Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
Happy New Year -
At December's EPICS Collaboration Meeting in Tokai, Japan (co-organized
by JAERI-Tokai and KEK), there was extensive discussion on how to build
some momentum into the the on-going evolution, development and support
of EPICS. Although all such development will continue to be a
collaborative effort, it was concluded that to best make use of widely
distributed resources from different institutions, some coordination,
planning, and tracking of efforts is desperately needed.
Here is "a plan" that was proposed:
- Group the activities into the following categories:
> EPICS Core (iocCore, Channel Access, SNL)
> Core Tools/Extensions (fundamental tools and popular extensions)
> Collaboration Support (training, documentation, information, etc)
> R&D for EPICS 5.0++ and beyond (EPICS 2010 follow through)
- For each category, identify a "category lead" - i.e. the
person(s) responsible for making something happen in that
category. [it was acknowledged that no one knows what
authoritative body exists to approve these "leads", so we just made
them up :) ]
- These category leads have not been given much direction (other
than this e-mail), so it will be up to them to initiate whatever
activity they deem appropriate. Some reasonable expectations
would include ...
> Identify interested people who are committed to contributing
both ideas and effort in this category
> Identify immediate needs, work being done, future plans
and ideas for that category by soliciting input from
the EPICS community (i.e. develop a plan)
> Maintain web page(s) that clearly identify current efforts,
planned efforts, and needed resources (i.e. publicize the plan)
> Match available resources to needed tasks and track progress
> Ensure that plans, implementations, etc are sufficiently
distributed/exposed for comments and all effort is done
in a "collaborative" mode (i.e. beta releases, appropriate
reviews, etc)
> Report at every EPICS Collaboration Meeting on the activities
in this category and receive honest feedback from the
community
This plan in no way inhibits one's opportunity to contribute to the
collaboration. In fact, it provides the benefit of identifying a contact
person with whom to discuss your ideas/efforts!
The discussions at Tokai identified the following "Category Leads":
> EPICS Core - Bob Dalesio
> Core Tools/Extensions - Matthias Clausen
> Collaboration Support - Ned Arnold/John Maclean
> R&D for EPICS 5.0++ and beyond - Steve Hunt
The EPICS Core category has already gained some momentum. Bob presented
a new Road Map that includes plans for EPICS Release 3.15, Channel
Access 4.0 Definition/Development, and EPICS Release 4.0. See the last
lecture listed at http://www-linac.kek.jp/epicsasia2004 (The second to
last presentation conveys similar information as this e-mail).
As web-sites for each category are made available, a link will be
provided from the EPICS Home Page.
We welcome your <helpful> comments. General comments may be submitted to
tech-talk. Specific comments and/or suggestions for a particular
category should go to the "category lead".
Ned
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