Purpose
This page contains general information about the Experiment Control Systems group work for MEC.
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Priority definitions (from Jira Ticket Submission How-To):
- Trivial: A problem/feature with little or no impact on operations. E.g. small typos on screens, etc.
- Minor: A low priority feature or fix, or a long-term request made as part of operations planning.
- Major: A medium priority feature or fix, or a medium-term request made as part of operations planning.
- Critical: A high priority feature or fix that will drastically improve operations. May or may not need immediate attention.
- Blocker: An experiment-breaking problem or missing feature. Requires immediate attention.
Types
ECS at MEC uses the following values for the Type field:
- Bug - It's broken
- New Feature - Improvements
- Task - Work on existing system
We have not been making use of the Story and Epic types to date, rather using Task for everything from < 1 person-day work to long-term projects.
Labels
For the New Feature and Task types, we use the Labels field to help classify the activity:
- analysis - related to DAQ or scientific data reduction/analysis
- experiment_support - related to a specific experiment
- operations - related to general improvement, not specific to an experiment
- project - related to a long-term project, e.g. the Thomson Parabola
There can be other labels defined by ECS management, for example power-outage-20240302.
Multiple labels can be used on a ticket. For example work on pyFAI for use by Gregori and McBride can be labeled analysis and experiment_support.