[Roadmap] Feature-Implementation-Tasks for 2026

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Modus Operandi

• users can report
  • missing features that improve usage
  • bugs
  • overly complicated workflow-details
  • etc.
• list is ordered roughly by importance (order of execution)

High Prio Tasks

• [Milestone 1] Feature completeness #115
• [Milestone 2] QoL improvements #116

Mid Prio Tasks

• documentation updates in all major areas
• ELF support for windows
• usability improvements
• increase test-coverage
• make sheep more reliable (some subtasks below have that goal) and look into speeding up downtime between runs

Detailed Subtasks

• programmer sometimes get stuck while starting

• herd - enable trusted publishing

• fix warnings thrown by PRU-GCC in GH.actions (-Wpedantic FTW)

• py - mem-map - currently all buffers share one - prototype with separate maps fails

• allow clean kMod unload (modprobe FATAL: Module remoteproc is in use on first -rf

• skip sysfs and directly build py<->pru bridge? also kernel<->pru (less error surface)

• only replace PRU-FW if needed (when reload is wanted)

• pru - check for ADC-presence during init

  • verify read
  • report ADC-error
  • still unstable? even with slow reads
  • verify ADC performance

• kMod: debug-GPIO-pin used for sync with PRU -> output does not work?

• python

  • avoid import os --- os.
  • mapping: try_inheritance, inheritance, try_completing_model
  • list, dict, tuple replaced if possible

• add sheep-mockup to allow testing herd in full

• purge usage of contextlib to suppress warnings

  • shepherd-repo
  • datalib

• purge usage of os-lib, use pathlib instead

  • shepherd-repo
  • shepherd-datalib

• use abstract PurePaths for remote paths

  • shepherd-repo
  • datalib

• offer a solution to pack experiment-data more efficiently

  • extend hdf5-file to hold data of several observers
  • alternatively pack with zstd?

• add riotee-sdk compatibility with current cape v2.4

• sheep - cleanup between Testbed-Runs (program default FWs and wipe FRAM)

• this repo should also release when commit is tagged

• switch from pipenv to uv for CI (dev-tooling)

• implement plotting GPIO traces (data-lib)

• use SI-Units for models in datalib (like Volt not mV)

• tempfs for /tmp

• explore speedups with newer py version (uv allows installing newest, wheels for armv7 come from RPi)

List of open tasks

Note: most of these topics are pretty self contained and could be the base for student projects.

• gpio actuation in PRU (precondition: FiFo-replacement)
• allow .elf-embedding with windows (datalib)
• add api-documentation (good example: pydantic)
• update unittests (extend coverage)
• allow static voltages for emulator without supplying trace-recordings (fill buffer on the fly with static values)
• gpio direction still not configurable!! while actuation does not work, shp sets variable pins to input atm
• PRU has 1x UART-Unit with 12Mbps -> could unlock faster UART-Recording
• make kernel module work with kernel 5.10 and newer #11
• (web-) dataviewer for recorded traces
• allow reading back memory of target MCUs (i.e. FRAM of MSP)
• design new targets (real targets or interference sources)