Re: AreaDetector Monthly Collaboration Meetings and project owners

["Henrique F. Simoes via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi, Mark Rivers.

On Sunday, May 25, 2025 4:22 PM, Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
> Some of the entries have question marks for the maintainer and/or
> status.  I would appreciate feedback on these, i.e. whether someone
> else should be the maintainer and whether a detector driver is still
> actively being used or can be archived.

We actively use specsAnalyser driver, based on a fork [1] with both
pending PRs in the repository [2, 3] applied. In case Stuart Wilkins
isn't available to maintain it, I'd name Guilherme Lima for this role.
Guilherme first worked on this two years ago, and implemented support
for a more recent feature we rely on [3]. Those changes have yet to be
reviewed or merged.

Regarding ffmpegServer, I recall it being part of a discussion in a
previous Area Detector meeting whose topic was video compression over
CA/PVA, motivated by a PR in ADCore [4]. If I'm not mistaken, the
conclusion was that ffmpegServer was the only reliable option to have a
stream of data using video compression algorithms. Does this make it an
active project?

[1] github.com/cnpem/specsAnalyser
[2] github.com/areaDetector/specsAnalyser/pull/8
[3] github.com/areaDetector/specsAnalyser/pull/9
[4] github.com/areaDetector/ADCore/pull/499

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Henrique F. Simões
Control Software Group (SwC)
Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS)
Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM)

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