2021 02/TBD - TBD UT

Attendees

Contact Information

• Doodle: https://doodle.com/poll/5qi9fg5nfny3yvft
• Zoom Details: 
  • Link: https://alma.zoom.us/j/96499824839?pwd=cTN6RWdXcEwxeEx2ZUFsWUZ0N1RWQT09
  • Pass: acscomm

Action Items from previous meeting:

• ACS Documentation
  • Unknown User (leonardo.baroncelli) repository with examples
  • Blog for specific topics weekly
    • Joseph Schwarz provided a list of initial topics
      
      • Hot-Swap Java components
      • ACS Service and Container daemons (plus how to configure them for CentOS 7 and 8)
      • Interface Repository and the role it plays, e.g., for the Object Explorer
      • Logging System design and use of Elastic Search in ALMA
      • Sampling System
      • Master Component (with example of its use)

Updates since last Meeting:

• 2020DEC + 2021FEB Release
• ACS Python 3 Porting
  • Python 3 made official in 2020AUG

• ACS Changes

  • Obsolescence Management Roadmap

    • TAO (6.5.11)
    • Removed Mico
    • Removed log4cpp
    • Recommendation to install cppunit from O.S. (It's still installed along with ACS if not found)
    • ExternalDependencies directory to move out 3rd party software from ACSROOT/INTLIST/INTROOT into ALMASW_INSTDIR/ExternalDependencies
      • This makes it easier to install these software directly into the OS if desired
  • Monitoring timestamp now retrieved from DevIO
  • Upgraded Pmw package for Python 3 compatibility
  • Fix in Makefile linking which gave priority to .a over .so files, leading to some unexpected crashes under some specific conditions
  • JAR files targets in ACS Makefile are now creating artifacts in M2 repository with the 'install' command
    • The rule is:
      • ArtifactId: JAR name
      • GroupId: Module name
      • Version:
        • If ALMASW_RELEASE follows ACS-YYYYMMM, then YYYY.MM (ACS-2021FEB → 2021.02)
        • If ALMASW_RELEASE is not following that standard, then it's used explicitly as version
    • A new command 'deploy_all' was added to ACS Makefile, which is intended to deploy artifacts to a remote repository

2020 Planning:

• Communication and Collaboration
  • Docker Hub ACS Image
  • Issue Tracking platform for the community
  • Confluence Page Access
  • Fork/Branches on public repository
  • Slack as Community Chat
• Re-design Notification Channels
• BulkData
• Obsolescence Management
• C++ Modernization Project

Other institutions plans and proposed topics

• Significance of OpenJDK warning: Archived non-system classes are disabled because the java.system.class.loader property is specified (value - "alma.acs.classloading.AcsSystemClassLoader")...
  • This was fixed in 2020DEC
• Mock container services for unit/integration testing
• CentOS and CentOS Stream

Any other business?

Conclusions/Action Items