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Handover: LSi Correlator (SANS-DLS) to New Component Steward

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Description

As a developer I would like to better understand how the LSi Correlator (for SANS-DLS experiments) is supported in IBEX, so that I am well-positioned to take on its future support and development.

### Acceptance Criteria
_What is the acceptance criteria?_
- [ ] Any known suggestions for improvement or enhancement are documented as tickets and listed below in a comment.
- [ ] @davidkeymer is briefed on the LSiCorrelator and is comfortable acting as a component steward for the device.
- [x] Scientists are aware that @davidkeymer is now looking after the device
- [ ] Could run through some of the smaller issues
- [ ] Work on [support issue](https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/7182) together

### Extra Information

Dev manual link: https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/ibex_developers_manual/wiki/LSi-Correlator
Support repository: https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/EPICS-LSICorrelator
IOC directory: https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/EPICS-ioc/tree/master/LSICORR
PCASPy: https://pcaspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

### Outstanding Work Left

#### User Requirements
- LSICORR: Ensure filename PV updates correctly: https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/5304
- LSICORR: Synchronise beginning of taking data with beginning of run: https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/6828

#### Project Requirements, Quick Wins and Tech-Dept
- LSI Correlator: Use virtual env: https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/5426
- LSi Correlator: Update Numpy Dependency to 1.21 or Later: https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/6968
- PCASpy: utf-8 error in log files: https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/5197
- LSI Correlator: Explore Decoupling from PCASpy: https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/6893

#### Active Support Issues
- LSICORR: correlation function not in outputted file: https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/7182

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