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The 8th DFS Department meeting on December 7th, 2000

MAIN NEWS

• UK should join ESO by April 2002
• Steen Skole is responsible for DFS installation and follow-up at Paranal : he must always at least be CC for such topics.
• ESO wide review 18-23 January.
• VIMOS commissioning#1 is postponed (neither end of January, nor in February !).
• VIMOS dry-runs should also be postponed, anyway development of Mask Tracker tool is going on with same speed.
• UT1/UT2 have to be upgraded to HP-UX 11 by end of March.
• Michele presents the new manpower expected for 2001.

Other

• due to a bug (interference between UVES and FORS pipelines), MIDAS shoud be upgraded on UT1/UT2 : klaus has to prepare a plan to solve this problem.
• Karim briefly describes new QA rules and recommendations:
  • for managing To-Do lists: should be updated by each DFS project manager, and regularly reviewed.
  • a DFS integration procedure: specific schedule, standard Release Note, standard Test Report, ...
• Karim is also preparing a procedure for issue of documentation (see the first draft) in order to:
  • be consistent with the Technical Archive procedure,
  • centralize all internal DFS Department documents: original paper copies and corresponding files in one unique place, up-to-date documentation repository directly accessible from our DFS Department website.
• Karim will organize a code review by end of January as experiment with some developers. The main goal will be to check some basic coding rules. Details about holding this review will be presented by Karim by mid-January.
• slides presented by Karim (StarOffice format).

Open discussion

• A presentation of SNIFF should be organized by Carlos for the next DFS Department meeting.
• We need documentation for design. The use of tools such as TogetherJ/Rational Rose should be promoted, but we have first to find corresponding resources.

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