field where you know the first scan number will not be selected but at least one other scan number in the selection will also match the other field.	BobGarwood	Fixed
JIRA GBT-45	use 'dirin' on a directory with more then one fits file, make sure that all index files got created, and note creation times. Then use 'dirin, /new_index, and check times to make sure ALL index files were recreated.	PaulMarganian	Fixed
JIRA GBT-53	Import an observing script. Choose a new directory in the directory dialog. Make sure that the resulting file dialog shows files in the directory specified in the previous dialog.	AmyShelton	Fixed.
Turtle: Added new staff to those who can see SB simulate button.	The new users should see the simulate button.	AmyShelton	Fixed.
GBTIDL improved default ap_eff values	The new ap_eff values should be used	JimBraatz	Done.
Resolved Incorrect error message on Ka Rcvr	Ron reported that in TP mode that an error message (85.0.0.17) "Monitored phase switches are different..." was asserted, yet all seemed well. The manager was making an incorrect assumption about the sense of the mcb bits, which has been fixed.	JoeBrandt	Monitored phase bits now interpreted correctly.

4. Background Tasks

5. Miscellaneous