Electronics Group: Access to common calibration files repo

[jackbdoughty]

Feature Description

As someone in the electronics group, I would like to be able to make changes to the common calibration files repository.

Explanation

Following on from the meeting held on 13/12/24 with Maksim we agreed to hand over some responsibility to electronics to handle the common calibrations repository and make sure that changes that need to be made are applied to all instruments. Git is not the most accessible of tools to use so electronics should have a more streamlined way to be able to apply their changes to the repo.

Heres two pre existing suggestions:

1. One idea is for them to make the changes locally and we just do a git commit and push when asked to do so.
2. Using git desktop is an easy way to manage repos.

Additional Information

See the ticket prior to this. See the calibration files wiki page.

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Acceptance Criteria

• Investigate possible solutions to this
• Speak with Maksim if this solution is ideal
• If solution isn't something trivial then new ticket(s) are made to implement this

Planning

19/12/24 - would like for next cycle, but can push to next sprint
planning 00:12 2025/03/06

[rerpha]

suggestion: use github/gitlab instead of our own git repo and use CI to validate files in a PR.

[rerpha]

this probably needs to be on gitlab for licensing reasons - we may not have the licenses for these files to be able to make them open source to the public ie on github.

[rerpha]

I have:

• created https://gitlab.stfc.ac.uk/isisexperimentcontrols/common which is a push-only mirror, with the aim to get rid of our local one eventually.
• created README and CI scripts that run on merge requests for uploading sensor files
• emailed electronics group - awaiting feedback
• renamed references in install scripts https://gitlab.stfc.ac.uk/isisexperimentcontrols/common.git and wiki https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/ibex_developers_manual/wiki/Calibration-Files https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/ibex_developers_manual/wiki/First-time-installing-and-building-(Windows)#setting-up-a-calibrations-directory
• made upgrade step to set-url origin to new repo (set origin to new gitlab common instance EPICS-upgrade#86)
• replace references to common repo ibex_utils#228

Have spoken to MS from electronics, he is happy that the README is clear and will let us know if he has any questions or feedback. for now though, i think this ticket can be called done.