Summary of meeting held in "Aula Rosa" on 12 Apr 2010

• AO Arbitrator
  • fix the management of failure status from W and AdSec arbitrators
  • Sync at startup the AO Arbitrator status with W and AdSec statuses

• W
  • check the definition of the zero position of the rotator

• AdSec
  • review the logging level of messaging for removing "log spamming"
  • define a watch-dogging system among the processes to assure safe behavior in case of process death

• AO system (in order of priority)
  • define a releasing policy and development configuration
  • setup the shared disk for AO (equivalent to /towerdata in Arcetri) and make its configuration not requesting user setup
  • define a stable structure of data (calibration data, measurement data, etc.)
  • define a set of procedures for testing AO software functionality (es. for testing new sw releases):
    • in Arcetri without connection to hardware
    • without optical feedback (i.e. without retroreflecting optics)
    • with retroreflector optical feedback
    • on-sky
  • test of modal offloading mechanism at the telescope (requires AO4 passing the test)
  • scripting to startup system (processes) and user environment (GUIs from any Xterm)
  • backup strategy (long term issue)