Updated Retrospective‐Notes‐2025.04.03 (markdown)

Author: Chsudeepta

Retrospective‐Notes‐2025.04.03.md

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 # Current Sprint
+### On call.
+Jack H: I much prefer doing the weekend on call first as we are now, as opposed to the weekdays-then-weekend we were doing previously, feels like the worst bit is out of the way at the start. 
 
+David K: Also better for managing cover for the weekend before cycle and the short final week of cycle - which was the original idea for changing the on-call period, IIRC.
+
+### Centrally-hosted MySQL Database - Status?
+David K: What's the status of this?  The ticket was last proposed two years ago: [IOC Log Server: Push to a central MySQL instance · Issue #5820 · ISISComputingGroup/IBEX](https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/5820).  Is this dependent on the move to Archive Appliance?
+We were recently asked to extract data after a local database had been backed-up and truncated on RIKENFE, so had to import it from the network share, which took several hours, then create CSV files of the requested data using the 'IOC log query' script.  The instrument scientist could have done all of this themselves from the Log Plotter perspective using the 'Data Export' panel if a central MySQL database had existed.
+
+### On-site rota
+George R: a) for (very good reasons on the whole) we have a situation where the only people on site to day are the ones who only work on site. I accept this might occasionally happen, but I would like to keep an eye out for recurrences of this, as it may suggest that the rota is not working and needs revisiting. 
+b) Can we agree a process for how people permanently change days and advertise it
+
+Kathryn B: I thought the rota was the guaranteed days on site, and extras as necessary or swap with someone else to maintain the minimum cover - so if you need to be in an onsite meeting on a day you would normally not be on site, you just come to site and work there instead of at home.
+
+David K: the up-to-date rota is in a tab in the announce channel: [Onsite Rota](https://teams.microsoft.com/l/entity/1c256a65-83a6-4b5c-9ccf-78f8afb6f1e8/_djb2_msteams_prefix_2670613932?context=%7B%22channelId%22%3A%2219%3Aeaf1bd106e2d4df78f4ea9f7aa3d003d%40thread.skype%22%7D&tenantId=3f66361c-a87e-4158-8f61-99e82db3cac8)
+
+### EPICS Collaboration on site
+George R: It was great to see Evan working with a colleague from Accelerator Controls today. Can we do more to build links with other RAL EPICS users and share knowledge/expertise across groups?
+Freddie A: We have had meetings with accelerator controls in the past, but these dropped off at some point, we can restart. I'd offered to host the next "EPICS oxfordshire" meeting onsite for start of this year, but then as STFC were hosting a full collab meeting it was decided to postpone until later in year. 
+
+### Teams for other meetings?
+Chris M: Teams for planning seemed to go very smoothly, should we be moving other meetings?
 
 # 😠😢😄 
+- KB 😄 **Bluesky scripting** has gone really well so far, and I think the message from Diego asking for it on zoom is a great example of this ([[email protected] via email: bluesky on Zoom](https://teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19:[email protected]/1743159129191?tenantId=3f66361c-a87e-4158-8f61-99e82db3cac8&groupId=d9946ec3-a454-424f-b673-5ffcb9f9ade0&parentMessageId=1743159129191&teamName=IBEX%20Developers&channelName=email-exp-controls&createdTime=1743159129191)
+posted in IBEX Developers / email-exp-controls on 28 March 2025 10:52)
 
-- FA 😄 we made changes to lots of stuff in release and got away with it
-- LJ 😄 about stress(full) rig
-- ES 😄 about OPCUA
-- GR 😄 about 🌞 in the evenings when leaving work
-- CMS 😄 that we've run EMMA on newer windows version/hardware
-  * CMS 😄 OpenGENIE & SECI work on windows 11 (?!)
-- FA & KB & others 😄 about SECI 💀
-- IG 😠 that his 💻 got wiped
-- GR 😄 that this meeting wasn't stupidly long
+- TW 😄 We eventually had SECI free cycle!!