Connection

• Doodle: https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/eX6784vb
• Date: TBD – XX:00 UT
• Zoom details will be sent out in an e-mail

Participants

Agenda

Short Term (2022AUG)

• Maintenance (Bug-fixing / Improvements)
  
  • Reduce the number of warnings in ACS source code
  • Prevent Castor logs flooding
• Obsolescence Management
  • RHEL 8 only release
  • No obsolescence management since 2022AUG is bug-fix only release
  • Improve SCCB changes impact assessment – 2022AUG
    • ACS Build Farm will build the ALMA SW before an early pre-release
    • Subsystems will be warned whether their subsystems need to fix anything for the upcoming changes
      • This will be done in the same e-mail sent with the early pre-release tarballs
      • We will collaborate with IRM for the creation of relevant tickets around the same date
    • The objective is to make sure all subsystems are made compile-compatible before the release date
• C++ Modernization
  • TENTATIVELogging Service refactoring/change of technology – 2022AUG → 2022DEC
• Component Caller API Security proposal – 2022AUG
• Continue NC implementation study – 2022AUG → 2022OCT
• Make the coverage mechanics work again – 2022AUG → 2022OCT

Mid Term (2022OCT --> 2022DEC)

• Obsolescence Management
  • Python dependencies (9) – 2022OCT
  • Java Dependencies (TBD) – 2022OCT
• Development and Community OS Support
  • Jenkins Build + Phase A tests
    • Other operating systems?
• ComponentCaller API Security Implementation – 2022DEC

Long Term (TBD)

• Java 17 – 2023APR+
  • Will be scheduled for some point during 2023 aiming to Cycle 11 (2024-10 deployment) – 2023APR+
• Jakarta EE 9+ / Hibernate 6+ / Spring 6+ / Springboot 3+ / Tomcat 10+ (Java-17 and Jakarta EE 9 baseline for spring framework 6) – 2023JUN+
• ACS Services Modernization
  
  • ZeroMQ-based BulkData transfer implementation
  • CDB API alternative (REST, SOAP, G-RPC, Falcor, ICE, etc.)
  • Logging system technology replacement (Boost::Log, etc.)
  • Interface Repository (???)
  • Naming Service (???)

De-scoped:

• Java Modules

Other Input

Not Relevant

Conclusions

2022AUG

* Tentative base for 2022AUG until the meeting has been held

Priorities

1. Maintenance
2. Reduce/Remove ACS source code warnings
3. NC Implementation Study
4. Component Caller API Security Proposal
5. Official OS Support (Development + Community)

Action Items