Re: [tauruslib-devel] Farewell and Taurus Webinar

[Carlos Pascual-I. <cpa...@ce...>]

Hi,

This is an update to confirm that the taurus webinar is planned for 
Wednesday, 27th of April at 9:30am (expecting to extend till 13:00).

A work-in-progress draft of the notes for the webinar can be found in 
the taurus wiki:

https://gitlab.com/taurus-org/taurus/-/wikis/Taurus-webinar-(for-maintainers)

Carlos


On 4/4/22 16:25, Carlos Pascual-Izarra wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> As some of you may know, I’ve been the main maintainer of Taurus (as 
> well as an occasional contributor to other projects within the Tango 
> community) for a long time.
>
> Now I am taking one step in my professional career and leaving ALBA’s 
> Controls group, which unfortunately implies detaching from the Taurus 
> project and the Tango community.
>
> But before leaving, I’ve been kindly asked to organize a 
> knowledge-transfer webinar to facilitate other people taking over with 
> Taurus maintenance.
>
> The tentative date for the webinar is 27th of April.
>
> The idea is *not*to do an exhaustive review of Taurus for new users, 
> but rather to focus on specific aspects that may be of more value to 
> current Taurus users/developers who may consider getting more involved 
> in the Taurus maintenance and development.
>
> I hope to see some of you there!
>
> Carlos
>
> PS: Below is a draft for the contents of the webinar. *Suggestions for 
> removal/inclusion of topics are most welcome*
>
> Contents:
>
>   * taurus-org <https://gitlab.com/taurus-org>and related repositories
>   * Sources of docs
>       o official docs <http://taurus-scada.org/>
>       o wiki <https://gitlab.com/taurus-org/taurus/-/wikis/home>
>       o Taurus4 best practices
>         <https://gitlab.com/taurus-org/taurus/-/wikis/Best-Practices-for-Taurus-4>
>       o ESO ELT Control user UI Tutorial
>         <https://www.eso.org/~ahoffsta/docs/v1.2.0/introduction/html/docs/introduction.html#python>
>   * Workflows for contributing to Taurus (issues, MRs, TEPs,…)
>   * Taurus plugins (and entry points in Taurus). TEP13
>     <http://www.taurus-scada.org/tep?TEP13.md>
>   * Structure of Taurus project and official API of taurus
>     <https://www.taurus-scada.org/devel/api/index.html>
>   * CLI
>       o current taurus subcommands
>       o click
>       o taurus subcommands entry-point
>   * User and system settings (new!)
>   * Quick review of generic widgets catalog
>       o display, input, button, panel, table, tree container,…
>       o plotting in Taurus (taurus-pyqtgraph and guiqwt)
>       o synoptics: built-in (jdraw) vs svgsynoptic plugin
>   * The various levels of GUI development in Taurus
>       o using TaurusGui
>       o using the designer (dynamic .ui loading!)
>       o programmatic
>   * Forms:
>       o TaurusValue and factories
>   * Taurus core
>       o taurus models (auth, device, attr) and validators
>       o how to create a new scheme
>       o pint units integration (the less-understood feature in taurus!)
>       o advanced uses of the evaluation scheme
>       o Tango events/polling…
>           + issue with Tango attr timeouts
>           + issue with slow GUI start times (Tango event subscription)
>           + new tango scheme <https://gitlab.com/taurus-org/tg_scheme>
>   * Developing new Taurus widgets
>       o |TaurusBaseComponent|: event handling, thread decoupling,
>         filtering, …
>       o |TaurusBaseConfigurableClass|: config properties / config
>         delegates
>       o scheme agnosticism
>         <https://gitlab.com/taurus-org/taurus/-/wikis/Best-Practices-for-Taurus-4#scheme-agnosticism-avoid-tango-centric-code>
>       o codecs API
>       o formatters API
>       o multi-model API (new!)
>   * Supported Qt bindings and |taurus.external.qt|
>   * TaurusGUI customization mess: .py vs .xml vs .ini files
>   * Test and CI
>       o gitlab-ci
>       o supported python versions
>       o precommit, flake8 and black
>       o docker images
>       o vagrant
>   * Releases and packaging
>       o release schedule and manual tests
>       o pypi
>       o conda: conda-forge and deprecated conda channels
>       o official debian packaging repositories for taurus
>         <https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/taurus/>and
>         taurus-pyqtgraph
>         <https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/taurus-pyqtgraph>
>       o unnofficial debian repositories and backports (ALBA)
>   * Ideas for future directions
>       o relaxing release schedule and doing continuous delivery
>       o provide public debian repo with latest backports
>       o decoupling of tango-centric code as a plugin
>       o make use of the multi-model API for e.g. Taurus Labels
>       o improving the tangoarchiving scheme
>       o polishing taurus-pyqtgraph
>       o replacing guiqwt with pyqtgraph for 2D and 3D plots
>       o make use of units API in widgets (e.g. selectable units in
>         taurus forms)
>       o improving svgsynoptics
>       o improve enum support (get rid of custom enumeration class in
>         taurus)
>       o …
>   * Open Questions
>
> -- 
> +----------------------------------------------------+
>   Carlos Pascual Izarra
>   Scientific Software Coordinator
>   Computing Division
>   ALBA Synchrotron  [http://www.albasynchrotron.es]
>   Carrer de la Llum 2-26
>   E-08290 Cerdanyola del Valles (Barcelona), Spain
>   E-mail:cpa...@ce...
>   Phone: +34 93 592 4428
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  Carlos Pascual Izarra
  Scientific Software Coordinator
  Computing Division
  ALBA Synchrotron  [http://www.albasynchrotron.es]
  Carrer de la Llum 2-26
  E-08290 Cerdanyola del Valles (Barcelona), Spain
  E-mail:cpa...@ce...
  Phone: +34 93 592 4428
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