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AWIPS Software Recommendation and Evaluation Committee (SREC) Monthly Status Meeting. September 25, 2006 Systems Engineering Center. Agenda. OB8 Planning Remaining SREC Activities Documentation Needed Process for SREC Updates to OB8 DR Team DR Backlog Next Meeting Action Item Review.
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AWIPS Software Recommendation and Evaluation Committee (SREC) Monthly Status Meeting September 25, 2006 Systems Engineering Center
Agenda • OB8 Planning • Remaining SREC Activities • Documentation Needed • Process for SREC Updates to OB8 • DR Team • DR Backlog • Next Meeting • Action Item Review
Remaining OB8 SREC Activates • Step 10: Validate/Approve Release Content (August) • S&T Committee • Responsibility: SREC Vice Chair (information provided to S&T) • Step 11: Prepared Change Requests for AWIPS CCB approval (August) • Responsibility: SREC Vice Chair (information provided to CCB) • Step 12: Provide the OCWWS Training Division with approved software build contents for inclusion to the NSTEP process (August) • Responsibility: Executive Secretary (information provided to Michael Szkil) • Step 13: Identify SREC Focal Points for each OB8 development item (August) • Responsibility: SREC Vice Chair (completed)
Documentation Needed for OB8 • Need to complete OSIP Documentation for: • Infrastructure • (xx-xxx) OB8.2: Transfer of RFC Precipitation Bias Info to RPG (Lynott) • (xx-xxx) OB8.2: Radar Acquisition Improvements (NCF) • (xx-xxx) OB8.3: Port to NCEP GRIB2 Decoder (Gockel) • Strategic • (04-007) OB8.1-3: DHM (Cajina) • (06-054) OB8.1: Transition to GOES-N (Heil) • (xx-xxx) OB8.1: Aviation Forecast Preparation System (Graf) • (05-060) OB8.3: GIS for RFCs (Graffman) • (06-003) OB8.3: GIS for NWS (Richards) • (05-083) OB8.3: FNMOC Wave Watch Model Guidance (OST – McAloon) • (xx-xxx) OB9: Ensembles (OST - Nandi) • (05-081) OB9: NWS AWIPS Software Training Capability (Training - Magsig) • (xx-xxx) OB9: WHFS SSHP Model • (05-038) OB9: 4D Weather Information (Johnston, Graf)
Documentation Needed for OB8 • Need to complete OSIP Documentation for: • A&C • (06-011) OB8.1: Guardian (Filiaggi) • (06-040) OB8.1 NWRWAVE Enhancements (Browning, Nathan) • (06-020) OB8.2: GFE Formatter for WFO Tropical Cyclone Hazard Graphics (Schott) • (06-026) OB8.2: Headline Flexibility for Long Duration Products (Stokols) • (06-029) Ob8.2: Attribution phrase in long-duration products (Stokols) • (06-042) OB8.2: Add Lake Effect attribute to GFE (Stokols) • (05-042) OB8.3: Enhance Chat Server (Hopkins)
Process for SREC Updates • Request official nominations (Completed) • Items on next slide • Gather OSIP documentation (Completed) • Obtain LOE from development organizations (in progress) • Evaluate and Recommend Changes (if necessary)
Process for SREC Updates • Nominations for OB8 (completed) • Strategic • (06-058-61) New CONOPS – NWS Corporate Board • (06-062) Risk reduction Through GFESuite Pre-Releases – PR (Ward), ER (Novak) • Infrastructure • (xx-xxx) Ensure AWIPS baseline applications can be executed by users who run Korn Shell – RFC (Ostrowski) • (xx-xxx) Add a PYpqSQL module for AWIPS Python - SR (Howieson) • (xx-xxx) Removing Redundant files from Shapefiles – GSD (Ramer) • (06-073) Remove Obsolete Data sets – NCEP/SEC (Gordon/ Gockel) • A&C • (xx-xxx) Excellent New Precipitable Water Web Page (WR – Edman) • (05-082) Gridded Icing/Turb/CB products for World Area Forecasts – OCWWS (Graf) • (06-068) Higher Resolution QuikSCAT - OST/OCWWS – (Schrab/Heil) • (06-057) Standardize Hydromet Report Format of PNS – OCWWS (Thomas) • (xx-xxx) Reinstatement of Fire Weather/IMET Support – ER (Waldstreicher), CR (Noonan), OCWWS (Thomas), WR (Mollner)
Process for SREC Updates • Gather OSIP Documentation (completed) • OSIP documentation completed for: • (06-058-61) New CONOPS • Enough to begin exploratory research evaluation (prototyping) to finalize the Stage 2 CONOPS/ORD • (06-062) Risk reduction Through GFESuite Pre-Releases – PR (Ward), ER (Novak) • Through OSIP Stage 2 • Other items need at a minimum Gate 1 and 2 material (SON, Project Plan, CONOPS/ORD) • These will be reviewed at the OB8.2 (January 2007) and OB8.3 (June 2007) SREC reviews
Process for SREC Updates • Obtain LOE from Development Organizations • Completed for: • (06-058-61) New CONOPS • Exploratory research evaluation (prototyping) to finalize the Stage 2 CONOPS/ORD • Level of effort 116 staff months of GSD staff • Will require delaying the following development activates assigned to GSD • OB8 - Backlog Drs (2m) • OB8 - Stack Tracing (0.4m) • OB9 - Next Generation Warning Tool (4m) • OB9 - Ensembles/Probabilistic Forecasting (8m) • OB9 - AWIPS Software training capability (8m) • OB9 - AWIPS Evolution: Visualization techniques (16m) • In progress for the following task: • (06-062) Risk reduction Through GFESuite Pre-Releases – PR (Ward), ER (Novak)
Process for SREC Updates • Evaluate and Recommend Changes (if necessary) • SREC Vice Chairperson will evaluate the LOE estimates, availability of resources, and release schedule and propose options • SREC Voting members will review the options and recommend a change to OB8 baseline • Note: Any new addition will usually require taking something off the list unless noted by the development organization • SREC Voting members will ratify the proposed change • Development Organizations will be notified
DR team • Review of DR Backlog • Objective • Prioritize Unassigned DRs and Assign to a release • Results • Cancel or OBE (11 majors and 28 minors) • Retest and Close (46 majors and 24 minors) • OB8.1 (53 majors and 59 minors) • OB8.2 (51 majors and 26 minors) • OB8.3 (13 Majors and 50 minors) • DR Team is validating the release assignments • Looking to complete this task by October 15, 2006
Next Meeting • Regular meeting on October 30 at 2:00pm EDT
Actions • Old Action Items • Review of Charter – Adding the DR process. (Working under review by DR team) • Address limited access to SREC website and AWIPS One-Stop Shop. SREC suggests implementing a password policy (Completed) • https://sec.noaa3a.awips.noaa.gov/srec/ • https://sec.noaa3a.awips.noaa.gov/srec/SREC_DR_Team.htm • Insure that NWS CONOPS is provided the necessary resources to meet the objectives of the group (Working) • Implement proposed plan to look at new items to be consider for OB8 (Completed)