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Software Plan of Record

Cycle 4 2004 (May 17 - June 30)

1. Operational/Scientific Support Items Completed During C4 2004

• Date - Who - Description
• 7/10/2004 - PRM - Change in Model for Dynamic Corrections due to faulty temperature sensor.

2. Commitments

Project	TASK	MR	Sponsor	Lead	Checker	Status/Notes	Done
CCB	Attend CCB Meeting on 5/17-5/18	N/A	BrianMason	MelindaMello	N/A
CCB	Common MM Downconverter	ModificationRequest1C404, CommonMMCodeReviewFeb04?	RogerNorrod	PaulMarganian	MelindaMello	Sponsor Tested & Checker Checked!
Penn Array	Complete JNI GPIB Interface	ModificationRequest3C304	BrianMason	MelindaMello	???	being checked 6/17
Wideband Spectrometer	Participate in ~3 days of discussions	N/A	JohnFord	JoeBrandt	N/A	Discussions planned for 6/10-6/11
PTCS	Patch/Improve Trajectory Processing	ModificationRequest2C404	RichardPrestage	JoeBrandt	RamonCreager	See status
PTCS	Complete Antenna Characterization Robustness Tasks	ModificationRequest11C304	RichardPrestage	PaulMarganian		A.C. performaned well this cycle. See status
PTCS	Inclinometer Manager - Test & Iterate	ModificationRequest5C304	KimConstantikes	PaulMarganian		MR approved. Production Running. Waiting for next iteration requirements.
PTCS	Accelerometer Manager - Test & Iterate	ModificationRequest6C304	KimConstantikes	RamonCreager		See status
PTCS	Health Monitor for Temperature Sensors	ModificationRequest6C404	KimConstantikes	PaulMarganian	???	Sponsor Approved. Running daily.
PTCS	GFM Enhancements for C4	GbtFitsMonitorContinuumRequests	RichardPrestage	AmyShelton	EricSessoms	Items 8, 16, 18, and 19 are completed and sponsor-approved in gfm-test. Item 12 is in gfm-test and awaiting sponsor approval. All items are considered complete for this cycle per Richard. gfm-test has been moved to production for 4.4 and awaits regression testing. Release Notes for 4.4 are now available.
PTCS	Archivist Reliability Issues	ModificationRequest3C404	RichardPrestage	RamonCreager	JoeBrandt	See status
Data	Standard Observing Modes Document Complete	StandardObservingModes	RonMaddalena	JimBraatz	NicoleRadziwill	Only needs some polishing on oddball modes by Frank
Data	IDL Design Package	IdlDesign?	RonMaddalena	DavidFleming	NicoleRadziwill	Status
Data	SDD IDL Design Review	IdlDesign?	RonMaddalena	DavidFleming	NicoleRadziwill	(to be done)
Ease of Use	Prepare for Beta Release of Observing API ~6/30	ObservingAPIBeta (include documentation about "how to test it" if other astronomers want to help Frank)	FrankGhigo	MarkClark	AmyShelton	Lots of progress this week. Busy debugging and fleshing out minor details. GO FITS file close to being completely replicated. Signed up for more test time next week.
Ease of Use	SB Executor Prototype	SbExecutor?	FrankGhigo	EricSessoms	NicoleRadziwill	code complete, additional testing required
Ease of Use	Complete specs for GBT Scheduling Block	SchedulingBlock	FrankGhigo	NicoleRadziwill	RichardPrestage	in progress, 20 pp so far as of 6/17
Ease of Use	Complete GBT Project Model & Observing Model	ProjectModel	FrankGhigo	NicoleRadziwill	RichardPrestage	under review by e2e group as of 5/24 (nmr)
CM&E	Spectrometer Self-Test Addition	ModificationRequest5C404	KarenONeil	MelindaMello	???	Ready for Sponsor testing
CM&E	Top PO Requests	None	Various	MelindaMello	???	Bug 975 will be done with the rest of the IFManager upgrades, Started bug 869-proving to be a problem, I have coded a python balance_spp as an interim solution, just in case I can't get the spp manager to balance	Bug909
CM&E	X-Band Manager Additions	Details	RogerNorrod	MelindaMello	???	Ready for Sponsor testing
CM&E	Install CCU/SCU Flash disks	Antenna PO#766	TimWeadon	JoeBrandt	???	Requires VxWorks Kernel reconfiguration
CM&E	Subreflector servo has incorrect stow position	Antenna PO#816	TimWeadon	JoeBrandt	???	In SCCU version 1.8
CM&E	Integration Tests	PerformIntegrationTests	NicoleRadziwill	PaulMarganian	N/A	Finished 2cd test. See SoftwareReportCentral for details. See SddCalendar for dates.

3. Background Tasks:

Project	TASK	MR	Sponsor	Lead	Status/Notes	Done
CM&E	Possible changes to Ka Mgr based on testing	N/A
CM&E	High Priority Items from PO Request Review Meeting	TBD	Various
CM&E	Items from Frank's Config List	TBD	FrankGhigo	MelindaMello	GASP is low priority	2cd, 3rd and 4th complete
CM&E	IFManager Cleanup	IFManagerWorkOverview	RonMaddalena	MarkClark	No progress this cycle.
CM&E	Fix Control library Deadlock problem		PaulMarganian	JoeBrandt	Fixes integrated into 4.3. See Status.
CM&E	Migration to gcc3 issues			JoeBrandt
CM&E	Tasklib fix for Linux Transporter/Samplers			JoeBrandt	Fixes integrated into 4.3. See Status.
PTCS	Determine role of RDB in inst/cal/config/ dyn calcs		KimConstantikes
PTCS	Active Surface - continue chartered work	list MRs here	JasonRay	MelindaMello	Debugged disconnected actuators not reporting faults --they will if requested to move large distances. TBF:check fault tolerance level
Ease of Use	logview complete & sponsor test	LogView	RogerNorrod	MarkClark	I have received good feedback from Roger, but have not acted on them. No surprises for an alpha release.
CCB	Complete CCB Manager	CCBClassDoc	BrianMason	MelindaMello
CM&E	Add Velocity scanning capability to LO1	PO#1000	FrankGhigo	JoeBrandt	Completed & patched into 4.3

4. Tasks that will not be completed this cycle:

Future Things to Think About

• Unified Messaging; have all messages sent to same repository for a user's obsering session, including ConfigurationAPI?, ObservingAPI?, GfmRelease?, and so forth. Raised as an issue by Richard (that GFM messages should be seen in CLEO message window), but a more "universal" solution is necessary.
• Making a better IDL plotter for astronomical spectroscopy (Jim's recommendation I think)
• Inter-scan latency can be improved by optimizing the scan start up times, currently there is just a large fudge factor. Note: this is on High Priority Items from PO Request Review Meeting and should be MRed/worked as background time permits. John Ford should probably be the sponsor. (nmr)
• Observing with multiple-backends simultaneously.
• Please add more here if you think of them.

-- NicoleRadziwill - 10 May 2004