Code Repository "In-Development" forum on LAVA

The LAVA Forums has successfully run a LabVIEW Code Repository (CR) for over a year now with great success. Recently there was some interest for an area where members could have preliminary discussions on code that is in-development. An area where the code would be reviewed and discussed before the final Code Repository submission. We have now implemented this. We just added a new forum, see: Code Repository Code In-Development.
This forum can be used by anyone who wants to present some code and
evolve a discussion and review where the final product will be a
submission to the LAVA Code Repository.
There is currently no requirement to start a discussion in this forum in order to have code approved for the CR. Also, just because code is discussed in this forum does not necessarily mean that it will end up in the CR. The current CR requirements have not changed, See: Code repository support forum for submission guidelines.
Some other use-cases:
You
can start discussions in this forum and present completed Code
Repository code when you need to get feedback from the community (or
the CR review committee) before you submit it to the Code Repository.
You
have some cool code but don't have time to evolve it into a proper
submission. Others in the community can take it over (giving proper
credit) and evolve it into a CR submission.
You have an idea and really need some help from the community to get it implemented.
You
have finished code and need the community to do some Beta testing
before an official CR release. This can also be for existing CR code
that has a new upcoming version release.
The list can go on...
Michael Aivaliotis
VI Shots LLC

I'm glad things are working for you now.
I wanted to add in something for anyone that may find this thread via Google at a later date.
The orange STATUS LED blinks in specific patterns to provide information about your cRIO. This is the LED you can go to your manual to read about the behavior.
The USER FPGA 1 LED is something you can set in your FPGA code. The behavior of this is not something that you can look in the manual to understand. The behavior is determined by the programmer, not the hardware. While it was a heartbeat in this case, it could be something as simple as turning the LED on when the program starts and turning it off when the program stops for another program. The programmer could opt to leave it off entirely. These are all appropriate uses of the FPGA 1 LED. These could all also be programmed to represent an error. That would also be an appropriate use. Use this LED as you see fit to tell you what is taking place on your cRIO. But, do not look into the manual for guidance as to what the LED is telling you. For that information, you'll need to take a look at the code.
Jeff B.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

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