2021 09/15 - 12:00 UT

Attendees

Contact Information

• Doodle: https://doodle.com/poll/4krswbif2yn46t2d
• Zoom Details: 
  • Link: https://alma.zoom.us/j/87447850085?pwd=VXVGNWhNTWp6WDRTTGVPbUpzbjZlZz09
  • Pass: acs2021Q3

Action Items from previous meeting:

Updates since last Meeting:

• 2021APR + 2021JUN + 2021AUG + 2021OCT Release

• ACS Changes

  • Obsolescence Management Roadmap

    • Java (24 upgrades)
    • Python (25 upgrades)
    • OmniORBpy (4.2.4)
    • astyle (3.1)
    • Recommendation to install doxygen and graphviz from O.S. (It's still installed along with ACS if not found 1.8.5 + 2.30.1)
    • Fixed ACE/TAO config-*.h files to be compatible with newer O.S.
    • oAW: No longer installing as a module, now we use the version provided by ACS Eclipse installation
  • C++ container initialization reduced (3 seconds sleep removed)
  • C++ clients can be restarted (unit testing)
  • Acssim setMethod/setMethodIF now receives fully-compliant Python code blocks
    • This may break some implementations that used to write the return value on the last line without actually putting "return ..."
  • Alternative XML Schema bindings for Java are being prepared using JAXB XJC technology
    • Both castor and jaxb bindings are created with the XSDBIND directive and are packaged in the same JAR file
    • If castor's code generated package is 'test.xx.yy', then xjc one is 'test.xx.yy.jaxb
  • ACS Maven artifacts now consider transitive dependencies
  • ACS Python packages ready to be deployed on custom Pypi servers
  • Add support to longLongSeq and uLongLongSeq BACI properties
    • Complete Java and Python support of original BACI properties
  • Python 3.8 support
    • Default is still 3.6 
    • 2022FEB will remove Python 2.7 and 3.6 support and set 3.8 as default
  • Notification Channel fix after re-initialization

2021 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
  • ActiveMQ Prototype
• BulkData
  • ZeroMQ Prototype
  • OpenDDS Implementation
• Obsolescence Management
• C++ Modernization Project
  • Logging system study, improvements and redesign plans

Other institutions plans and proposed topics

• BCS Presentation: Specialiazed ACS Python Client – ~10-15 minutes – Dominik Neise
• Blog / Documentation
  •  Completions
    • What is code generated from ACSERRDEF and what needs to be implemented by the developers?
    • Hands-on each programming language
      • Including the check of the completion's state
  • Alarm System documentation seems a bit stale
    • Is the latest documentation (~2014) still valid?
    • Could it be updated and moved to Confluence?
  • More simple examples for all programming languages
    • It seems Java has received more attention, but it would be nice to have examples in all programming languages

Any other business?

Conclusions/Action Items