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Up: NOTE 218 Response to the Report of the Previous: General remarks

Specific comments

Scheduling of releases: We agree that a frequency of 6 months for $\beta$ releases is realistic and will avoid exhausting our testers' interest and patience, as well as our ability to respond.
Programmer's release: The advice on the relative importance of the programmer's release is particularly welcome.
Limited Public Release: With the exception of the end-to-end capability addressed above, we agree with the list of components deemed necessary for the release.
Stability of Glish, Table system and low-level library: We agree that these components have stabilized and we do intend to move people from developments in these areas towards applications development.
Graphics: It is true that our effort on graphics has resulted in a number of overlapping and redundant tools. We aim to consolidate these tools shortly.
Display Library: We agree with the priority of a visibility visualizer as a first application for the DL, and also with the expressed priority of an AIPSView replacement on a longer time-scale.
Documentation: Development of a cook-book is the highest priority for our AOC testers and is now proceeding.
Single Dish processing: Work on the analysis and reduction of multi-dimensional datasets will commence once the dish program is closer to a final product. We see such work as being closer to the corresponding work in synthesis than to dish itself, and we anticipate that many of the tools will be usable in both single dish and synthesis processing.
Platforms and compilers: We agree with the STAGs advice in these areas.
Parallelization: We will take care to keep the development of parallelized code in the correct proportion. We do regard this as a vital investment for the future.
Performance: Much of our performance testing has been in comparison with MIRIAD, and we intend to continue this work, expanding to difmap and other packages.
New functionality: We appreciate the advice concerning the importance of mosaicing, wide-field imaging and polarimetric imaging.

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