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Subject: | Requesting Feedback and Support in Consolidating Source Code and Documentation |
From: | "McNanney, Douglas via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> |
To: | "tech-talk at aps.anl.gov" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> |
Date: | Fri, 1 Sep 2023 13:09:47 +0000 |
Hello All,
At this weeks documentathon, one of the tasks was to consolidate all publicly available EPICS software outside of EPICS Base
here.
We understand that epics-controls.org has the
Hardware Support and
Soft Support pages which are still regularly used. This new page does not replace these pages, and they will remain up for the foreseeable future. However, we would like to start the discussion as to where to put everything, as ideally everything will move
to one place. To begin to phrase an argument for each approach:
Moving Hardware and Software Support to RTD
Advantages
Disadvantages
Moving EPICS Related Software to epics-controls.org
Advantages
Disadvantages
There are clearly pros and cons to discuss here, and either approach will require some effort. However, having a consolidated index of available EPICS software would be incredibly helpful, especially to newcomers.
The work is (mostly) done for consolidating external links - but we ultimately need to decide where they live long-term. I personally lean towards hosting these lists on RTD, as it would be easier for developers to promote their own projects via a simple pull-request.
However, I realize I am a bit biased coming from the documentathon where we spent some time building up RTD. Either way, the epics-controls.org site is not going anywhere.
Now, back to the new listing on docs.epics-controls.org, the RTD page
If you have software you would like included or removed from this list, please submit a pull-request or issue on the
epics-docs github page. Please also do so if you find any links are incorrect or outdated.
You may notice a few links are missing in these tables. This is either because source code / documentation has not been provided, found, or it is one of the projects that was previously hosted on BESSY's servers which
have been recently taken down. So, this is also a call for someone to host documentation and source code for their projects - which are as follows:
pymsi
PEZCA CA Watcher There may be more, but these were identified from the old list on epics-controls.org - which will soon link to the RTD page above. Please reply if there is any interest in hosting these projects.
Thank you for reading this far. If you have any interest in this effort, your feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Best,
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