Software Plan of Record

Cycle 7 2006 (October 2 - November 15, 2006)

Weeks

Week 1 10/2 - 10/6
Week 2 10/9 - 10/13
Week 3 10/16 - 10/20
Week 4 10/23 - 10/27
Week 5 10/30 - 11/3
Week 6 11/6 - 11/10
Week 7 11/13 - 11/15

Release date for M&C/Sparrow: January, 2007

Who's in the Box?

Amy - 10% Dynamic Scheduling, 55% Management, 15% ADASS, 20% Vacation
Bob - 10% Support, 20% Zpectrometer Support, 50% Spectrometer, 20% ADASS
Joe - 10% Support, 10% Penn Array, 30% PTCS, 50% CM&E
Mark - 10% Support, 65% Dynamic Scheduling, 25% CM&E
Melinda - 10% Support, 10% PAR, 55% Dynamic Scheduling, 25% Balancing
Mike - 10% Support, 50% Business Office System, 40% CM&E
Paul - 10% Support, 55% Dynamic Scheduling, 25% Business Office System, 10% e2e
Ray - 10% Support, 25% Zpectrometer, 65% CM&E
Ron - 10% Support, 90% PTCS

Use the order as a guideline in order to determine the relative priority of jobs.

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 C6 2006

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)
Sep 29 2006 - MelindaMello (low) get astrid logs for toney minter because user missing data and it was beleived that session number in astrid had changed.
Oct 2 2006 - PaulMarganian - temp sensor gbtts3 2001 gave out again briefly, also had trouble clearing message once sensor came back up - low
Oct 2 2006 - PaulMarganian - looked into another case of "Astrid Diarehea" from missing Rcvr calibration info - low
Oct 2 2006 - PaulMarganian - GBTIDL user support; Larry Morgan has strange looking Ka data - low
Oct 2 2006 - PaulMarganian,Main.JoeBrandt - Dynamic Corrections failed temperature sensor low
Oct 3 2006 - JoeBrandt, MarkClark - Looked into DCR 10MHz dropouts medium
Oct 3 2006 - PaulMarganian - Helped Andrew Baker get up and running with Zpectrometer data- low
Oct 3 2006 - PaulMarganian - Lab Spectrometer data support - low
Oct 3 2006 - PaulMarganian - temp sensor gbtts3 2001 fails again - low
Oct 3 2006 - JoeBrandt - Rx change database update, turret servo oddities, Motor rack error discussions - low
Oct 4 2006 - PaulMarganian - Lab Spectrometer data support - addressing concerns on data rates and sdfits - low
Oct 5 2006 - PaulMarganian - Continuing Andrew Baker support with Zpectrometer data - low
Oct 9 2006 - PaulMarganian - more lab spectrometer support - low
Oct 12 2006 - PaulMarganian, MarkClark - responded to Astrid not calculating pointing corrections; turned out to be NFS errors between ariel and gbtdata. - low
Oct 12 2006 - BobGarwood - investigate reports that weekly dish is not working (Remijan). low
Oct 12 2006 - MelindaMello - MMMConverter MCB/SIB problem. low
Oct 12 2006 - BobGarwood - found and fixed a long-standing bug in dish.writetofile re-reported by a recent observer low
Oct 16 2006 - MarkClark, JoeBrandt - Supported repair of Spectral Processor synthesizer. -- medium
Oct 18 2006 - MelindaMello- Supported astronomers questions concerning Ka configurations. -- low
Oct 18 2006 - MelindaMello- Supported astronomers questions default configuratation keyword values. -- low

Oct 18 2006 - MelindaMello- Supported adding new user to astrid db. -- low
Oct 18 2006 - MarkClark - Messages complaining about missing CCB connections, new cabling file was never loaded into the IFManager. low
Oct 18 2006 - PaulMarganian - clearing up confusion about GO FITS keywords and bug where RA is in decimal hours instead of decimal degrees. moderate
Oct 22 2006 - JoeBrandt - Recovery from spectrometer host crash. low
Oct 23 2006 - PaulMarganian - More work on above GO FITS RA issue. medium
Oct 23 2006 - RamonCreager - Looked into Archivist failure to log QD data. medium
Oct 23 2006 - MelindaMello - Questions concerning a config that was run on 10/21 low
Oct 24 2006 - PaulMarganian - user support with GBTIDL over plot bug. low
Oct 24 2006 - MelindaMello - Questions concerning default config keyword values from TM (for documentation purposes) low
Oct 25 2006 - MarkClark - gbtstatus failed because daemon quit. low
Oct 25 2006 - MarkClark - Astrid failed because es daemon quit. low
Nov 01 2006 - MelindaMello -Investigated, tested and released a patch for configurations using the Ka receiver / ACS with testtone frequencies lower than 9000 medium
Nov 2 2006 - MarkClark - Helped operator enter new observer into turtle database low
Nov 6 2006 - AmyShelton - Engineers reported that the Q-band Manager couldn't communicate with the hardware. They cycled some power supplies and fixed the problem themselves. low
Nov 6 2006 - AmyShelton - Operator reported error message from LO1 Router. Turned Manager off and back on. This cleared the message. The message was probably generated as a result of maintenance activities earlier in the day. low
Nov 7 2006 - AmyShelton - Added an observer to the observation management database. low
Nov 7 2006 - PaulMarganian - Had to restart the online sdfits filler. low
Nov 7 2006 - PaulMarganian, MarkClark - Had trouble with online sdfits filler after /home/gbt7 was moved. low
Nov 8 2006 - PaulMarganian - Zpectrometer commissioning support. low
Nov 14 2006 - RamonCreager - Quadrant Detector: diagnosing failure in DT-50 units. low

2. Commitments

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

Task	Info/MR	Lead	Sponsor,Team	Notes	Status
Penn Array Commissioning Support	N/A	MelindaMello, JoeBrandt	BrianMason	Removed lots of log files because housekeeping went haywire. (MelindaMello) Visually inspected housekeeping software for cause -- not obvious. (JoeBrandt) Mustang receiver now off the telescope and heading back to UPenn.
Zpectrometer Commissioning Support	N/A	RamonCreager, BobGarwood	KarenONeil	Added support to manager to ensure that the Zpectrometer starts and stops scans on time. It was starting 4-5 seconds late, and thus ending late, because of the time spent configuring the backends for measurement. (RamonCreager)
Modify SDFITS and aips++ to correctly process Spectrometer cross-polarization data	ModificationRequest2C706	BobGarwood	BrianMason, KarenONeil, PaulMarganian	MR nearly finished, waiting for feedback from Heiles and Robishaw. Design changes to sdfits seem low impact. Some implementation work has been done. Investigating other future changes requested to Sdfits. (PRM). This has blossomed into 5 MRs awaiting CCC review (PaulMarganian)
SDFits Changes - Add target position and HIGH_CAL keywords to sdfits and other requested sdfits changes	ModificationRequest3C706	BobGarwood	KarenONeil, PaulMarganian		ok
GBTIDL Changes necessary in support of related sdfits tool changes	ModificationRequest8C706	BobGarwood	KarenONeil, PaulMarganian		ok
Change scaling for the Autocorrelation Spectra in the Spectrometer	ModificationRequest6C706	BobGarwood	KarenONeil, PaulMarganian		ok
Change GO fits file so that RA is in degrees	ModificationRequest15C705	PaulMarganian	KarenONeil, BobGarwood	Awaiting CCC Review. Change committed to Trunk already.	ok
Business Office System	BusinessOfficeSystem	PaulMarganian	AmyShelton, MikeMcCarty	Project Charter updated. NRAO User Database end progressing (see e2e notes below). Chuck has promised to give his demo on file uploads to PeopleSoft Wed. Nov. 8. Researching PHP Data Persistence technologies - MikeMcCarty Have specified our expectations for a successful demo of People Soft Interface. Have also discussed the 3 options ofr releasing Alpha Product. - PaulMarganian. Demo of People Soft interface postponed until next week. The demo on Nov. 15th wasn't exactly what we asked for in Paul's document on expectations. Course of action to be decided soon. - MikeMcCarty	ok
Investigate & Fix Cause of Astrid Hang-ups	ModificationRequest9C706	MarkClark	JimBraatz, JoeBrandt	Continuing refactoring and optimization, see MR, a living document. MR now signed. Code changes merged and ready to commit into repository.
GFM/Turtle Upgrade - Remove use of LPCs.conf file	ModificationRequest4C706	RamonCreager	FrankGhigo, AmyShelton	Sponsor tested and approved. Note: In subsequent testing it was noted that zero's were being forwarded to antenna in some cases. This is being investigated.
Servo Test Support & Analysis	N/A	JoeBrandt	JohnFord	Attend working meeting all day Friday 11/10 with consultant. Very productive meeting. Code to add friction compensation into the existing CCU has been requested for December tests.
Answer Questions Related to Track Model	N/A	JoeBrandt	RichardPrestage	Started a PTCS document which describes the processing the antenna does to convert refracted az/el commands into servo commands, and vice-versa. Will attend PTCS meeting 11/20 to discuss OOF holography.
Evolve Dynamic Scheduling Proposal	Dynamic Web	AmyShelton	KarenONeil, MelindaMello, PaulMarganian, MarkClark	Generated test cases from GBT06A semester from Carls mysql Proposal and vprog tables. Some of the required data is still missing and other data needs to be massaged, but overal its promising.	ok
Learn PTCS System	N/A	RonGrider	FrankGhigo, AmyShelton	Project Note PTCSPN52 revised based on recommendations from FrankGhigo to include more quantitative comparisons. Briefed to subset of PTCS team, with recommendations to implement peakdata.py versions of algorithm differences.
Upgrade PTCS Pointing Model Pre-Processing Software	ModificationRequest5C706	RonGrider	FrankGhigo, AmyShelton	Refactored config file functionality from DEAP; propagating change to DEAP-based GFM code. Restarting the refactorization of pointing code between GFM code and peakdata.py
Assist CarlBignell in migrating from dbase to MySQL	SchedulingSoftware	MikeMcCarty	CarlBignell	Created a table of all the tools that Carl uses for Proposals. Carl has agreed to fill out this table to provide descriptions and status, see SchedulingSoftware for details. I will be adding scheduling tools to this. - MikeMcCarty	ok
Balancing Project - Project Charter	Add link to charter here	MelindaMello	FrankGhigo	Suring this weeks' Obs issues Meeting the staff astronomers decided to go with the python implementation.	ok
Balancing Project - Get, Set, and Change Attenuators	ModificationRequest8C505	MelindaMello	FrankGhigo, RamonCreager		ok
Balancing Project - Converter Rack: Add Ability to Set Power Levels and to Balance to those Levels	ModificationRequest4C505	MelindaMello	FrankGhigo, RamonCreager		ok
Balancing Project - Change Spectrometer Warning Messages During Balance	ModificationRequest9C505	MelindaMello	FrankGhigo, RamonCreager		ok
Balancing Project - IF Rack: Change messages to indicate non-balance and non-linearity	ModificationRequest10C505	MelindaMello	FrankGhigo, RamonCreager		ok
Balancing Project - Multiple sampling for Balancing procedures to diminish RFI effects	ModificationRequest11C505	MelindaMello	FrankGhigo, RamonCreager		ok
E2E Common User Database	PaulMarganian	NicoleRadziwill, AmyShelton		Started work with Stephan Witz, Oct 11. Moving forward, using Nicoles method of 'possible technologies' -> 'policy'. Created site for discussion. Talks continue at slow pace. No new discussions since Oct 23 - will not agressively pursue until we see what the plan is with the BOS. Still waiting to see what happens with BOS. No feed back from e2e yet either. Still no updates.	ok
Attend ADASS	Program	N/A	BobGarwood, AmyShelton	October 15-18
Upgrade and configure Penn/Mustang development system (Green)	MustangDevSystemConfig	JoeBrandt	MelindaMello	Green now up and running RHE3 as a development system. IRC is parsing data.

3. Refactored Code

Description	Tests	Submitter	Notes
shm_ntp_clk	shm_ntp_clk is the ntp clock helper program used on systems with a 1PPS input. No specific tests necessary.	JoeBrandt	Still testing, this is a placeholder.
LO1Coordinator	Select PAR receiver, turn auto-leveling on. Check for message.	JoeBrandt	Fixed failure case when auto-leveling is selected, but receiver config files do not contain a freq/pwr table.
sampler2log	run sampler2log -d 0.09 Antenna AntennaManager azElData and verify row timestamps are spaced approximately 100ms apart.	JoeBrandt	Fixed a bug which caused decimation to not work with 'folded' samplers. (Ones with many rows/sample.)
Added check for valid beamName to ScanTypes	No additional testing needed. Unit tests pass.	AmyShelton
Refactored *Device classes	Run GFM and exercise each plugin to make sure you get plots. The "GFM Workout" SB in TAPI will exercise the peak, focus, and spectral line plugins.	AmyShelton	Referring to the classes in Sparrow's gbt/api/ygor directory
Removed use of placeholder BackendDevice from GFMPanel	Run GFM and exercise the Spectral Line plugin. It should work the same as before.	AmyShelton
Added basic session checking to Run tab of turtle client	For projects whose names begin with "A", users should only be able to specify integer session values. If a non-integer is used, the session field turns red and the user should not be able to submit SBs.	AmyShelton
Modified Grail to provide full field callback support	Client should be able to register field callbacks for simple type samplers and parameters (e.g. <manager>.reg_param('state', cb, '.')). Clients should also be able to obtain the time stamp MJD and seconds values by using the 'TS:MJD' and 'TS:seconds' fields, for both samplers and parameters.	RamonCreager	See the "Grail Development Notes" for more information and examples.

4. Background Tasks

Task	Info/MR	Lead	Sponsor,Team	Notes
Fix Faulty Self-Test in Spectrometer	ModificationRequest6C406	RamonCreager	RandyMcCullough
Correct boom deploy/retract under M&C control	BoomDeployRetractProblem?	JasonRay	JoeBrandt, MelindaMello	Found that the 'reset' status indication is active for only a few milliseconds on the SCU (vs 10 seconds on the CCU). This causes the state machine to miss the reset event. Still investigating resolution.
GBTIDL Autoflagger	ModificationRequest2C506	BobGarwood	RonMaddalena	Started.
Investigate imaging for GBTIDL	add link to investigation results here	BobGarwood	RonMaddalena
Create spectrometer integration-level plot server and client.	N/A	AmyShelton	PaulMarganian
Create Penn Array Manager	ModificationRequest3C406	JoeBrandt	BrianMason, MelindaMello

5. Miscellaneous

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