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Software Plan of Record

Cycle 7 2005 (October 1 - November 15, 2005)

Weeks

  • Week 1 10/3 - 10/7
  • Week 2 10/10 - 10/14
  • Week 3 10/17 - 10/21
  • Week 4 10/24 - 10/28
  • Week 5 10/31 - 11/4
  • Week 6 11/7 - 11/11

M&Cv5.7 Release:
TBD on November XX, 2005

Who's in the Box?

  • GFM - 100% Amy, 100% Paul
  • Penn Array - 65% Melinda
  • CCB Commissioning Support - 80% Mark
  • PTCS Support - 20% Mark, 50% Joe (dynamic corrections update)
  • CM&E - 35% Melinda (new configs, CFITSIO fix), 50% Joe (tipper resurrection), 85% Ray (3mm rcvr mgr)
  • Science - 25% Jim
  • Data - 100% Bob, 75% Jim (GBTIDL v1.2)
  • Integration Tests - 15% Ray

Key for the "Status" column:

  • DONE means the task has been successfully completed
  • MOVED TO... means the task has been completed and is awaiting integration tests
  • PICK means the task has been completed and is awaiting sponsor tests
  • ALERT! 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 C6 2005

2. Commitments

Project TASK MR Sponsor Lead Checker Notes Status
DataHandlingImprovements Upgrade Spectral Line Capabilities in GFM for Astronomers ModificationRequest6C505 RonMaddalena PaulMarganian AmyShelton MR approved, still waiting for sponsor testing. Major real time issues jeopardize task: fql FITS file buffering, DEAP plotting time. Issues being addressed (see below).  
DataHandlingImprovements Upgrade Spectral Line Capabilities in GFM for Engineers ModificationRequest1C705 RichardLacasse NicoleRadziwill PaulMarganian Nicole and Rich getting together 11/2 to 11/5 sometime to finalize MR.  
DataHandlingImprovements DEAP or Matplotlib Additions for Plotting Performance ModificationRequest2C705? NicoleRadziwill AmyShelton PaulMarganian Matplotlib is half-way integrated into DEAP. We are currently working on getting GFM to use the new DEAP. The problems with that are actually fitting related - not plotting. We also have a test version of sparrow built against the new McPython? in /home/gbt7/llama2. Refactoring of Sparrow libraries increasing IO performance by more then two fold.  
DataHandlingImprovements GBTIDLv1.2 N/A NicoleRadziwill BobGarwood JimBraatz See IDLPlanUpdate. Making progress on version 1.2.  
DataHandlingImprovements Instructions for expanding GBTIDL for other telescopes N/A NicoleRadziwill PaulMarganian BobGarwood Discussed briefly, but not started yet.  
CaltechContinuumBackend CCB/Ka Commissioning Support CcbSoftwareCleanup BrianMason MarkClark MelindaMello Except for one bug, in general support mode.  
CaltechContinuumBackend Add CCB to IF Mgr ModificationRequest6C705 BrianMason MarkClark RamonCreager Waiting for CCC approval. PICK
CaltechContinuumBackend Implement Data Quality Checks for Ka FITS Files & Interpret in GFM ModificationRequest12C705 BrianMason PaulMarganian NicoleRadziwill MR written. Supporting code in sparrow developed. Working on GFM changes. Need more time with Brian to discuss GFM calibration . This is in danger of sliding.  
CaltechContinuumBackend Add Support for new Ka Channels to GFM ModificationRequest13C705 BrianMason PaulMarganian AmyShelton MR being written. but this should be a very simple task. This is also in danger of sliding.  
CaltechContinuumBackend Create MR for Adding Support for CCB to GFM ModificationRequest16C705 BrianMason AmyShelton PaulMarganian MR being written. Brian is working on the requirements section. I expect him to complete that sometime next week.  
CaltechContinuumBackend Config Tool Addition for CCB ModificationRequest8C705 BrianMason MelindaMello MelindaMello   PICK
CaltechContinuumBackend FITS File Name to Scan Log ModificationRequest5C705 BrianMason MarkClark MelindaMello Waiting for CCC approval. PICK
PennArrayReceiver Add remaining features to FITS archiver (v9, keywords, channel mapping) ModificationRequest2C505 BrianMason MelindaMello JoeBrandt IRC and MarkIII? CVS tag in place, PAR code tagged/released with installation
instuctions on the Wiki.
 PICK
PTCS Split enabling of dynamic corrections for pting/focus ModificationRequest4C705 DanaBalser JoeBrandt PaulMarganian done
 DONE
PTCS Standardize different versions of Peak/Focus scan types ModificationRequest14C705 KarenONeil MarkClark AmyShelton Reasons for slippage are: 1) Most of the cycle went to iterating through the requirements. 2) The CCB chose the end of the cycle to expose an especially nasty bug which has taken nearly a week of effort (so far). ALERT!
SoftwareCME Provide low-level support for cross-correlation tests if necessary N/A KarenONeil MarkClark PaulMarganian No requests made DONE
SoftwareCME CFITSIO Fix N/A KarenONeil MelindaMello PaulMarganian I have nearly 2 weeks of vacation scheduled for this cycle. As the lowest priority task, this one most likely will not be completed. NOTE:If not lowest priority, please let me know.
(Joe agreed to look into this issue -- time permitting.) 		ALERT!
SoftwareCME Write 3mm Receiver Manager N/A MikeStennes RamonCreager JoeBrandt Rev. 1 of the conventional portion of the receiver is written. Work is proceeding on testing this with the simulator, and on writing the Calibration Optics control code for the receiver.  
SoftwareCME Config Tool Addition for GASP and/or SPIGOT without BCPM ModificationRequest7C705 ScottRansom MelindaMello MelindaMello   MOVED TO...
SoftwareCME Resurrect the Tipper Manager TipperInvestigation BrianMason JoeBrandt RamonCreager All of my tests point to a hardware issue, either mechanical (the system binds and stalls the motor?), or a controller/connection problem.
(Update: Jason has found the motor to be bad.) 		ALERT!
SoftwareCME Changes to AutoPeakFocus for Catalog Support [Note: Only if CCB Commiss Needs Not Extensive] ModificationRequest10C705 KarenONeil MarkClark AmyShelton Waiting for CCC approval. DONE
SoftwareCME Integration Tests PerformIntegrationTests AmyShelton RamonCreager AmyShelton See SddCalendar for dates.  
Other Zspectrometer Meeting on October 14 N/A KarenONeil AmyShelton NicoleRadziwill Complete. Additional details available at ZpectProject DONE
Other Panel Discussion on October 5, 1p-2:30p in Tour Center Classroom N/A NicoleRadziwill MarkClark None   DONE
SoftwareCME Resolve Astrid Secondary Optics Issues AstridSecondaryOpticsInvestigation? AmyShelton JoeBrandt None complete/patched into 5.6 DONE
SoftwareCME LO1 10MHz external reference monitoring ModificationRequest11C804 RogerNorrod JoeBrandt None   DONE

3. Refactored Code

Description Tests Submitter Notes Status
Make all observing Managers synchronous All devices in CLEO's ScanCoordinator window go into Running during a scan MarkClark   DONE
Removed automatic setting of observer name in Run tab of Observation Management No tests necessary - patched into 5.6 as well AmyShelton    
Made projects in Run and Edit tabs of Observation Management track each other No tests necessary - patched into 5.6 as well AmyShelton    
Made mesgMux perform multi-threaded message delivery Normal operation of message system JoeBrandt   DONE
Added scan position feedback parameter for Astrid onOff procedure No tests necessary. JoeBrandt   DONE
Fixed race condition in Spectrometer FITs writer No tests necessary. - Patched into 5.6 & integration JoeBrandt   DONE
Fixed Apparent Minor display in gbtstatus Put user_coordinate mode in Antenna to ApparentRaDec. Verify that the major and minor values are in HH:MM:SS in the gbtstatus window. Verify that the major and minor values are not the same! MelindaMello    
Corrected Antenna trajectory errors in some cases No specific tests necessary. No trajectory failures should be noted with drives enabled. JoeBrandt Failures have been drastically reduced. DONE

4. Background Tasks

Looks like these will all be scheduled for C8 2005!

Project TASK MR Sponsor Lead Checker Notes Status
CaltechContinuumBackend Fix the Ka band sky frequency computed by gbtstatus needs MR BrianMason MelindaMello PaulMarganian    
CaltechContinuumBackend Add support for CCB to GFM needs MR BrianMason AmyShelton MarkClark    
SoftwareCME Fix memory leak in Astrid gbtstatus. N/A KarenONeil MelindaMello AmyShelton    
SoftwareCME Add addtl parameters/IF path info to gbtstatus. Target ??? - keeps getting downgraded by project planning group needs MR KarenONeil MelindaMello AmyShelton    
SoftwareCME Transition to gcc 4.X Notes NicoleRadziwill RamonCreager JoeBrandt Proceeding in build order (ygor/libraries/makeDirs). Done through IF library. Notes here.  
SoftwareCME Correct boom deploy/retract under M&C control BoomDeployRetractProblem? JasonRay JoeBrandt MelindaMello    
SoftwareCME False Alarms from IFManager ModificationRequest9C705 None MarkClark AmyShelton   DONE
Other Investigations into trajectory errors TrajectoryInvestigationsPartII RichardPrestage JoeBrandt None Spent a couple of days looking into recent trajectory failures, and putting together some examples for Fred.
  
SoftwareCME Bad Noise Level Simulations for Prime Focus Receivers IFManagerWorkOverview None MarkClark RamonCreager   DONE

5. Miscellaneous

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