Software Plan of Record

Cycle 3 2006 (April 3 - May 12, 2006)

Weeks

Week 1 4/3 - 4/7
Week 2 4/10 - 4/14
Week 3 4/17 - 4/21
Week 4 4/24 - 4/28
Week 5 5/1 - 5/5
Week 6 5/8 - 5/12

Release date for GBTIDL: May 17

Release date for M&C/Sparrow: May 17

Who's in the Box?

Melinda - 20% Observing Software, 30% CM&E, 50% Penn Array
Joe - 10% Weather, 40% PTCS, 50% Penn Array
Ray - 20% Integration Testing, 80% Zspectrometer Manager
Amy - 10% Zpectrometer, 10% Dynamic Scheduling, 10% Weather Manager, 20% Observing Software, 50% Management
Bob - 10% Quality App (if needed), 90% Data
Paul - 15% Data, 85% Support Carl & Reservation System
Mark - 100% Astrid/CCB/Ka Support

Key for the "Status" column:

(%Y%) means the task has been successfully completed
(%M%) means the task has been completed and is awaiting integration tests
(%S%) means the task has been completed and is awaiting sponsor tests
(%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 ALS has evaluated results & progress is clearly on track

1. Operational/Scientific Support Items Completed During C3 2006

date - who - what - why
04 Apr 2006 - RamonCreager - Support for spigot2 upgrade from 2.4 kernel to 2.6.
06 Apr 2006 - MarkClark - Archivist not working - Failure to initialize data members in FitsIO library
06 Apr 2006 - AmyShelton - Fixed memory leak in CCB API
06 Apr 2006 - AmyShelton - Fixed string representation issue with Locations in Scheduling Blocks
09 Apr 2006 - JoeBrandt - Weather and sitetime failure, debugging and recovery. (Bad power supply)
10 Apr 2006 - JoeBrandt, RamonCreager, AmyShelton - Recovery from power failure
16 Apr 2006 - JoeBrandt - PF1 Power supply failure
20 Apr 2006 - JoeBrandt - Latency investigations
20 Apr 2006 - JoeBrandt - DCR problems
24 Apr 2006 - PaulMarganian - Supporting user attempting exporting GBTIDL data to CLASS via ASCII files (.5 hours)
25 Apr 2006 - MelindaMello - CCB inop because of bad power supply (3 hours)
2 May 2006 - AmyShelton - Fixed cause of exception error in turtle client (~1 hour)
2 May 2006 - MarkClark, AmyShelton, JoeBrandt - Peak scans failing because of bad IRIG in timing center (1.5 hours)
2 May 2006 - MelindaMello - Dana had questions concerning why configurations failed (see obs report) (1)
2 May 2006 - PaulMarganian - further user support for GBTIDL and CLASS. (.5 hours)
2 May 2006 - JoeBrandt - gbtdata kernel crash recovery (.75 hours)
3 May 2006 - MelindaMello, MarkClark, RamonCreager - Bcpm manager crashed every time GRAIL (not 100% sure of CLEO) communication occurred (1.5)
3 May 2006 - MelindaMello - BCPM configurations with the Q-band receiver questions and also gbtstatus center freq issue with q-band receiver (1.5)
3 May 2006 - MelindaMello - BCPM configurations with the Q-band receiver questions and also gbtstatus center freq issue with q-band receiver (2)
3 May 2006 - MelindaMello - Penn array Lab support ??? Does this count?? Archiver not working with their system, but I can't duplicate the problem here.(1)
4 May 2006 - MarkClark - Antenna failure to write to assigned project directory. Restarting ScanCoordinator corrected it. (.5)
5 May 2006 - MarkClark - Astrid failed to initiate because of entry to wrong Python installation in user's PYTHONPATH environment variable. (.5)
7 May 2006 - MarkClark - Astrid failed to initiate because of entry to wrong Python installation in user's PYTHONPATH environment variable. (.5)
7 May 2006 - MarkClark - Change in scheduling required new project identifier. (.5)
8 May 2006 - JoeBrandt - Revise and rehost weather information update mechanisms. (2)
9 May 2006 - MelindaMello - Frequency out of range due to velocities in the catalog (.5)
10 May 2006 - PaulMarganian - Looked into problem with GFM Spectral Line and Spectral Processor (.5)

2. Commitments

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

Task	Info/MR	Lead	Sponsor,Team	Notes
GBTIDLv2.0 w/Flagging on ~TBD	N/A	BobGarwood	NicoleRadziwill, JimBraatz	See IDLPlanUpdate. Release now planned to align with M&C version 6.3.
Add Motor Rack Control Functions	ModificationRequest1C106	JoeBrandt	RogerNorrod, AmyShelton	Patched into 6.2
Attend Observing Software Meeting in Edinburgh	N/A	AmyShelton	MelindaMello	Attended meeting.
Attend Zpectrometer Meeting	ZpectProject	KarenONeil	AmyShelton, RamonCreager	Scheduled for April 14. Agenda available at ZpectMeeting3 Another meeting is scheduled for May 15. Agenda available at ZpectMeeting4
Complete Zspectrometer Manager	ModificationRequest1C306	RamonCreager	KarenONeil, AmyShelton	See status page. Also see: ZpectProject, ZpectSoftwareDevelopment
Resolve Offset Nomenclature Ambiguities in Scheduling Blocks	ModificationRequest13C306	MarkClark	KarenONeil, AmyShelton	Testing on May 10 fell short, trying again on May 11.
Add LST Capabilities to Scheduling Blocks	ModificationRequest14C306	MarkClark	FrankGhigo, AmyShelton	Implementation completed except for Horizon's ability to accept solar system objects as a location for GetRise and GetSet.
Allow Saving of Invalid Scheduling Blocks	ModificationRequest4C805	MarkClark	KarenONeil, AmyShelton	MR written and approved.
Integrate F. Schwab's Antenna Trajectory Algorithm & Test	ModificationRequest2C306	JoeBrandt	JohnFord, MelindaMello	Received preliminary code from Fred. Unit test created. Task moved to next cycle.
Upgrade Weather1 Manager	ModificationRequest3C306	AmyShelton	JasonRay, JoeBrandt
Add Weather1 as a Choice for Refraction Corrections in Antenna	ModificationRequest4C306	JoeBrandt	RonMaddalena, AmyShelton
Integrate Lab Spectrometer into SDFITS/GBTIDL.	ModificationRequest5C306	PaulMarganian	RonMaddalena	Ready for sponsor testing.
Implement Single Factor Dynamic Scheduling	ModificationRequest6C306?	AmyShelton	NicoleRadziwill, MarkClark	Will not complete this cycle.
GBTIDL Support for Toney's Investigation into Spectrometer Non-linearity Issues	IDLPlanUpdate	BobGarwood	ToneyMinter
Add Inputs For Van Vleck Sampler Levels and DC Offsets To SDFITS	ModificationRequest7C306	PaulMarganian	ToneyMinter
Penn Array Commissioning Support	PennArrayReceiverSoftwareCleanup?	MelindaMello	BrianMason, JoeBrandt
CCB/Ka Commissioning Support	CcbSoftwareCleanup	MarkClark	BrianMason, MelindaMello	Remaining issues are the sponsor's.
Support Incremental Network Upgrades	N/A	AmyShelton	ChrisClark, All
Integration Tests	N/A	RamonCreager	All
Create NRAO-wide reservation system.	N/A	PaulMarganian	NicoleRadziwill, CarlBignell	Ready for alpha tests. See also ReservationsStageOne.
Antenna rehosted on Linux & deployed	ModificationRequest8C306	JoeBrandt	JohnFord, MelindaMello	Updated MR with results of tests comparing results between old and new systems. Updated FITS documentation.

3. Refactored Code

Description	Tests	Submitter	Notes
Fixed sign bug in Location representation	Create the following Location object: Location("Encoder", "00:02:23", "-00:20:41") and then print it. The printout should read: Encoder @ (-00:02:23.00, -00:20:41.00) Before the change it would have read: Encoder @ (00:02:23.00, 00:20:41.00)	AmyShelton	Patched into 6.2
Modified cfitsio SWIG interface	SWIG directives for getting column information was failing in cases of retrieving the column name. This specific SWIG directive was returned to the previous definition. All access to FITS files should work as previsously implemented. Confirmed for unit tests.	MarkClark
Install the config tool in /python/telescope/gbt/config	from linux prompt: type config_tool. Run configuration of testers choice. No import errors etc should occur. Run an astrid script that contains a configuration and verify that no error occur.	MelindaMello	Turtle should now be able to import the config tool from telescope.gbt This should alleviate the need for 2 copies of the config tool
Fixed memory leak in CCB API	There were calls to the `tolist` function of Numeric in CCBData which seems to generate a memory leak. I removed those and went a different way using numarray.	AmyShelton	Patched into 6.2
Added some memory cleanup to GFM Continuum plugin	Added some extra cleanup when plots and options are regenerated.	AmyShelton	Patched into 6.2
Patched Sysload script	Revised Sysload script to properly mount directories. This was causing problems with active surface booting.	JoeBrandt	Patched into both 6.2 and 6.3

4. Background Tasks

Task	MR	Team	Notes
Correct boom deploy/retract under M&C control	BoomDeployRetractProblem?	JasonRay, JoeBrandt, MelindaMello	Code works, but SCU rejects reset command. Needs investigation with electronics support.
Create Penn Array Manager	ModificationRequest15C306	BrianMason, MelindaMello, JoeBrandt
Create spectrometer integration-level plot server and client.	N/A	PaulMarganian, AmyShelton
Create Linux Quadrant Detector Manager	ModificationRequest9C306	JasonRay, RamonCreager	Writing MR. Implementation scheduled for C4 2006. Ray and I have a meeting on May 10 to discuss the MR with Jason and John.
Implement CCB Self-Test	ModificationRequest10C306	BrianMason, MarkClark	Completed FITS CCB comparison code.
Add Setting of Spectral Processor Parameter, taper, to the Configuration Tool	ModificationRequest11C306	KarenONeil, MelindaMello	Ready for integration testing.
Add Peak for Daytime High Frequency Observing	ModificationRequest12C306	DanaBalser, MarkClark	Tabled indefinitely
GFM Return Code in Astrid	ModificationRequest17C705	KarenONeil, MarkClark	Talk to sponsor before starting!
Quality App	ModificationRequest12C705	NicoleRadziwill, AmyShelton, RonDuPlain	We have a design in place and are ironing out details.

5. Miscellaneous

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