Agenda for EPICS V4 telecon of Oct 7, 2014

[White, G. <gr...@sl...>]

Colleagues,

Please find below the agenda for our regularly scheduled [0] EPICS V4 telecon.

Agenda

0. Preliminaries

1. Saclay meetings

   Ev4 meeting
      Admin - Rooms and transport coordination. *Bob* do we have transport from 
           Le Guichet to CEA on Monday, or do we just walk it? I’m guessing walk.

      Some Discussion topics I want to put in the agenda. Others?
        + Most important things for next year are gateway and multi (other than areaDetector
          work being carried out mostly orthogonally). So, given that what can usefully be said 
          about this in a meeting?    
        + Normative types (obviously)
          Maybe precede the argument about type-id with review of what I’m proposing for
          multichannel and errors [2], so can see why I need type-id to version a system of types.
        + The EPICS V4 working group process. How software and documents advance. 
          Assumptions about who can make implementations and
          based on what specifications.

      Question: should we try to make codeathon type advance on gateway and multi in
      the meeting time, or use the meeting time for 
 
  Epics meeting
     + Talk on V4 will need examples of new features in 4.4. [1]
     + Bring Greg up to speed on talks being offered. Did last meeting solicit a real list?
     Didn’t see it in minutes.

2. 4.4.0 status
   I take it java is ready for exampleJava testing as the last thing. Is c++ ready for packaging.
   From the module tracker it seems not quite.

[0] http://epics-pvdata.sourceforge.net/home.html#usefulinfo
[1] http://epics-pvdata.sourceforge.net/internal/proposedChanges/featureListR4.4.html
[2] http://epics-pvdata.sourceforge.net/alpha/normativeTypes/normativeTypes_20140709.html#ntmultichannel