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Software Plan of Record

Cycle 2 2006 (February 16 - March 31, 2006)


Releases this Cycle:

Weeks

  • Week 1 2/20 - 2/24 (Monday Holiday)
  • Week 2 2/27 - 3/3
  • Week 3 3/6 - 3/10
  • Week 4 3/13 - 3/17
  • Week 5 3/20 - 3/24
  • Week 6 3/27 - 3/31

Who's in the Box?
  • Melinda - 100% Penn Array
  • Joe - Respond to any issues from infrastructure changes, otherwise Penn Array 100%
  • Ray - Respond to any issues from infrastructure changes, otherwise Zspectrometer Mgr 100%
  • Amy - 30% GFM/CCB, 70% Quality App
  • Bob - 70% Data (GBTIDL v2), 30% Quality App
  • Paul - 100% Data *Data Rate/JPG issue for Spectral Line

Key for the "Status" column:

  • DONE (%Y%) means the task has been successfully completed
  • MOVED TO... (%M%) means the task has been completed and is awaiting integration tests
  • PICK (%S%) means the task has been completed and is awaiting sponsor tests
  • ALERT! (%X%) means the task will not be completed this cycle, but was expected to be completed
  • ok means that the task is not yet complete or ready for tests, but NMR has evaluted results & progress is clearly on track

1. Operational/Scientific Support Items Completed During C1 2006


2. Commitments

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

Task Info/MR Lead Sponsor,Team Notes Status
Monitor Physical Infrastructure Upgrades PhysicalInfrastructureC82005, SystemPortTo26, RHE4 System Problems RamonCreager, JoeBrandt Computing Division Minor directory changes needed for spectrometer debugging applications. DONE
Stop & Abort for Pulsar Observations ModificationRequest2C106 MarkClark ScottRansom, RamonCreager, AmyShelton   DONE
GBTIDLv2.0 w/Flagging on ~TBD N/A BobGarwood NicoleRadziwill, JimBraatz See IDLPlanUpdate. On Track. Freezing code in ~1 week. DONE
Write LFCs to Antenna FITS Header ModificationRequest2C206 JoeBrandt DanaBalser   DONE
Two Antenna FITS Issues ModificationRequest3C206 JoeBrandt DanaBalser Patched into 6.1. DONE
Zspectrometer Manager ZpectProject, ZpectSoftwareDevelopment RamonCreager KarenONeil See status page. ok
Test Spectrometer Sleuthing TestSpectrometer RamonCreager NicoleRadziwill I have added a main features comparison between the GBT Spectrometer and the Lab Spectrometer. Paul has added more information on the data reduction needs of the users of the Lab Spectrometer DONE
GFM for CCB ModificationRequest16C705 AmyShelton BrianMason, NicoleRadziwill MR written, sponsor approved, CCC approved. Ready for sponsor testing in gfm-test. DONE
Quality App ModificationRequest12C705 AmyShelton NicoleRadziwill, RonDuPlain We have a design in place and are ironing out minor details. Our current efforts are focused on getting some of the well-defined classes implemented and on defining a quality report format. ok
Penn Array FITS Header Keywords ModificationRequest2C505 MelindaMello BrianMason, JoeBrandt Started preparations for running PAR in the simulator environment under Astrid. Prepared release of PAR/IRC code for NASA debugging. DONE
CCB/Ka Commissioning Support CcbSoftwareCleanup MarkClark BrianMason, MelindaMello One outstanding task for control software: prevent ccb server from attempting to send monitor data in Standby (See MR). DONE
Add Motor Rack Control Functions ModificationRequest1C106 JoeBrandt RogerNorrod, AmyShelton Ready for sponsor testing. Plan to test with electronics on second maintenance day next week. Sponsor testing must happen on a maintenance day, so that compressors and valves can be monitored in person. PICK
Create spectrometer integration-level plot server and client. N/A PaulMarganian AmyShelton Deferred until next cycle. Infrastructure (plotserver, spectralplotter daemons) released, but not changes to GFM. ALERT!


3. Refactored Code

Description Tests Submitter Notes Status
Fix polarity and observing frequency in gbtstatus ModificationRequest4C206 Patched into 6.1, no tests necessary. MelindaMello   DONE
Fixed problem with selecting first SB in turtle edit panel SB list Patched into 6.1, no tests necessary. AmyShelton   DONE
Fixed validation problem with GetCurrentLocation. Patched into 6.1, no tests necessary. AmyShelton GetCurrentLocation now returns Location([user-specified CM], 0.0, 0.0) during validation. DONE
Fixed unconditional activation of children in Control library Config tool successfully activates newly selected devices MarkClark   DONE
Refactored FitsIO library to fully encapsulate and handle all device FITS generation No change in production or resulting FITS files on the telescope. Programs which use the telescope FITS files as input should work as before including those which read the FITS files integration per integration.   Fixed a problem that was causing the Spectrometer to crash, because of an incorrect copy constructor in the FitsIO class. DONE
Turtle uses a new config_tool object when the project is changed Everytime a new config_tool object is created, a trace message is sent. You can run a SB under one project. Then switch projects and run another SB. You should see a Trace message saying that a new config_tool object has been created. AmyShelton   DONE
Subtract as well as add Offsets The classes Location and Offset redefine add to allow the adding of offets to offsets or locations, but not sub. Oversight discovered by RonMaddalena. In observing scripts one should be able to do: offset1 = offset2 - offset3 and location1 = location2 - offset. MarkClark   DONE
Unneeded use of future. Use of yield does not require calls to future after 2.3.4 in Python. Map scan types should work correctly. MarkClark   DONE
Bug in TimeStamp Method generate_FITS_date_time_string() was losing a minute when the time was on a minute boundary. Run a scan with a specified start time on a minute boundary (zero seconds) and check if the start time is properly entered into the scan log. MarkClark   DONE
Argument type checking in scan types In an attempt to catch more user erros in validation, astrid checks the data types for all the arguments to scan types. Also, more explanatory error messages are being generated. No change in behavior should be seen except in the errors generated. MarkClark   DONE
online sdfits filler New functionality was needed for next GBTIDL release (flag files created in writable directory, using sym links.) In addition, the online filler was re-implemented using the new state engine API, and placed in gbt/daemon. PaulMarganian   DONE

4. Background Tasks

Project TASK MR Team Notes Status
SoftwareCME Correct boom deploy/retract under M&C control BoomDeployRetractProblem? JasonRay, JoeBrandt, MelindaMello Code works, but SCU rejects reset command. Needs investigation with electronics support.  
SoftwareCME Change Data Directory for Pulsar Observations ModificationRequest5C206 MarkClark, ScottRansom, RamonCreager   DONE
SoftwareCME Remove Scan Duration Default ModificationRequest2C805 MarkClark, KarenONeil, AmyShelton   DONE
SoftwareCME Add Ability to understand offsets within Slew() ModificationRequest5C805 MarkClark, KarenONeil, AmyShelton   DONE
SoftwareCME Create validation output window in Edit tab of Observation Management application ModificationRequest6C206 AmyShelton, MarkClark, KarenONeil, FrankGhigo   DONE

5. Miscellaneous

-- NicoleRadziwill - 14 Feb 2006

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