1. CS-Status Results from workshop 2008 Statistics Miscellaneous
what was planned for 2008
what was done in 2008
Statistics
Miscellaneous
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2. 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...
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3. 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 engine necessary to bind to OPC items (no), or is it sufficient to compile an executable with the option "enhanced DSC runtime support"? yes
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4. 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?
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5. Questions from CS Workshop 2008
LabVIEW versions?  Holger
Migration of DSC 7.1  ????
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
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6. Progress in the Past Year
mainly maintenance work
bug fixes
updated packages
patches
two releases of package CSMain
present version CS
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 >  Holger
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7. 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
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8. 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
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9. 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 (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