Tuesday February 12, 2:00 pm N310 

Agenda: 

- Quick review of Pysynphot scope: 
 - more than ETCs 
 - supercedes synphot, with more functionality 
 - Development goals: 
 - Community goal: Release v1.0 with demo at ADASS (Nov 08) 
 - ETC deliverable: support all ETCs by 18.1 (Dec 08) 
 - ETC deliverable: documented new UI released with STSCI_PYTHON 2.8 (Feb 09) - Responsive development with local users to test & improve UI 

- Development strategy: 
 - Known/anticipated issues for COS ETC: 17.2 
 - Known/anticipated issues for other ETCs: 18.1 
 - Known/anticipated issues with current UI 
 - Improve stupid/annoying things in current UI 
 - Add requested functionality to current UI 
 - Housekeeping/internal: General housekeeping, CDBS, documentation 

- Tentative dates of interest: 
    1 Apr: Begin round 1 of UI testing 
 11 Apr: 17.2 software testing begins 
 1 May: 17.2 release 
 1 Jun: Begin round 2 of UI testing 
 1 Jul: ADASS submission deadline 
 1 Aug: STSCI_PYTHON 2.7 release 
 1 Nov: ADASS 
 1 Dec: 18.1 software testing begins 
 1 Feb: 18.1 software release 
 1 Feb: STSCI_PYTHON 2.8 release 
 1 Apr: CDBS-related cleanup 

- Can we split Pysynphot testing from ETC testing so INS can start now? 

- Overview of existing tickets, grouped by milestone 

- Use of Trac for ETC/pysynphot problem reporting 
