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Roadmap

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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

Core Services

  • Process Manager needs to be added with optimised design and performance
  • Synoptic Manager

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

Maintenance and refactoring

  • Allow core services to register and/or re-register to another core service as a listener
  • The storage manager shall be able to restore registrations from devices after a restart/crash
  • Refactor the commanding protocol
  • The Proxy and Protocol classes should be refactored for full dynamic commanding. Eliminate the use of command YAML files, replace dynamic_interface with dynamic_command.
  • Introduce asyncio into the commanding protocol, e.g. getstatus() and get_housekeeping() shall be handled asynchronously.
  • GlobalState Setup needs some redesign, especially GlobalState.setup which should not consult the configuration manager by default.

Removals

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

Testing

  • Add unit testing with nox running tests for Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12
  • Add proper unit tests for all packages – using pytest
  • Add a CI test suite
  • Use GitHub Actions for running tests before merging