[News] minutes/action-items astro-wise telecon

[Roeland Rengelink]

see also: http://www.astro-wise.org/minutes/action-items.txt

REPORT ASTRO-WISE TELECOM 11 sept 2003
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Most items have been converted to AIs (see below)

++ Bugs, features and wishes should be directly reported to
    responsible persons. The responsible person will provide a reaction,
    asap.

++ Edwin reminds that in Q4 of 2003 our milestone is to have all
    classes defined.  When this is finsihed, Danny's life with updating
    db schemas, syncing with code base etc should become simpler.

++ Edwin is in contact with Edinburgh about collaborating with their
    exercise to put the Sloan htm code into DB2 (for the VO),
    resembling very much our work on putting this in Oracle.
    We indeed share the same frustrations on missing code.

++ We will organize a workvisit here in Groningen, dedicated to
    photometry and flatfielding in the near future. Niightsky flats can
    be discussed during that week.

New Action Items
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AI Roeland  11/09/03
    Put list of persons resonsible for various recipies, libraries,
    etc. on website. Add names of responsible persons for FAQ , to do
    lists and cookbook.

AI Mark, Roberto 11/09/03
    Send names of responsible persons for recipes etc to Roeland

AI Mike, Danny 11/09/03
    Start providing for stable (base) and development (test) branches
    (earmarks) in CVS

AI Danny 11/09/03
    Formalize procedure for schema-evolution between test and base
    versions of the code

AI Alfredo 11/09/03
    Integrate QC tools into verify and compare formalism (make QC
    persistent). Evaluate if/how these tools encompass an integrated
    full blown quality control system.

AI Roberto 11/09/03
    Is Fjodr available to help with STREAMS?

AI Roeland, Ronald 11/09/03
    Make top level Dither recipe

AI Roberto 11/09/03
    Add the OAC de-fringing method as a second, alternative method to
    ReducedScienceFrame

AI Edwin 11/09/03
    Write report on Bias recipes and the found hysteresis in the FIERRAs.

Open Action Items from previous meetings
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AI RSi (Telecon 24/7/03)
   Investigate if QC needs additional masking info

AI USM (Telecon 24/7/03)
   Add USM cr-program to CVS and provide interface
   Update 07/08/03 -- Changed responsibility from RRe to USM

AI EBe (Telecon 24/7/03)
   Apply patch DBo to sextractor (fixes wcs issues)

AI EBe (Telecon 10/7/03)
   Run astrobench on IAP Opteron, and send result to AGr

AI EDe (Telecon 10/7/03)
   Circulate filenaming proposal in AW

AI EVa (Telecon 10/7/03)
   Ask ESO to consider FTP as an *optional* alternative besides
   USB/Firewire disks for data transport

AI RRe/RVe/DBo (Telecon 24/6/03)
   Merge "Manual.tex", "Cookbook.tex" into a single document.
   Update 07/08/04 -- README shall not be incorporated into this
          document

AI RRe 02/06/03 (Telecon 2/6/03)
  Contact ESO (Michele or Yves Jung) about status of Eclipse and
  possibility to feed our changes to Eclipse back to the main Eclipse
  branch again. Check out the possibility to introduce FFT in eclipse
  for flat field pipeline.
  Update 14/7/03 -- Sent message to Michele Peron, Added FFT to eclipse


AI DBo + MPa 10/02/03  (from the Munich GUI/Quality Control Meeting)
  Automatic CVS updates for the pipeline.
  [OAC will provide a script for this]
  Related to this, although not a priority at the moment, is the desire
  to have the pipeline installation streamlined into a single tar-ball
  and a single install script.  Currently the installation is too
  cumbersome.  This, however, can wait until a more mature stage in its
  development is reached.
  This AI should address versioning of code AND data base
  Update: Danny will come up with a proposal.
  Update: Danny will contact Mike about the scripts.
  Update (10/7/03): Danny received script, Danny and Mike will come
  up with proposal
  Update 07/08/03 - Add note about versioning

AI Roeland, Danny 31/10/02
  An implementation plan, splitting the design of the various WP into
  specific tasks to be distributed over various AstroWise persons
  should be made for WP1, WP2 (tools, not Visualization, as this is
  already defined) and WP3.
  Roeland will do this for WP1, Danny and Edwin for WP3, and NN for
  WP2. This will go into the new schedule to be made before 1/7/03.

AI OAC 31/10/02
  review and upgrade present recipes for calibration pipeline (bias,
  FF, fringing) as far as quality control is concerned: check
  specifications, test recipes, contribute to  improve scripts (due
  1-3-03).
  10/7/03 -- Number of modifications/additions now expected to be small
             and finished within 2 months

AI USM 31/10/02
  will play guinea-pig for the federated database- WFI data will be
  used to populate a first version.
  15/5/03 -- Mid-June prototype implementations will start.