State of BLISS development

(today is 75^th anniversary of D-Day)

Activity since last meeting

26% documentation

47% bugs fixing

11% devices & controllers

9% new features

Data from commits history

Results report (6/6/2019)

User dialogs feature (issue #698)

• To ask questions to user while running a script
• To make it easier to edit parameters

Ready for BLISS shell (terminal), extensible for graphical user interfaces (web or Qt)

Results report (6/6/2019)

Parameters (issue #736)

• To manage  parameters for any non-trivial scan, e.g. tomography
• To store different sets of parameters, e.g to keep ROIs for a MCA or to save a crystal UB matrix

Results report (6/6/2019)

Automatic Conda packaging (#634)

• A new tag for the project triggers a new package to be built automatically

Results report (6/6/2019)

Scan saving (#562, #757, #780, meeting: #758)

• HDF5 file with support of scans with multiple top-masters
• HDF5 file with meta scan info: positioners, calibration, etc.
• Improvement to the client API for data retrieval from redis

Short term planning (from task list)

• Data saving (L. Pithan, S. Petitdemange, M. Guijarro)
  • example script for DAU to start saving HDF5 from Redis in an external process
  • HDF5 links to HDF5 datasets from Lima (2D detectors)
• Regulation framework (P. Guillou)
  • improve the existing code
  • temperature, pressure controllers + hw & sw PID control loops

End of June

Short term planning (from task list)

• Data policy / electronic logbook support (M. Guijarro)
• Missing features for Lima cameras (S. Petitdemange, L. Claustre*)
  • background, masks, flatfield etc.
• Continuation on diffractometers support (L. Pithan, E. Papillon*)
  • documentation
  • tests on ID03's 6-circle diffractometer => code finalization
• Wago Tango server using BLISS Wago controller (P. Pancino)
  • 100% compatible with the existing Tango server
  • support of new interlocks, new Wago TCP module

September

Short term planning (from task list)

• Finish MCA support (C. Guilloud)
  • documentation
  • ROI counters
  • data saving -for fast scans-
  • Falcon X and other devices

October / November

• Enhanced GUI support (S. Petitdemange, M. Guijarro)
  • monitoring framework, compatible with data acquisition
  • state passing between peers
  • use of distributed locking (leases)