Software Plan of Record

Cycle 8 2006 (November 16 - December 31, 2006)

Weeks

Week 1 11/16 - 11/17
Week 2 11/20 - 11/25
Week 3 11/27 - 12/01
Week 4 12/03 - 12/08
Week 5 12/10 - 12/15
Week 6 12/17 - 12/22
Week 7 12/25 - 12/29

Release date for M&C/Sparrow: February 15, 2007

Who's in the Box?

Amy - 70% Management, 30% Vacation
Bob - 10% Support, 10% Zpectrometer Support, 20% Spectrometer, 30% e2e, 30% Vacation
Joe - 10% Support, 10% PTCS, 40% CM&E, 40% Vacation
Mark - 10% Support, 45% Dynamic Scheduling, 25% EVLA, 20% Vacation
Melinda - 10% Support, 60% Dynamic Scheduling, 10% Balancing, 20% Vacation
Mike - 10% Support, 30% Business Office System, 25% Scheduling, 10% Documentation, 25% Vacation
Paul - 10% Support, 50% Dynamic Scheduling, 10% Business Office System, 10% e2e, 20% Vacation
Ray - 10% Support, 20% Zpectrometer, 30% CM&E, 40% Vacation
Ron - 10% Support, 60% PTCS, 10% Documentation, 20% Vacation

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 C8 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)
Nov 25 2006 - MelindaMello- CCB server to Manager callback problem. medium
Nov 28 2006 - BobGarwood - Remijan reports problems with weekly (low for the fix, medium because of shifting aips++ installation issues). medium
Nov 30 2006 - PaulMarganian - answering SDFITS/GBTIDL questions. low
Dec 06 2006 - JoeBrandt, RamonCreager, RonGrider, and MikeMcCarty - Scan Coordinator core dump: No core files were given because of size limit; which has been increased. We're currently waiting for another core dump to occur yielding a core file and thus more information. low
Dec 06 2006 - JoeBrandt, RamonCreager, RonGrider, and MikeMcCarty - Investigated error in name generation of device fits files. The reported time of the ygor daemons was 1 full minute less than the actual start time. Error is in TimeStamp library utility. As yet unresolved. low
Dec 08 2006 - PaulMarganian - answered questions on Inclinometer. low
Dec 10 2006 - JoeBrandt - Subreflector delta limits (hradware). Low
Dec 13-14 2006 - PaulMarganian, BobGarwood, MarkClark - Helped with Tim Robishaw's LSFS/Sdfits issues. medium
Dec 14 2006 - PaulMarganian - Helped with Tsys problem in GFM. low
Dec 14, 2006 - MarkClark - Helped BrianMason with using LST in turtle. low
Dec 19-20, 2006 - MarkClark, AmyShelton - Helped debug polarization scan types. medium
Dec 20, 2006 - MarkClark - Help define configuration for Spectrometer to write data to local scratch disk. low
Dec 28, 2006 - JoeBrandt - Fix antenna database for missing 12_18 receiver. low

2. Commitments

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

Task	Info/MR	Lead	Sponsor,Team	Notes
Zpectrometer Commissioning Support	N/A	RamonCreager, BobGarwood	KarenONeil
Evolve Dynamic Scheduling Proposal	Dynamic Web	KarenONeil	KarenONeil, MelindaMello, PaulMarganian, MarkClark	Continued work on testcases in database. Done examining Weather: predicted winds vs. actual winds. Generated data for the DSS Sim database and implemented selection rule based on new wind criteria. Wrote a wiki page on whats been implemented so far. Meetings..Meetings..Meetings. Main.MelindaMello We have begun the Object-Oriented Analysis which attempts to capture the requirements as Object/Dynamic/Functinal Models. Progress will be tracked at WebHome. An initial object diagram exists. MarkClark Initial version of software suite completed. PaulMarganian - placed Tsys predictions in database, confirmed wind speed profiles and weather station info.
Modify SDFITS and aips++ to correctly process Spectrometer cross-polarization data	ModificationRequest2C706	BobGarwood	BrianMason, KarenONeil, PaulMarganian	This is done. I'll notify Robishaw so that he can test it out on his data. GFM works fine on this although I think we should change the Tsys calculation for xcorr data in the spectral line plug in. Tim reports that it isn't correct, waiting on feedback as to what might be wrong.
SDFits Changes - Add target position and HIGH_CAL keywords to sdfits and other requested sdfits changes	ModificationRequest3C706	BobGarwood	KarenONeil, PaulMarganian	Minor update to the MR after reflection on an e-mail from Robishaw (change in how the first 1024-lags will be used in x-corr case - checked but not fixed, just flagged if bad). Spent a lot of time tracking down historical COORDSYS usages - TRGTLONG and TRGTLAT now done.
GBTIDL Changes necessary in support of related sdfits tool changes	ModificationRequest8C706	BobGarwood	KarenONeil, PaulMarganian
Change scaling for the Autocorrelation Spectra in the Spectrometer	ModificationRequest6C706	BobGarwood	KarenONeil, PaulMarganian	Done (except for documentation changes and release notes). Now in integration. GFM appears to work fine with these changes - note that because GFM displays total power values that these raw numbers are 2x larger than they were before these changes, as expected. Tim R. has verified that this is correct.
Change GO fits file so that RA is in degrees	ModificationRequest15C705	PaulMarganian	KarenONeil, BobGarwood	Code commited in CVS. Still must change GO FITS Documentation.
Answer Questions Related to Track Model	N/A	JoeBrandt	RichardPrestage	Attended PTCS meetings.
SCCU Servo Changes	ModificationRequest1C806	JoeBrandt	JohnFord	MR updated and code ready for servo testing. Not yet signed.
Upgrade PTCS Pointing Model Pre-Processing Software	ModificationRequest5C706	RonGrider	FrankGhigo, AmyShelton	Enhancing peakdata module to become more complete prepoint application. Adjusting prepoint to use new code modules refactored earlier for this MR. Updating prepoint's focus scan analysis / processing capabilities to the same level as peak scan capabilities.
General PTCS Support	N/A	N/A	RichardPrestage, JohnFord	Attended phase retrieval holography meetings with representatives from Goddard.
Business Office System	BusinessOfficeSystem	PaulMarganian	AmyShelton, MikeMcCarty	After reviewing new 'cut & paste' method for entering info into PeopleSoft?, team is rewriting Project Charter, so we can resubmit idea to Bus. Office Management. Main.MikeMcCarty attempt to simplify this method by using an HTML table instead of an Excel file, but PeopleSoft? did not paste the information into the cells correctly. We're also still working on the Project Charter.
Assist CarlBignell in migrating from dbase to MySQL	SchedulingSoftware	MikeMcCarty	CarlBignell	The Scheduling Tools table on the VDBaseTools wiki has been completed. The Proposal Tools tables has been started. No update.
Balancing Project - Project Charter	Add link to charter here	MelindaMello	FrankGhigo	Reviewed MRs and modified them with comments. Also provide FG with a list of 2 MRs that need to be written. One whould be written by me (SEcurity daemon) and the other one (IFRack) by the sponsor.
Balancing Project - Get, Set, and Change Attenuators	ModificationRequest8C505	MelindaMello	FrankGhigo, RamonCreager
Balancing Project - Converter Rack: Add Ability to Set Power Levels and to Balance to those Levels	ModificationRequest4C505	MelindaMello	FrankGhigo, RamonCreager
Balancing Project - Change Spectrometer Warning Messages During Balance	ModificationRequest9C505	MelindaMello	FrankGhigo, RamonCreager
Balancing Project - IF Rack: Change messages to indicate non-balance and non-linearity	ModificationRequest10C505	MelindaMello	FrankGhigo, RamonCreager
Balancing Project - Multiple sampling for Balancing procedures to diminish RFI effects	ModificationRequest11C505	MelindaMello	FrankGhigo, RamonCreager
E2E Common User Database	PaulMarganian	NicoleRadziwill, AmyShelton		For Details, see: https://wiki.nrao.edu/bin/view/Software/UserDatabaseSharedServicesDiscussion. No progress since Oct. 23. It now appears that BOS v1.0 will not use this. How should we wrap up this work?
Participate in ALMA's Testing of CASA	N/A	BobGarwood	NicoleRadziwill
Attend EVLA Software Review	N/A	N/A	MarkClark
Update Software Documentation	SoftwareDocumentation?	AmyShelton	RonGrider, MikeMcCarty	Reviewing updated M&C diagram. Starting software documentation "dashboard-like" wiki. Updated "level 0" notes (conf files, env vars, third party libs) for GFM, Turtle and other Astrid apps. Developing class-diagrams for these apps. Discussion on document standards led to creating Project Charter template, see PcTemplate.
GFM not displaying proper frequency axis	ModificationRequest2C806	PaulMarganian	?	MR only lacks sequence diagram for design section, and Sponsor.
Investigate & Fix Cause of Astrid Hang-ups	ModificationRequest9C706	MarkClark	JimBraatz, JoeBrandt	Tested a preliminary 6.6.1 version, but found several problems. Items from first test are now resolved and will be re-tested 7 Dec. Test 07 Dec results Still looking into cause of LPC/LFC zeroing. Ran into problem of hanging when going on-line (also seen by RonG). GFM appears to get into a loop refilling the first and second scan of the project when going on-line. Arg!

3. Refactored Code

Description	Tests	Submitter	Notes
Scancoordinator core dump	Fixed an issue where a string parameter of fixed size (scanLogEntry) was being copied from a smaller buffer. This caused a seg fault when the unmapped memory was accessed.	JoeBrandt	Merged into both integration and 6.6 source, but not yet patched into 6.6.
Taskmaster core files	Fixed Taskmaster to properly place core files into the cores directory.	JoeBrandt	Merged into both integration and 6.6 source, but not yet patched into 6.6.
Misnamed FITS files	Fixed the algorithm for computing device FITS filenames. Problem was seen with a starttime of 16:20:00.0 which was incorrectly computed as 16:19:00.	JoeBrandt	Updated into integration, but not 6.6. This will require a re-install of all FITS writing daemons.

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
GBTIDL Autoflagger	ModificationRequest2C506	BobGarwood	RonMaddalena	Started.
Investigate imaging for GBTIDL	add link to investigation results here	BobGarwood	RonMaddalena

5. Miscellaneous

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