VLASS 2.0 Series Release Notes

New Features

2.0.1

• new pimscache tool
• SECI implementation
• image caching upon acceptance 

2.0.0

• Show calibration that will be produced from an observed scheduling block
• New VLASS Observing Progress Summary Chart visible on Tiles page
• Prevention of accidental duplicate job submission
• Cron Job to run the tile summary updates nightly
• Clean up and improvements to Deployment Framework
• Cron Task for restarting workflows
• Improvements to the Workflow Environment
• Updated qa.py to use absolute value for warning
• Fixed bug in pattern search for tiles
• Fixed bug where manager would pick up wrong version of sb or calibration
• corrected three tiles assigned to the wrong epic half for epoch 2
• misc. UI improvements

Known Issues

Release 2.2.1 - 2022.04.13

Engineering Task

• [SSA-7319] - pimcache split job failure for VLASS2.1.sb38606107.eb38625163.59092.29495140046 and VLASS2.1.sb38501480.eb38632936.59097.386918425924

Feature

• [SSA-7340] - Change pimscache to submit to vlass queue instead of vlasstest queue

Bug

• [SSA-7331] - pimscache split data not written to cache
• [SSA-7339] - "finished" semaphore file written before SECI split has populated PIMS cache

Release 2.2.0 - 2022.02.28

Feature

• [SSA-7292] - Update and Expansion of Caching list for SECI

Bug

• [SSA-7222] - SECI not getting QA notes or Component lists

Release 2.1.0 - 2021.10.25

Engineering Task

• [SSA-7070] - Further updates to qa.py
• [SSA-7136] - Move SqDeg2 tile to VLASS2.2
• [SSA-7151] - Vlass working directory change (with preventive testing)

Feature

• [SSA-7131] - Add tiles T25t10 and T26t10 to production database, Test Epoch
• [SSA-7138] - Integrate VLASS Single Epoch Continuum Imaging (SECI) into VLASS Manager Operations

Bug

• [SSA-7175] - "Negative zero" rears its head in PIMS directory naming

Release 2.0.1 - 2021.07.01

Epic

• [SSA-6537] - Implement PIMS Cache Tool
• [SSA-6543] - PIMS Cache/SE Continuum Workflow Integration
• [SSA-7017] - PIMS/SECI Validation Issues

Engineering Task

• [SSA-6924] - 01 Apr 21: Test manager product generation failure

Feature

• [SSA-6538] - Implement Check-Cache Subcommand
• [SSA-6540] - Implement Split-to-PIMS Subcommand
• [SSA-6541] - Implement Copy-to-Cache Subcommand
• [SSA-6542] - Implement Remove-from-Cache Subcommand
• [SSA-6544] - Implement SE Cont Imaging Workflow
• [SSA-6545] - Check PIMS Cache for MS
• [SSA-6546] - Implement SE Continuum imaging task
• [SSA-6547] - Implement the Split MS Workflow
• [SSA-6548] - Implement the Split MS Task
• [SSA-6549] - Implement the Populate PIMS Cache Task
• [SSA-6912] - Make pimscache generate book-keeping friendly output and workflow files
• [SSA-6913] - Make pimscache accept a CASA home parameter
• [SSA-6917] - pims & pimscache directory structure changes
• [SSA-6931] - allow members of 'vlapipe' group to execute workflow commands
• [SSA-6938] - Modify both workflows to write a “finished” file when the workflow is complete
• [SSA-6939] - Write a script to remove directories with the “finished” file that are older than 7 days
• [SSA-6940] - Make pimscache's copy command actually do move-to-cache
• [SSA-6995] - CLONE - pims & pimscache directory structure changes
• [SSA-7008] - SSECI component list generation

Bug

• [SSA-6992] - CLONE: VlassMgr products list (for SE)
• [SSA-6994] - pimscache behavior when splitting a PIMS that is already in cache
• [SSA-7013] - misspelling of job/execution type in VlassMgr
• [SSA-7014] - unable to view SE Continuum Image Jobs/Executions in VlassMgr
• [SSA-7015] - SECI Jobs and Executions in VlassMgr do not contain phasecenter or tile in name
• [SSA-7016] - SECI workflow is looking for "quicklook.json" file
• [SSA-7018] - the '-p' argument is broken
• [SSA-7019] - the CASA_HOME argument is broken
• [SSA-7026] - "Accept & Archive"d SE continuum images aren't being moved to cache

Release 2.0.0 - 2020.12.16

Epic

• [SSA-6556] - Provide Calibration Associated with SB
• [SSA-6557] - VLASS: Standardize Workflow Environment

Engineering Task

• [SSA-6558] - Cleanup deployment areas
• [SSA-6559] - Cron task for restarting workflow
• [SSA-6560] - Collate required workflow scripts
• [SSA-6561] - Workflow Environment Creation Script
• [SSA-6562] - Workflow Environment Activation Script
• [SSA-6563] - Incorporate New Tools Into Deployment Framework

Feature

• [SSA-6326] - VLASS Manager/Database: provide calibration product that is associated with SB product
• [SSA-6467] - VLASS observing progress summary
• [SSA-6489] - Cluster task of calibration not shown in VLASS Manager if run manually
• [SSA-6586] - VlassMngr: disallow duplicate job submission in short amount of time
• [SSA-6621] - VLASS Manager 2.0 UI updates
• [SSA-6632] - VLASS_dyn_summary.php: request to update automatically

Bug

• [SSA-6597] - Update qa.py to use absolute value to determine when to add warning to QA notes
• [SSA-6629] - Pattern search box in VlassMngr "Tiles" view does nothing, only hangs
• [SSA-6630] - Resubmission of VLASS Calibration jobs picking up failed EB instead of successful EB
• [SSA-6661] - VLASS imaging jobs point to failed EB instead of successful EB
• [SSA-6757] - Two (special) tiles with wrong VLASS half-epoch