Busy week 3-7 April 2023

[paoloserra]

Venue

@o-smirnov please fill in details
Note: 7 April is a public holiday in RSA

Attendees:

Present:

• Julia
• Dane
• Ruby
• Erwin
• Lexy
• Filippo
• Ben
• Athanaseus
• Oleg
• Francesca

Remote:

• Paolo

Maybe:

• Kshitij
• Peter

To be invited?

• Simon
• Jon
• Keegan
• Sphe

Tasks

(part new, part left from previous busy week)

• RELEASE
• Stimela-2
• Add quartical to the selfcal worker? Maybe as part of a new (independent) selfcal worker?
• imcontsub may need improvements in the masking of channels (Filippo)
• SoFiA-2 implementation into CARACal with new parameters in place (Dane)
• Polarisation calibration (Francesca's top priority)
• ddcal (Franscesca's second priority, Kshitij)
• RM (Francesca's lowest priority, Lexy)
• Latest (parallelised) MosaicQueen into Stimela and Caracal (Paolo)
• Adapting the user clean mask to the user cube along the spectral axis: includes going from wide to narrow chans, from narrow to wide chans, and making a channel selection. PR open. For now just channel rebinning / selection. May need improvement later. (Julia)
• Masking worker update / better integration into pipeline (Filippo)
• Check Sharpener (Filippo)
• Add tutorial / improve docs, both schema (nesting of parameters) and other pages, selfcal worker particularly bad (Julia, Paolo, Kshitij, Francesca). See https://diataxis.fr ?
• Add installation tutorial with video (Athanaseus)
• Add CARACal/radiopadre tutorial for ilifu.
• Add header with info to the code to help further development (Lexy)
• Improve / enhance diagnostics and reports.
• Change in resolution with Wsclean when activating sofia masking #1468 (Paolo)

[o-smirnov]

I have booked the conference facilities at Chapman's Peak Hotel, Hout Bay for 3-7 April.

I have asked them to reserve 10 single rooms for 2-8 April. I think it's time to make a spreadsheet for the participants so that we can nail down arrival and departure dates etc.

[o-smirnov]

Please sign yourself up via the spreadsheet. Hotel bookings will be made on that basis: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rxkH9-t7j9ijxXlJQLsmTOHs1ZSjvb7hR4Mqg6QwQ0M/edit?usp=sharing

[o-smirnov]

One (minor) item for the busy week: fix this properly: #1439

We can't stay pinned forever...