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SW&IT Meeting Minutes 2018-04-30

Attendees: Andrew, David, Doug, Joe, Kellee, Matthieu, Petr, Stephen, Xianyu, Yang

Previous Action Items

• NetBrain (David - schedule demo) DONE
• VM/SSD (David - followup meeting)

News from management

• Labor Record Keeping
• Staff announcement
• Performance Evaluation

Outlook

• Weekly schedules [Telescope/Schedule/Support]
• Team calendar
• IssueTrak summary

Team reports

AC

Last week

• Added "satellite closure in 20 seconds" sound alert for laser safety officer
• Updated snapsot analyzer to take a snapshot every 2 minutes while loops are closed

This week

• ITs #7234, #7239, #7240, #7241
• Automatically propagate lasers after short (> 20s) satellite closures

DE

DS

Last Week:

• Pointing (continued) - IE/CA analysis; not much forward progress

This week:

• Return to encoders and thoughts on E-time test cases to narrow causes

IS

JA

Last week

• Brief meeting with ME, IS, regarding Planner usage
  • Planner is to use single Synchronous Preset
• Meet with ME, agree that the "three use case" powerpoint is a not a software requirements specification
• Begin writing specification + status sheet
• Meet with PK - Alt/Az offsets?

This week

• OT release scripts?
• Finish documentation
  • To include data structure definition for output files (.xml data structure TBD)
• Mask testing + integration into trunk

KS

Last week

• Found DIMM NDA email chains
• OAC HK upgrade
  • updated Mike's document for OAC updates (including client programs, telemetry and alarms)
  • added alarming for off when not requested, and when cannot connect to 8051
  • made a poweronly option for getdata

This week

• GCS patch for logging issue
• OAC HK upgrade:
  • handle errors from EPICS writes
  • support Mike's testing
  • work on new UMAC telemetry

MB

• management OC, WPC
• Install gitlab on dev machine for evaluation
• support calendars: smartsheet vs google calendars
• VCan 'kick off' meeting
• PBP upgrade technical meeting (R. Biasi, XZ)
• Netbrain demo with DE
• Loggin, packaging YZ
• study TCS anomaly document
• repos browsing

Next:

• Labor record keeping
• monthly report
• SSD
• review Luci handover document send by A. Pramsky
• VCan
• discuss ETC with Mark and Al
• 'activate' first migrations
• repo browsing, tcsweb, tools, etc.
• responsibilities and assignments draft

PK

• learned a lot about bash, .. (exec 100<> command,..) -> see tcs/pcs/test/common/pcstestfunc
• colored test suite for PCS (echo -e "\e[32mGreen\e[0m")
• started PCS, MCS, MCSPU WikiWords
• find there are still a lot of problems in TCS/PCS handling of co-pointing issues, working on improvements (IT7218, but not all the problems are in IT)

SH

• git to host config files for machines (mount tools, and support scripts).
• OVA to LN.
• collection of exec stats on obs computers.

XZ

Late week:

• Technical discussion with Roberto (MG) and Guido
• Meeting
• Wrote code for fixing IT7213, ready to test
• AdSec skip frame percentage track
• Worked with the MOXA issues, and ordered a MOXA for \x93lab\x94 test

This week:

• Test the MOXA with simulator
• Test the IT7213 fix on the telescope
• Test the IT7240 fix
• Continue working on the power backplane
• Another Technical discussion with Roberto (MG) and Guido?

YZ

• Last week explored a threaded and sorted logging implementation with the "spdlog" library.
• Following efforts will focus on creating a multiprocess backend for logging. To be studied items include Ice/Zeromq/Syslog.
• Planning on understanding the current AO logging outputs more clearly (e.g., what current log files are produced and their role and purposes). Also produce a wiki page when more information is gathered.
• With the "mergelogs" tool able to be compiled normally (with default system installed dependency), develop its RPM package spec and followup with a Jenkins integration. Also move the "mergelogs" source codes to Github (in the swg-tools repository).

Action items

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-- %USERSIG{MatthieuBec}%

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