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Kaneda, our trusty ears and eyes in the NEH, now roams the halls freely (with supervision). Let the robot revolution commence. Login and access guidance can be found here. More robots following soon in other LCLS areas. Drive safe, have fun!

FIM Commissioning

The first FIM commissioning shift was conducted successfully this month.     Once timed in, we started getting good beam signals on all the wave8 channels.     Tests were done w/ both LCLS1 and LCLS2 timing and some lessons were learned re which registers contribute to the timing delay for LCLS1 vs LCLS2.    There were also some issues w/ firmware or timing signals freezing where we needed to reset the timing.    Will continue to look into this.    We'll also be looking to do some improvements to integrate the FIM screens into TMO home and to provide some FIM specific aliases for Wave8 PVs which are of special significance for the FIM.

Jira and Issue Reporting

ECS Platform Dev began exploring the use of Jira as our future ticketing system. We developed an embedded form for submitting issues to our Jira backlog, which can be found in various confluence locations. The goal is to make a very simple and easy process for people to request help from ECS PD. Ultimately we are looking to embed this process directly into our GUI so control system users can effortlessly report an issue, and provide all the helpful context we need to troubleshoot issues. An additional goal is visualizing the ECS PD work queue. Using Jira we can easily embed our backlog in confluence so anyone can see where their ticket is in the queue and lobby to change priority if needed. So far, our backlog is filling up with tasks from the XBD team as well as our own work. The next step will be to really apply Agile processes to organizing and prioritizing our work items.

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