26th TANGO Collaboration Meeting

26 Sept 2012, 07:35 → 27 Sept 2012, 19:05 Europe/Berlin

HDBL, Herrsching

Jens Krueger

The TANGO Collaboration members meet twice a year to discuss control system relevant problems.The meeting is open for other institutions interested in this subject.

Wednesday, 26 September

Welcome

Status Reports

Convener: Bjoern Pedersen

1 ESRF status

Status and projects at ESRF since last meeting

Speaker: Mr Jean-Michel Chaize (ESRF)

2 ALBA Controls Status

Speaker: Guifre Cuni (ALBA)

3 Status Report (SOLEIL)

Speaker: Mr Nicolas Leclercq (Synchrotron SOLEIL)

4 Elettra and FERMI@ELETTRA status

status of the Trieste light sources

Speaker: Dr Marco Lonza (Sincrotrone Trieste - ELETTRA)

09:15 Coffee

5 DESY

Speaker: Dr Maria Teresa Nunez Pardo de Vera (DESY)

6 The Solaris status

Speaker: Piotr Goryl (National Synchrotron Radiation Centre (Solaris) at Jagiellonian University)

7 MAX IV Status Report

A short progress report on the MAX IV project will be given and a few ideas on how we would like it to be in the future.

Speaker: Mr Darren Spruce (MAX IV Laboratory)

8 Status-Report (FRM-II)

Speaker: Jens Krueger

10:30 Coffeebreak

TANGO Devlopment I

9 Tango kernel status

Classical Tango kernel talk

Speakers: Emmanuel Taurel (ESRF), Mr Tomasz Rogucki (ALBA)

11:30 Lunch

TANGO Development II

10 PyTango 8

PyTango has long been a useful part of the Tango project. The new version introduces some news like Tango 8 API, python 3k compatibility and a better IPython integration.

Speaker: Mr Tiago Coutinho (ALBA)

11 Pogo templates migration.

Pogo (the Tango code generator) has been developed using XText and XPand languages. XPand is now deprecated. The templates written in XPand must be re-written in XTend. This language extends java. Templates will be available for C++, java and Python.

Speaker: Mr Andy Götz (ESRF)

12 Tango common devices' interfaces and abstract classes

Speaker: Piotr Goryl (National Synchrotron Radiation Centre (Solaris) at Jagiellonian University)

13:40 Coffee

13 Teach instruments to dance Tango - The FRM II way of Tango

Speaker: Alexander Lenz

14 Migrating tango-ds to SVN

Overview of the situation of the tango-ds sourceforge projects in CVS and SVN. proposal for a new tree structure and roadmap

Speaker: Mr Jean-Michel Chaize (ESRF)

15 Implementing experiment status observer using Tango framework.

For high throughput experiments using neutrons or synchrotron radiation we defined a new software protocol. The central component is a Java Tango Server (StatusServer) that is dedicated to collect data during experiment will be presented in this talk

Speaker: Igor Khokhriakov (HZG)

Thursday, 27 September

Tools and managment

16 Sardana 1.2

Sardana is aimed at helping tango based controls systems to achieve motion control and data acquisition. The new version plans to add 1D/2D channels, continuous scans and a better spock & GUI interfaces.

Speaker: Mr Tiago Coutinho (ALBA)

17 Provisioning a Tango platform for all collaborators of MaxIV

In these age where Tango becomes more and more popular, the suppliers of equipment and other consultants are beginning to invest in the development of Tango Device. The talk is about the provisioning system that MaxIV could provide to support them.

Speaker: Mr Andreas Persson (MAX-lab)

18 Online tool assisted distributed version control

Using git in combiation with gerrit and jenkins to control source quality by code review and automated tests.

Speaker: Bjoern Pedersen

09:25 Coffee break

TANGO Executive Comittee

Sub-Meeting: HDB

12:30 Lunch

FRM II Visit

Visit to the FRM II reactor facility, requires pre-registration

Convener: Jens Krueger