Don't get taken by surprise: planning for software obsolescence management at the ALMA Observatory

Erich Schmid; George Kosugi; Jorge Ibsen; Morgan Griffith

doi:10.1117/12.2231189

26 July 2016 Don't get taken by surprise: planning for software obsolescence management at the ALMA Observatory

Erich Schmid, George Kosugi, Jorge Ibsen, Morgan Griffith

Proceedings Volume 9913, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV; 99131A (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231189
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

ALMA is still a young and evolving observatory with a very active software development group that produces new and updated software components regularly. Yet we are coming to realize that - after well over a decade of development - not only our own software, but also technologies and tools we depend upon, as well as the hardware we interface with, are coming of age. Software obsolescence management is needed, but surprisingly is not something we can just borrow from other observatories, or any other comparable organization. Here we present the challenges, our approaches and some early experiences.

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Erich Schmid, George Kosugi, Jorge Ibsen, and Morgan Griffith "Don't get taken by surprise: planning for software obsolescence management at the ALMA Observatory", Proc. SPIE 9913, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV, 99131A (26 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231189

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