Administrative Stuff

• WeeklyReports - Please put your weekly reports here.
• ActionList - The current action list.
• TaskList - The current task list.
• TaskListDiscussion - Discussion page about using the task list

• ProblemsFound - a list of reported bugs. Put any bugs your find in here. You never know, if you let us know about them someone might fix them sometime.

Key Documentation

Key documents are:

• Development Plan, Final

• Design document, Final

The SSR Wiki links to the Software Science Requirements and Detailed requirements.

Release Planning

Release 6

• PlanningForRelease6dot1 - Plans for Release 6.1
• PlanningForRelease6dot0 - Plans for Release 6.0

Release 5

Release 4

Release 3

Release 2

Release 1

Overall Plans

• RoadMap - A roadmap of future ObsPrep development.

Designs And Discussions

In Current Use

• TotalPower - Discussions on Total Power observing.
• SidebandRepresentation - how do we represent the various side band types (NSB, 2SB etc)?
• DerivingTheCorrelatorSetup - A first go at an algorithm to derive the spectral window correlator setups from sceince goal spectral setups.
• IntegrationTimesAndDurations - Discussion on the meaning and derivation of times and durations
• ArchiveStoreRetrieve - The entry page for the broad range of questions regarding project submission
• IconsForTheTool - A page describing the icons needed in the OT and the concepts for them
• PhaseWorkflow - A discussion on how to present the workflow from Phase I through to system setup.
• UnderstandingTheCorrelator - Our current understanding of the ALMA correlator capabilities (with TFB)
• WorkBooks - some gubbins about workbooks, mainly meant as an aide memoire for David
• Validation - What we need to do to turn the Validation from a potentially good thing into a Good Thing^TM

Full List

Useful Developer Stuff

• Auto-Deployed OT

• DevelopmentNews - where new classes, features, etc. are announced.

• CookBooks - how to do implement various things in the OT so that they fit in with what we have already.

• ThingsWeNeedToComeBackTo - somewhere to note all those wee things that we come across and think "we'll sort that later", because later does actually happen.

• FaqList - WTFs for building/running the ObsPrep stuff

• Unit Test Review - a review of what we unit-test, and how

• ScratchPad - Place to put ad hoc junk

User Stuff

User Tests

• UserTest5dot1 - Interim user test, December 2008
• UserTest5dot0 - 5th main user test, May 2008
• UserTest4dot1 - Light test, August 2007
• UserTest4dot0 - 4th main user test, January 2007
• UserTest3dot1 - Light test, post refactoring, August 2006
• UserTest3dot0 - The 3rd main user test, November 2005
• OlderTests

User Documents

• UserDocumentation - DEVELOPERS - enter your User documentation here

• Moving to a new release
• HolographyHowTo - How to use the OT to create Holography SBs
• OpticalPointingHowTo - How to use the OT for the optical pointing tests
• OpticalPointingTargetFiltering - How the Tycho-2 catalogue is filtered, to produce a target list for optical pointing
• VisualSpectralEditorQuickStart - a brief note on how to get the Visual Spectral Editor up and running on your screen, targettted at testing for ACA Correlator FBT II.

Screen Shots

• SampleScreenShots - updated from time to time.

The ALMA Project Data Model

APDM Version Tracking

• APDMChangesBetweenVersions

Current and Recent Activities

• Web browsable version of current APDM (Post ACA integration)
  • Schemata.tar.gz: The associated Schemata
• Web browsable version of APDM as currently at the ATF (ALMA-5.0.3).

• OutstandingAPDMChanges - A list of changes to be made to the APDM at some point.
• TheBigAPDMRefactoring - The FBT for carrying out the APDM refactor and some other changes

Older pages can be found in The ALMA Project Data Model

Meetings etc.

• MeetingMinutes - Minutes of the fortnightly meetings, plus any others worth minuting.
• FaceToFaceMar08 - Notes for Mar08 team meeting
• FaceToFaceOct07 - Notes for Oct07 team meeting
• FaceToFaceMay07 - Notes for May07 team meeting
• FaceToFaceSep06 - Goals and notes for Sep06 team meeting
• JointMeetingALMAEVLA
• FaceToFaceOct05 - Goals and notes for Oct05 team meeting
• FaceToFaceMay05 - Goals and notes for May05 team meeting
• FaceToFaceFeb05 - Goals and notes for Feb05 team meeting
• FaceToFaceJuly04 - Plans for our face to face meeting in July 2004.
• FaceToFaceMarch04 - Notes from our face to face meeting in March 2004.
• NotesFromSantaFe - Notes from the Santa Fe design meeting of relevance to the ObsPrep subsystem