CS-Status Results from workshop 2008 Statistics Miscellaneous what was planned for 2008 what was done in 2008 Statistics Miscellaneous 26 February 2009 Dietrich Beck

Results from CS Workshop 2008, I SourceForge packages Maintainer has to provide sources and documentation: yes Dietrich offers support for publishing a package to SourceForge: yes at least a list of available classes (under development?) should be published: done A table in the project web page: yes class description responsible maintainer contact information a flag in the description of the class.lvlib: INFO2SF backup done, but how-to restore? eLog next EE/KS student will implement a first version of a eLog-DIM-Gateway: no student, no further request, hm... 26 February 2009 Dietrich Beck

Results from CS Workshop 2008, II packaging include a change-log file option in the Packager: done notifications proposal by HB is agreed. only little feedback Sourceforge is primary for general user information, except documentation. Anonymous users can become notified by, as an example, RSS feeds to the "News". Mailing list will be used to push important information: yes Wiki is for developer and documentation. Only registered users will get notified on Wiki: yes requirements versioned configuration database: not yet  installer and Demo CS System: not yet  questions is the DSC 8.2.1 engine necessary to bind to OPC items (no), or is it sufficient to compile an executable with the option "enhanced DSC runtime support"? yes 26 February 2009 Dietrich Beck

Results from CS Workshop 2008, III Frank Herfurth: reduce number of configuration files no Dietrich Beck: Configurations of independent tools should stay independent yes Stefan Götte: Tool to distribute executables and configurations to remote nodes for local access: no Dietrich: use drag and drop via "explorer" Stefan: need solution for nodes that are switched off Data collection and storage? Reason against: missing support for custom data formats. no solution, maybe full XML support? 26 February 2009 Dietrich Beck

Questions from CS Workshop 2008 LabVIEW versions?  Holger Migration of DSC 7.1  8.2.1 ???? Maintain existing configuration tools users will report bugs by providing an exact sequence of mouse-clicks and description of environment that allows to reproduce the bug not yet maybe make those tools more comfortable not yet Improve documentation (yes) and training material (no) Workshop on Generic Data Collection, Storage and Retrieving! Stefan Götte specifies at least a half DIN A4 page of documentation!!! not yet 26 February 2009 Dietrich Beck

Progress in the Past Year mainly maintenance work bug fixes updated packages patches two releases of package CSMain present version CS 3.12.6 remote shutdown of CS systems via the DMS Server Source Code Control (SCC) available world wide LabVIEW-DIM interface runs on PharLap RT (thanks to CERN!) update of coding conventions  Dietrich change of (or new) GUI classes  Dietrich FPGA stuff  Dietrich first experience with LabVIEW > 8.2.1  Holger 26 February 2009 Dietrich Beck

Statistics from SourceForge among top 1% (almost) of SourceForge projects > 1400 (until 2008: 800) downloads of CSMain 31 (2008: 29 packages) of 2 maintainers 51 total, 1 open (2008: 42/3) bugs 41 total, 7 open (2008: 30/1) feature requests 25 total, 2 open (2008: 16/2) patches 3 total, 0 open (2008: 3/0) support requests 9 (2008: 8) developers 26 February 2009 Dietrich Beck

Usage of the CS framework today experiments requiring high flexibility experiments with a large variety of hardware types experiments with up to 10,000 (1M possible) process variables Motion CaveA RISING LEBIT SHIPTRAP ClusterTRAP HITRAP others ... LPT ISOLTRAP PHELIX GSI, Germany Mainz, Germany Greifswald, Germany CERN, Switzerland MSU, USA Lanzhou, China data taking FOPI REXTRAP commissioning Motion CaveA TrigaTRAP development WITCH 26 February 2009 Dietrich Beck

Other Issues, Outlook only little feedback from users change pattern generator of trap control systems add new vision and motion classes, triggered by HITRAP maintenance (just cumulative patches) release CS 3.13 in summer 2009, based on LV 8.2.1 (final release for 8.2.1?) upgrade to LV X interest from Trap and Laser from TRIGA department Bio/GSI demo system ... 26 February 2009 Dietrich Beck