Connection

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• Date: 2021-04-XX – XX:XX UT
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Participants

Agenda

Short Term (2021JUN / 2021AUG)

• Maintenance (Bug-fixing / Improvements)
• Obsolescence Management
  • Integrate 2021FEB Work on obsolescence
  • Python3 (8 packages) – 2021JUN
  • Java (9 packages) – 2021JUN
  • 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)
    • In 2021APR astyle and doxygen/graphviz were moved to External Dependencies
    • More tools will be moved – 2021JUN
• 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 repository for artifacts (Env variable, Maven settings.xml, etc.) – 2021APR
  • Script to generate custom POM file for managing dependencies - 2021JUN
    • Will also take advantage to also create script to generate setup.py for Python dependencies
  • Add dependency information in ACS Makefile (propagated to generated POM files) – 2021AUG
• ACS New Makefile (ARCHIVE + ICD)
  • ACS Build Farm building ACS w/ new makefile
  • Initial work being carried by ACS/Common, using work by Patrick on ICD as starting point
• 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.
  • As discussed in previous meeting, this will be optional, if time allows
• 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)

Mid Term (2021AUG --> 2021DEC)

• RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Coordination
  • Roll-out a plan and discuss the feasibility of making the software compatible with RHEL 7 and 8 by Cycle 9
    • Draft in RHEL 8 Migration Plan
  • There are some constrains with kernel module development which may push the change to Cycle 10
• ACS C++ Modernization SmartPointers – Likely 2021OCT/2021DEC

Long Term (TBD)

• Redesign C++ Logging
• Java Modules

Other Input

Not Relevant

Conclusions

2021FEB

* Tentative base for 2021FEB until the meeting has been held

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