Author: Rubio-Manrique, S.
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MOPV034 Migration of Tango Controls Source Code Repositories 209
 
  • M. Liszcz, M. Celary, P.P. Goryl, K. Kedron
    S2Innovation, Kraków, Poland
  • G. Abeillé
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • B. Bertrand
    MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
  • R. Bourtembourg, A. Götz
    ESRF, Grenoble, France
  • T. Braun
    byte physics e.K., Berlin, Germany
  • A.F. Joubert
    SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa
  • A. López Sánchez, C. Pascual-Izarra, S. Rubio-Manrique
    ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
  • L. Pivetta
    Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
 
  Funding: Tango Community
At the turn of 2020/2021, the Tango community faced the challenge of a massive migration of all Tango software repositories from GitHub to GitLab. The motivation has been a change in the pricing model of the Travis CI provider and the shutdown of the JFrog Bintray service used for artifact hosting. GitLab has been chosen as a FOSS-friendly platform for storing both the code and build artifacts and for providing CI/CD services. The migration process faced several challenges, both technical, like redesign and rewrite of CI pipelines, and non-technical, like coordination of actions impacting multiple interdependent repositories. This paper explains the strategies adopted for migration, the outcomes, and the impact on the Tango Controls collaboration.
 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-MOPV034  
About • Received ※ 10 October 2021       Accepted ※ 04 November 2021       Issue date ※ 28 November 2021  
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MOPV037 ALBA Controls System Software Stack Upgrade 222
 
  • G. Cuní, F. Becheri, S. Blanch-Torné, C. Falcon-Torres, C. Pascual-Izarra, Z. Reszela, S. Rubio-Manrique
    ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
 
  ALBA, a 3rd Generation Synchroton Light Source located near Barcelona in Spain, is in operation since 2012. During the last 10 years, the updates of ALBA’s Control System were severely limited in order to prevent disruptions of production equipment, at the cost of having to deal with hardware and software obsolescence, elevating the effort of maintenance and enhancements. The construction of the second phase new beamlines accelerated the renewal of the software stack. In order to limit the number of supported platforms we also gradually upgraded the already operational subsystems. We are in the process of switching to the Debian OS, upgrading to the Tango 9 Control System framework including the Tango Archiving System to HDB++, migrating our code to Python 3, and migrating our GUIs to PyQt5 and PyQtGraph, etc. In order to ensure the project quality and to facilitate future upgrades, we try to automate testing, packaging, and configuration management with CI/CD pipelines using, among others, the following tools: pytest, Docker, GitLab-CI and Salt. In this paper, we present our strategy in this project, the current status of different upgrades and we share the lessons learnt.  
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About • Received ※ 08 October 2021       Revised ※ 22 October 2021       Accepted ※ 04 November 2021       Issue date ※ 24 November 2021
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WEAR01 The Tango Controls Collaboration Status in 2021 544
 
  • A. Götz, R. Bourtembourg, D. Lacoste, N. Leclercq
    ESRF, Grenoble, France
  • G. Abeillé
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • B. Bertrand, V. Hardion
    MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
  • G. Brandl
    MLZ, Garching, Germany
  • T. Braun
    byte physics e.K., Berlin, Germany
  • P.P. Goryl, M. Liszcz
    S2Innovation, Kraków, Poland
  • A.F. Joubert, A.J. Venter
    SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa
  • C. Pascual-Izarra, S. Rubio-Manrique
    ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
  • L. Pivetta
    Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
 
  The Tango Controls collaboration has continued to grow since ICALEPCS 2019. Multiple new releases were made of the stable release V9. The new versions include support for new compiler versions, new features and bug fixes. The collaboration has adopted a sustainable approach to kernel development to cope with changes in the community. New projects have adopted Tango Controls while others have completed commissioning of challenging new facilities. This paper will present the status of the Tango-Controls collaboration since 2019 and how it is helping new and old sites to maintain a modern control system.  
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About • Received ※ 10 October 2021       Revised ※ 15 October 2021       Accepted ※ 23 December 2021       Issue date ※ 25 February 2022
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