Terapix Star Formation Region IC 1396, © 2001 CFHT
Teraminutes for the meeting of Thursday 20th January 2005
Article
by ABA - Updated January 22nd, 2005
Main subjects were :
-  SPICA status
-  SCamp status
-  Skywatcher
-  QFits status
-  DBTerapix status
-  Defectix status
-  clix crash

Present: Frederic, Emmanuel, Anthony, Gilles, Yannick, Jean-Christophe, Laurent, Mireille
Absent: Gerard, Henry


Details of the meeting:

Data release: (all)

-  current state: SPICA is about to start.
-  expected start release date: 01/24/05
-  Need a finalised version for SCamp: the delivery dead line is Januray 24th in the morning. All modifications done after (expect bugs) will not be used for T0002.
-  Using clix2 is too risky. T0002 will be handled by clix.
-  The deamon that will run spica-T0002 automatically have bee done by Fred but not yet delivered. Should be delivered by Monday, Janv. 24, at the latest.

Spica: (Laurent)

-  current work:
- All modifications done.
-  current problems:
- Some files are missing in w1.+2+2 as compared to expectations. Perhaps selections are too much critical. Yannick will check this problem.
-  new queries:
- scale according to the number of sources instead of the number of files.
- set a flag for photometry with a default value 0.05. The flag will be given to SCamp. - Skyprobe value for Swarp is 2.0

Scamp: (Emmanuel)

-  current version: 0.42-MP
-  current version release date : 12/18/04
-  current status: 0.42-MP Running on T0002
-  current work:
- New plots
-  next release date: 01/20/05
-  new queries:
- Add legends that explain each color on plots - Documentation after T0002 release - Add selection of photometric files, based on minimum skyprobe value and maximum distances between each photometric files, so that photometric files do not belong to a same bunch of images obtained at the same time and in the same field.

SKywatcher: (Jean-Christophe)

-  current work:
- libVOTable packaging is done
- libVOTable subversioned on Terapix
-  new queries:
- explain how to load huge images.

QFits: (Frédéric)

-  current version: not released
-  current version release date : -
-  current status: Running on T0002
-  current work:
- coding some modifications for Spica. - Write documentation and configure a package to compile the software. PLPLOT and CFITSIO included because we used terapix-patched versions.
-  next release date: First week of January 2005
-  new queries:

Defectix
-  current version: 0.9.3
-  current version release date: 01/11/05
-  current status: Coding and testing A version is installed on mix4 and is currently being tested by Yannick and Mireille.
-  current work: None
-  next release date: -
-  new queries:
- Treatment parallelisation while computing masks.
- libccgnu2 should be installed on mix1,4 (Frederic and Anthony)
- Time estimation (Yannick and Anthony)
- Think about masks format compared to bit masks (All)
- Enhance simulators
- Create a list of images with unusual defects from new QFits-ed images (Yannick, Mireille)
- All images should be in float, no double as some are now

DBTerapix (Gérard)

-  current work:
- Deletix 4.01 released. No unexpected (minor) bugs found since then, according to Laurent.

- Panier in progress: a release expected by Wednesday Janv. 26.

- DBTERAPIX documentation: will start immediately after the Panier release. Bugs related to DBTERAPIX have been centralised and will be documented soon, in a similar way as Deletix. In any case documentation will start by Janv. 31 at the latest.

Hardware: (Fred, Emmanuel, Gilles)

-  current issues:
clix crash

-  current works:
clix2 installed if clix need to be replaced. clix is running correctly but the crash is still not explained.

-  solved problems:
- samplix data stored.
-  new queries:
- FTP terapix.
- Need an web page showing where data are archived (band number, band location...) or how to find data. (Gilles)
- Installation of new computers during january 2005.
- Pix10 is totally useless. - Test shutdown after T0002.

ICD: (Yannick, Jean-Christophe)

Jean-Christophe is in charge of last details.

Next Meeting: Thursday Janv. 27.


Subjects not discussed

Subversion (Anthony)
-  current state: version 1.0.8 installed and running on terapix
-  current work:
- Configure viewcvs
new queries:
- Write a howto for Terapix users
- Remove CVS (Gilles)


Software not changed:

SExtractor
-  current version: 2.3.5
-  current version release date : 12/16/04
-  current status: Running on T0002
-  current work: -
-  next release date: -
-  new queries: -

Snooppix
-  current version: 1.0
-  current version release date : 01/12/04
-  current status: Running
-  current work: None
-  next release date: None
-  new queries: None

SkyWatcher
-  current version: Not released yet
-  current version release date : None
-  current status: Coding
-  current work: Coding
-  next release date: ?
-  new queries: -

Spica
-  current version:
-  current version release date : None
-  current status: Coding
-  current work:
-  next release date:
-  new queries:

Deletix
-  current version: 4.0.0 beta
-  current version release date: 12/22/04
-  current status: Testing
-  current work: None
-  next release date: -
-  new queries: -

DBTerapix
-  current version: ?
-  current version release date: ?
-  current status: Running
-  current work: -
-  next release date: -
-  new queries: -

WeightWatcher
-  current version: 1.6
-  current version release date: 11/12/04
-  current status: Running
-  current work: None
-  next release date: None
-  new queries: None

PSFEx
-  current version: 1.15
-  current version release date: 11/12/04
-  current status: Running
-  current work: None
-  next release date: None
-  new queries: None

STIFF
-  current version: 1.9
-  current version release date: 11/12/04
-  current status: Available
-  current work: None
-  next release date: None
-  new queries: Documentation after T0002 release.

MissFITS
-  current version: 1.8
-  current version release date: 11/26/04
-  current status: Available
-  current work: None
-  next release date: None
-  new queries: None


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