Minutes from SSS Mtg 2008-Jun-10
 
Attendees: B.Butler,    D.Harland,  B.Hesman,
           G.v.Moorsel, J.Rochford, B.Truitt


We kept this meeting short in order to accommodate those who
wanted to attend the summer school sessions.

The programmers pointed out only a few of the newer items
in the tools.  In the source catalog tool:

  * Reorganization of the source-detail-tabs.

  * Ability to add hyperlinks to a source.

  * ATCA catalog.

  * GIF files in VLBA catalog.

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Some comments from scientists:

  1. VLA calibrator quality: place in the user-defined value (UDV)
     area to accommodate searches.  Also keep it as is in the notes area.
     [New JIRA issue: EVL-635]

  2. Users need to know how to interpret the VLA quality codes.
     We should have a link to the explanation of calibrator codes.
     [New JIRA issue: EVL-636]

  3. Give higher priority to searching for sources.
     [JIRA EVL-300]

  4. Should we disallow grouping for user catalogs?  Issue is the
     confusion over relationship between catalogs, groups, and items.
     (A Catalog hold items.  A group holds pointers to items in its catalog.)
     Conclusion: leave as is for now.  When we get more people using the
     tool we'll see if we have a problem or not.
     [New JIRA issue: EVL-637]

  5. Should we highlight newly pasted items in a catalog?
     [New JIRA issue: EVL-638]

  6. The programmers have permission to  proceed with the restriction
     that an individual scan may have an end time, a duration, or a
     time-on-source, but not a start time.  (Remember that the scheduling
     block holding the scans may use a start time, if it is a "fixed date" SB.)

June 30 - make go/no-go decision for using new OPT for Ka-band call.
If the choice is "go", then we can get others involved in testing.
Pool could be AOC, all NRAO, users' committee.

Brian T. will be out next week.

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