Draft minutes of phone meeting on 17 Feb 2000
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Attended by : Barry Clark, Brian Glendenning, Robert Lucas, Jeff
  Mangum, John Richer, Joe Schwarz, Peter Schilke, Steve Scott,
  Francois Viallefond, Mel Wright.

We only discussed the drafted report. I note here the main comments or
  modifications to be done (note that the discussion continued by
  email, see later mails by Barry, Steve, Mel).

General:
 
- The report should be backed by numbers. We'll try as much as
  possible, eg for data rates, size of archive, ...  For data rates we
  may use 3 MB/s average or 30 MB/s sustained over a single observing
  project.

- We agreed that priorities will only be included at a later stage.

On section 2: 

- VLBI and ephemeris-based projects (events) should be mentionned in
  the scheduled observations as having a top priority at a given time.

- atmospheric variables, and pipeline generated variables can be
  available as globals to the scripting language to be used for
  dynamic scheduling and flow control

- mark the script language features as desireable.

- correlator setup tool should be described, as its effect on the sample 
  template.

On proposal input:

- the existence of two phases should be made more explicit

On archiving:

- the scientific description of the project should be archived too, as
  well as history of pipeline data processing.
- cite VLT not J.S.

On pipeline:

- among motivations: ease of use for naive users should be mentionned.

- pipeline should be run at or near telescope (for quasi-realtime) and
  at place where official archives is kept.


Contributors should send updated texts as soon as possible. Can you
  preferably retrieve the *.tex files on the web page and work the
  changes on these ?  It makes integration easier since they have dates
  and version numbers.


Next meeting in march, to discuss first comments by report
  readers (if any), and what to do next. I propose March 23rd, 17:00 UT.

R. Lucas