Connection

• Doodle: TBD https://doodle.com/poll/9qcfg8yvdphiuhd9
• Date: TBD 2021-02-11 – 21:00 UT
• Zoom: TBD
  • Link: https://alma.zoom.us/j/92932405526?pwd=UTRZemxaZTg5MjYrOVdUc1ExWGNnQT09
  • pass: acsreqs

Participants

Agenda

Short Term (2021APR / 2021JUN)

• Maintenance (Bug-fixing / Improvements)
• Obsolescence Management
  • Integrate 2021FEB Work on obsolescence
  • Tcl/Tk – 2021FEB
    • Considering waiting on RHEL / CentOS 8 upgrade, to remove the dependency altogether due to complex compilation process
  • Python3 (8 packages) – 2021APR
  • Java (8 packages) – 2021APR
  • Move External Dependencies (Some of ACS' Tools) out of ACS build and into ExtProd
    • cppunit was moved as part of 2021FEB for testing out along with searchFile script and C++, Python and Java counterparts improvements to look into the new path ($ALMASW_INSTDIR/ExternalDependencies)
    • Other tools will start being moved – 2021APR
• Generate Maven Artifacts for ACS Jars
  • Done in 2021FEB for local repository
    • New target 'deploy_all' was added to upload artifacts to maven repository
  • Discuss appropriate ways to configure the destination repostiroy for artifacts (Env variable, Maven settings.xml, etc.) – 2021APR
• C++ Modernization – Threading – 2021JUN
  • (Ralph) I asked NRAO developers and none of them is waiting for this.  It's can be done at a later time.
• Summer Internships
  • BulkData Alernative (ZeroMQ-based) – ongoing
  • Notification Channel Alternatives (Investigate Technologies) – ongoing
  • Evaluate feasibility of integrating the results as part of ACS – 2021JUN/2021AUG)

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