TSC Meeting - 2024-01-16

[jbostian]

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Participants:

[ ] Charles Korpics
[ ] Dieter Wellerdiek (had technical difficulties, but intended to join)
[ ] Elija Swift
[x] Frank DeGilio
[x] Giancarlo Frix
[x] Jim Porrell
[x] Joe Bostian
[x] Leonard Carcaramo
[ ] Michael Colavita
[ ] Yoel Ben-Avraham
[ ] Zach Burns

Minutes:

- Joe: planing a conversation with John Mertic about including code samples and examples.
    - OMP, and possibly Ambitus may be the best location for such code sets.
        - Moderates the vetting process required.
        - Allows an open audience of collaborators.
- Leonard: PyRacf
    - Completed a beta release last year.
    - Focus now on RAS and quality-of-use issues (primarily debug capabilities).
    - Memory management is key.  Certain operations are not yet thread safe.
    - Haven't heard from Henry in a month or so.  Frank will follow up with him about contributing.
- Joe: OMP mainframe is still a work-in-progress.
   - Last news was that we should have it in 3-6 months.
   - We should use Ambitus and Pyracf as a demonstration project.
- Joe: we should consider making Jenkins and other automation configuration part of the Ambitus project.
    - Eat our own cooking.
- Jim: Dave Crayford at Rocket (DABEYC on Github?) has some z/OS extensions in Python that he could share.
    - Filesystem functionality.
    - Great candidate for Ambitus.
    - Jim will follow up with him.