Roadmap

Don't worry, the feature set will grow..

Features

The cgse Command

Provide a cgse command that is extensible with new commands and command groups:

• a command to initialise your environment.
• a command to check versions of installed packages.
• a command to check your installation, settings, setups, environment ..
• a command group to handle core services
• a command to list running CGSE processes.
• device drivers shall be able to plug in their own command groups.

Settings, Setup and the environment

• A modular/decomposed settings.yaml file.
• A clear set of environment variables.
• automatic submit of new Setups to GitHub.
• a TUI for inspecting the loaded Setup.

Common functionality

• Reference Frames and coordinate transformations -> Graphs
• Metrics for all devices will be handled using InfluxDB
• Use of Grafana to visualize the metrics

Devices

• The Symétrie Hexapods: PUNA, ZONDA, JORAN
• The Keithley Data Acquisition Multimeter
• The Lakeshore temperature controller

Projects

• Ariel HDF5 format plugin
• Ariel FITS format plugin

GUIs and TUIs

• A Process Manager TUI
• tui-executor integration

Removals

• The get_common_egse_root() is of no use anymore and needs to be removed or replaced in some cases.

Testing

• Add proper unit tests for all packages – using pytest
• Add a CI test suite
• Use GitHub Actions for running tests before merging