Phase 3 Highlight Report

Progress againsts deliverables

Phase 3 of Fab set out to work on consolidation of the Fab architecture and prepare the ecosystem for opening out to a wider developer pool.

The full phase 3 technical report contains further details.

The aims of the stage were:

• Update the project Working Practices so as to allow Fab development to be opened up to selected collaborators at the end of the stage

• Demonstration of a prototype extraction tool able to fetch from a MOSRS repository using an extensible architecture

• Demonstration of an extension of the Fab infrastructure to support C code

• Demonstration of an extensible Fab configuration file to enable flexible control of build options

• Demonstrate support for a second Fortran compiler (stretch)

This was not directly attempted but the work on supporting C code and the extensive changes it precipitated goes a long way to achieving this.

What's going well?

• The team continue to learn how to work together and support each other. Incidental development goals are being achieved
• Technical progress with objectives seemingly helping to drive the overall development rather than hinder it

What could be improved?

• Better situational awareness by the PM, the deficit being caused by juggling many other tasks.

Risks & Issues

Staff welfare

Next Phase

The proposal for phase 4 of Fab is documented on the project plan page. It is summarised as XXXXXX, running to the end of November 2020 and maintaining the same resourcing.