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Topics Review

  1. jBACI
    • Delivered with ACS
    • Incomplete
      • CTA Could try working on the missing bits, mainly the alarms support
  2. PyBACI
    • Skeleton
    • Not urgent, but desirable for some people
  3. Python 3
    • 2019OCT, 2019DEC, 2020FEB Python 2/3 compatible clients
      • Bug-fixes on newer versions
    • 2020APR Python 2/3 compatible for Containers, Clients, Simulated Components (acssim) and all that has been tested so far
    • Python 2/3 compatibility is only guaranteed until 2020JUN release, however it's most likely to stay compatible until several releases later
    • 2020APR will be made available somewhere by the end of May
  4. ACS Workshop
    • It is factible for ALMA to participate in an ACS workshop
    • We'll have to wait until the COVID-19 status improves globally
  5. CentOS Support
    • ACS is working fine in Centos 8 after a few backwards compatible changes (2020FEB)
      • PyOpenSSL version upgrade
      • Mico fix to use c++11
      • Only difference found during module's tests were:
        • Some minor output differences
        • Problems in acsdaemon module's tests where scripts hang indefinitely
          • Hasn't been investigated
    • This is not a priority for ALMA during this year
      • ALMA SW will probably be ported to RH 8 / CentOS 8 for Cycle 10 (Before 2021DEC release)
      • ACS could finish this task before as it is ~95-99% compatible at this point, but there is no commitment at this point due to observatory priorities
  6. CORBA Replacement
    • Most likely the first replacement will be the Notification Service
      • Already working on a plan to study (and implement) an alternative Notification Service for ACS
  7. Other topics
    • Documentation
      • Too many obsolete information
    • TAT v/s Unit
      • Documentation from CTA Collaborators
    • BulkData and ZeroMQ
    • Code Generation Survey
    • UML to IDL Code Generation
    • ACS Modernization
      • Moudularize ACS
      • CDB REST API idea
    • How to Keep the Community Alive
    • Easier Entry Point
      • Most important
      • Move documentation to Confluence
      • Yellow pages
    • CTA Review
      • Idea of formalizing ALMA and CTA relationship

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