Connection

• Doodle: https://doodle.com/poll/am8ensgsfwg9emhs
• Date: 2022-02-10 – 22:00 UT
• Zoom details will be sent out in an e-mail

Participants

Agenda

Short Term (2022APR)

• Maintenance (Bug-fixing / Improvements)
  • Callbacks between C++ components fail after a full antenna restart () – 2022APR
  • Phase A tests reports improvements () – 2022APR
  • Phase A test stabilization for RHEL 8 () – 2022APR
• Obsolescence Management
  • RHEL 7 and 8 releases
  • Change Default C++ Standard to C++17 () – 2022APR
  • CORBA Vendors
    • ACE/TAO (7.0.6+) () – 2022APR
    • OmniORBpy (4.3.0+) () – 2022APR
  • Core Tools
    • PyEnv (2.2.3+) () – 2022APR
  • If RHEL 8, following third party packages should be installed by the O.S.:
    • Tcl/Tk (8.6.8) () – 2022APR
    • Ant (1.10.5) – 2022APR
  • Upgrade third party fallback version (Not relevant for ALMA)
    • Tcl/Tk (8.6.8) () – 2022APR/2022JUN
  • Python dependencies (13) upgrade () – 2022APR
    • Remove: linecache2, logilab-astng, logilab-common, nose, test-generator, traceback2, unittest2
    • Install: nose2
    • Upgrade: pip + 5 dependencies
  • Java Dependencies (15) upgrade () – 2022APR
    • Remove: jms, xtmodcoll
    • Install: commons-collections4, jakarta.jms-api, javax.jms-api
    • Upgrade: 10 dependencies
  • Planning for 2022 releases – 2022APR
• BulkDataNT RTI DDS Improvements – 2022APR
  • Performance improvements 700+ MB/s over 10 Gbps link () – 2022APR
  • Synthetic tests can be run in standalone mode ( -g flag to be used without ACS) () – 2022APR
• C++ Modernization
  
  • Standard C++ Smart Pointers ()
    • SCCB () + Rollout – 2022APR 
• Component skeleton code generation () – 2022APR
• Development and Community OS Support ()
  • Jenkins Build + Phase A tests
    • Debian 10/11 () – 2022APR
    • Ubuntu 20.04/22.04  () – 2022APR

Mid Term (2022JUN --> 2022AUG)

• Obsolescence Management
  • RHEL 7 and 8 releases – 2022JUN
    • We expect 2022JUN to be the latest RHEL 7 release
  • Maven, Eclipse – 2022JUN
  • Python dependencies (12) – 2022JUN
  • Python dependencies (9) – 2022OCT
  • Java Dependencies (TBD) – 2022JUN
  • Java Dependencies (TBD) – 2022OCT
• C++ Modernization
  • Replace ACE_TSS by C++11 standard thread_local (2022JUN) –  
  • Replace the use of LokiSingleton by C++11 local static variable (2022JUN) – 
  • Analyze refactoring or replacement of logging service
• Development and Community OS Support
  • Jenkins Build + Phase A tests
    • Others operating systems?
• ComponentCaller API Security

Long Term (TBD)

• Java 17 – 2023APR+
  • Will be scheduled for some point during 2023 aiming to Cycle 11 (2024-10 deployment)
• 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
  • Continue NC implementation study
  • ZeroMQ-based BulkData transfer implementation
• CDB API alternative (REST, SOAP, G-RPC, Falcor, ICE, etc.)

De-scoped:

• Java Modules

Other Input

Not Relevant

Conclusions

2022APR

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

Priorities

1. Maintenance
2. New Makefile Support
3. C++ ACS Smart Pointers
4. BulkDataNT Improvements
5. Obsolescence Management
6. Component skeleton code-generation
7. Phase A Tests Stabilization
8. Official OS Support (Development + Community)

Action Items