News: gitlab for 'project' data; pyspViewer, append mode; toPyspMonitor(); pyspMonitor; SardanaMacroTester ( required hasyutils update); ICS response times; debugging TangoDump

gitlab for 'project' data: IT is currently considering to offer gitlab as a space to store 'project' data, e.g. data belonging to a PhD thesis, a publication or so. The size of each repo should be below 1 GB.
Certain questions need to be answered: what kind of documents will be stored? Images are ok, if they are not too large and not too many and if they are not changed. Latex files are OK because they can be treated like source code. Word files are problematic because gitlab sees them as one binary file.
IT is looking at example repos on stash. Subscribers of the mailing list fs-data-storage have been encourached to setup some example projects.
pyspViewer, append mode: 'keep' has been replaced by the append mode.
With Append being checked, the internal storage of pyspViewer is no longer been deleted when reading new files. Furthermore the widget 'MiscActions' appears allowing you to Overlay counter plots from various files. The Monitor combobox selects a counter to be used for nomalization.
When enabling or disabling the Append mode, the internal storage is cleared. This is due to the naming convention. In Append mode the GQE name has to contain the file name, e.g. exp_c01 would not be unambiguous.
Notice that test files for the append mode can be created by one of the Examples.
Details can be found here.
toPyspMonitor(): toPyspMonitor() is used to send data and commands to pyspMonitor processes.
New feature: each pyspMonitor process registers to the Macroserver by updating the RegisteredPyspMonitors environment variable during startup.
If toPyspMonitor() is called without explicit destination (node and/or zmqPort), the information is sent to all connected pyspMonitors. The function toPyspMonitor() translates RegisteredPyspMonitors at most every 3 seconds.
To connect from a different host:
```
 
$ export TANGO_HOST:haspp99:10000 && python myApp.py
```
This feature works among Debian-9 or Debian-10 PCs but not between different OS versions.
More details about toPyspMonitor() can be found here
pyspMonitor, zmqPort: upon startup the pyspMonitor tries to open port 7779.
New feature: if this port is occupied, the port number is increased up to 10 times to find an empty port.
SardanaMacroTester: this application checks whether all python files in the MacroPath can be imported and it checks that there are no conflicting macro names.
New features:
- the comparison is done case in-sensitive
- SardanaMacroTester.py -a will not only print the directory and library names, but also all macro names.
The required an update of hasyutils.
ICS response times: some changes have been made, what is the current status?
TangoDump: is has been reported that TngUtility.py --dump creating the versions of /online_dir/TangoDump.lis, py is not working properly. Being debigged.