VALD development workshop

Vienna, 15-19 Sep 2008

Participants

Confirmed:

• Christian 15-18 Sep: Mon morning, Tue afternoon, Wed, Thu
• Eric
• Fritz 15-17 Sep 15.00
• Luca
• Marlene
• Nicole except Tue 16 Sep
• Nik 15-17 Sep
• Oleg
• Tanya
• Theresa
• Ulli 15-18 Sep
• Werner

Unconfirmed:

• Rimma

Cannot come:

• Paul
• Bertrand (may be contacted during workshop by mail or phone: +33 467 144 891)

Daily schedule (guideline)

• 10.00-12.30 Morning session
  Monday:

  • VALD general status, updates, news (Ulli)
  • Round of statements (all)

  • Confirm schedule and work plan
    

  Tuesday:

  • test wiki and svn
• 12.30: Lunch

• 14.00-15.30 Afternoon session 1
  Wednesday:

  • Report from groups, before Nik and Fritz leave
  • Adjustment of work plan for rest of week
  • Marie Lise Dubernet on VAMDC EU-proposal
• 15.30 Coffee
• 16.00-18.30 Afternoon session 2
• Tuesday, 16 Sep - dinner at Stiegl-Ambulanz

Work plan

• VALD development tool - svn (Eric, all)

  • Monday write VALD svn user's guide (Eric, after example from Gaia - see GAIA-C1-TN-ESAC-JSH-011-1-Subversion_User_Guide_for_DPAC.pdf , GAIA-C1-TN-ESAC-JSH-011-svn-guide.tex , VALD_svn_Users_Guide.txt )

  • Tuesday, 10.00 test svn (all, following user's guide)

• VALD communication tool - wiki (Ulli, all) Tuesday, 10.00

  • show (Ulli)

  • practice (all)

• Tools (Nik, Christian, Fritz) Monday to Wednesday

  1. conversion tools (fortran "filter" program by Christian, IDL code by Nik)

     • which ones to use? both? -> svn!
       frippe:/h11/piskunov/VALD3/PRESELECT/vald3_ascii2bin.pro
       jan:/home/vald/tools/vald-filter.0.4.5

  2. extraction tools
     • merge different versions (Vienna/Uppsala) and produce final VALD3 version

  3. put all software under svn ( Tuesday afternoon )

  4. implement reference list
  5. update documentation (also under svn!)

• Database testing (Nicole, Theresa, Marlene) whole week

  1. make software test plan (for extraction tools, web interface, EMS,

     • starting from Nik's list, see attachment:test.map, preselect3 documentation, see preselect3.txt and valdadmin e-mails), including test files, e.g. configuration files, documentation

  2. run tests, document, save (correct) output -> benchmark tests

• Atomic line lists (Tanya, Luca) whole week

  • verification
  • VALD-3 format

• Molecular line lists (Ulli, Oleg) Monday to Thursday

  • select (TiO, H2O), prepare, include, test, verify

• VALD web page (Eric, Christian) Thursday and Friday (Nik and Fritz have left)

  • check documentation
  • update for VALD-3
  • update web interface (if necessary)
• Papers

  • Tanya and Nik - make schedule for work on papers!

  • REE data - Tanya et al.

  • Fe-peak and other elements (Lund etc.) - Tanya et al.

  • Molecular data, including technical description of VALD-3 - Nik et al.