Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ralph Lange <[email protected]> · Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:02:20 +0100

I'm perfectly fine with a -pre2 release, as I've not been available last

week and didn't manage to find time this week yet. I'm on late shift

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, though, so I hope to be able to run the

complete set of tests during the weekend. I'll do a CVS update on Friday

to get the stuff here before the APS power switching.

Maybe you can consider giving the -pre2 a 1-week proposed lifetime and

get -RC1 ready next Friday?!

- Ralph

Andrew Johnson wrote:

I haven't heard any results from anybody testing R3.14.9-pre1 outside

of APS; has anyone actually tried it at all? Please tell core-talk if

you have been checking out the -pre1 release or the CVS snapshots

since; I'd particularly like to hear from anyone who has been testing

on linux-x86_64 and vxWorks6.

Also, this release contains a cas fix that should allow the PV Gateway

to pass alarm acknowledgements correctly, which was one of the main

reasons we wanted to release R3.14.9 at this time. I would appreciate

hearing from any other site that has built the PV Gateway with this

version of Base and tested running ALH through it, to confirm our

tests of this fix here at APS.

There have been significant numbers of commits done over the last few

days, and I'm aware of at least one build issue on linux-arm that

hasn't been completely resloved yet. I also have a number of gcc

warning fixes in my sandbox that I haven't committed yet (I've been

trying out the other -Wxxx options and cleaning up the real

problems). As a result I don't think we're going to be ready to

release -RC1 on Friday, so the release is most likely to be called

R3.14.9-pre2 (comments on this are welcome). I will do a cvs update

and tag on Friday morning, so please push any outstanding cvs commits

on Thursday evening (or by 14:00 UTC Friday).

Advanced notice: All power to the APS office building is being turned

off this coming Saturday (December 1st), between about 7:30am and Noon

Chicago time. The APS website, email exploders and ssh+cvs access

will be unavailable during that time. Those of you who rely on

mercury for remote ssh access may have to wait until Monday morning

for it to be turned back on; email me if you have any cvs+ssh problems

next week, they'll probably be related to the power cycling.

- Andrew