Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 10:53:13 -0700 
From: Valerie Henderson <Valerie.L.Henderson@jpl.nasa.gov> 
Subject: Preparations for Cassini delivery. 
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Preparations for the first delivery from Cassini are underway. The first 
release date is officially July 1, with releases scheduled every three 
months thereafter. Cassini will be delivering volumes on hard media, and 
making use of the Subscription Manager to announce releases.   

The project has also requested a delivery cycle in May of two volumes 
that are ready fro release from RPWS. This early release will give us a 
chance to run through our processes and test things out beforehand. 

For the next two months a number of us will be involved in seting up for 
Cassini. I have attached a draft schedule (pdf) with my best guess at 
times and assignments. I would like you all to review and give me your 
feedback. This will be our next very public delivery, and it is 
important that all of you who will be involved understand and have input 
in to the schedule and tasks.

The Cassini delivery will involve a couple of preparatory steps that 
will hopefully make the process run smoother internally. We are 
requesting 2 ingestion catalog objects (as opposed to archive catalog 
objects to be submitted on volumes). These objects will provide a 
mechanism for the input of a number of keywords that are not currently 
in the archive catalog files, but are necessary to drive the PDS Search 
Interface (e.g. curating node id, resource urls, release information). 
SCRs have been input into the Standards queue, for more information see: 
http://stardev.jpl.nasa.gov/bugzero/jsp/edit.jsp?projectId=Standards&ent
ryId=67 & 
http://stardev.jpl.nasa.gov/bugzero/jsp/edit.jsp?projectId=Standards&ent
ryId=68).

Other setup steps include: modifying the Data Dictionary and Ingestion 
Tools to accept the new objects if approved, setting up the Subscription 
Manager, loading Basic Browser, etc.  Please see the attached schedule 
for details, and please get back to me if I have omitted anything, or if 
anything needs to be changed.

Finally, a heads up on our Build Schedule: Note the Cassini releases 
coincide with the Odyssey Releases. We are doing two build a month for 
quite awhile. Below is a chart out through 2006 (I will post an updated 
Build schedule shortly).

Build Schedule:

May 30, 2005     1R58   Cassini (RPWS)

July 1, 2005    1R59    Cassini Delivery 1
                       Odyssey Delivery 12
                        
July 22, 2005   1R60    MER Release 5   

Oct. 4, 2005    1R61    Cassini Delivery 2
                       Odyssey Delivery 13
                        
Oct. 21, 2005   1R62    MER Release 6   

Jan. 4, 2006    1R63    Cassine Delivery 3
                       Odyssey Delivery 14

Jan. 27, 2006   1R64    MER Release 7   

Apr. 4, 2006    1R65    Cassini Delivery 3
                       Odyssey Delivery 15

Apr. 25, 2006   1R66    MER Release 8   

* Cassini deliveries through 9/2008
**ODY Radio Science as available