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Tango Controls RFCs

Year: 2022

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In 2019, the Tango Controls Collaboration decided to write down a formal specification of the existing Tango Controls protocol as Requests For Comments (RFC). The work resulted in a Markdown-formatted specification rendered in HTML and PDF on Readthedocs.io. The specification is already used as a reference during Tango Controls source code maintenance and for prototyping a new implementation. All collaborating institutes and several companies were involved in the work. In addition to providing the reference, the effort brought the Community more value: review and clarification of concepts and their implementation in the core libraries in C++, Java and Python. This paper summarizes the results, provides technical and organizational details about writing the RFCs for the existing protocol and presents the impact and benefits on future maintenance and development of Tango Controls.

Source: HAL

DOI: 10.18429/jacow-icalepcs2021-tubl03

Authors: Goryl, Piotr, Blanch-Torné, Sergi, Bourtembourg, Reynald, Götz, Andrew, Hardion, Vincent, Liszcz, Michal, Pivetta, Lorenzo

Institutions: S2Innovation Sp. z o. o. [ltd.] (Poland), ALBA Synchrotron (Spain), European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Lund University, MAX IV Laboratory, Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.

Language: English

Topic: Software Engineering Techniques and Practices

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4286901973

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