Reference Application 2.11.0 Release Management + Planning
Release Date (November 2020)
Release Manager:Â @Sharif Magembe
Release Manager Mentor:Â @Moses Mutesasira
Release Manager Co-Mentor:Â @tendo kiiza Martyn
Team Members
    -   @Daniel Kayiwa
    - @Grace Potma
    - @Herbert Yiga
    -   @Juliet Wamalwa
    - @Reagan patrick Makoba
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Release TimeLine
Status | Activity | Resources Needed | Duration(once a year) | Completion  Date | Comments |
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completed | Agreeing the vision and the strategic goal of RoadMap  Activities | Community Core apps Lead | Once a year |  | Still in process of collaborating with team leads/squads . |
completed | Call out on all OMRS Communication channels announcing the commencement of the RoadMap planning Process | TPM @Grace Potma @Jennifer Antilla  | 1 week | August 23 |  |
completed | Identification of volunteer team members for core activities of the group, such as release management, BA, QA , testing  | TPM Community Implementers Individual contributors | Continuous | September 27th 2020 |  |
completed | Receive new feature requests from community Prioritization and Validation of feature requests Confirmation of feature owners and resourcing to develop feature (or go it alone) | TPM Community Implementers Individual contributors GSOC?? | continuous (2-4 weeks window) | August 30Â 2020 | Â |
completed | Commencement of Release Process | Release Manager, Community Dev's | 8-15 Weeks | August 2020 |  |
completed | Quality Assurance & Testing | QA , Community, Community Dev's | 4-6 weeks |  |  |
completed | Application pushed for community alpha release (or criteria that meets an alpha release) | Release Manager, Community Dev's | 4-6 weeks  |  |  |
completed | Beta Release | Release Manager, Community | 4-6 weeks  |  |  |
completed | Completion of Release Process & Application Launch | Release Manager | 4 weeks  |  |  |
RoadMap FeaturesÂ
RoadMap   RoadMap planning
Ongoing talk Post for Including SPA module And Here
Objective Lead TBD Objective CO-Lead  @Burke Mamlin
Feature | Description | Status | Point of Contact | Comments |
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Removed openmrs-module-spa in ref-app 2.11.0 in preparation of MICROFRONTENDS | Checkout on Talk for more discussions  https://talk.openmrs.org/t/include-spa-module-in-refapp-2-11/29678/9 And  https://talk.openmrs.org/t/removing-single-page-application-spa-in-ref-app-2-11-0/30315   | completed see completed tickets
 | @Burke Mamlin @Daniel Kayiwa @Brandon Istenes Individual contributors Implementers | We are still in the discussion on talk https://talk.openmrs.org/t/include-spa-module-in-refapp-2-11/29678/9 This is going to leverage the functionality for spa in relation to micro front end process.  See the module repository  https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-spa  |
Bug fixes and modifications | We have a number of Tickets that include bug fixes and feature enhancements in the Reference Application: Check github_changelog_generator to catch work that was done but not ticketed in Jira |  completed See tickets Fixed | Community members Implementers ,devs | Community members called upon to work on these tickets     |
Improve Reference Application Performance | We need to optimize the performance of The reference Application by Revising the Current List of modules and removing some modules whose current usage is low | completed A number of modules were updated like FHIR module were updated to fhir2 module as per Reference Application 2.11.0 Release Issue Tracking And here https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-distro-referenceapplication/blob/master/pom.xml#L71 We also didnot bundle spa module as per https://talk.openmrs.org/t/removing-single-page-application-spa-in-ref-app-2-11-0/30315 |  | @Grace Potma @Daniel Kayiwa |
2. Removing Covid-19 Concepts For Reference Application 2.11  | This should be maintained with the newly created metadata packages There were some changes that were made about covid-19 concepts and we decided to remove them from current refApp 2.11 release according to this talk thread .https://talk.openmrs.org/t/an-overview-of-the-forthcoming-next-release-for-ref-app-2-11-0/29618/127 We therefore decided to package them in a separate module covid-19 module with this Pull Request such that any implementor can leverage them after uploading covid19 module into an instance  |   completed https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-referencemetadata/pull/54 https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-referencemetadata/pull/57 IN PROGRESS And https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-covid19/pull/1  | @Sharif Magembe | @Sharif Magembe |
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PROJECT UPDATES
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Canvassing for New Ideas & Features
Several sources are considered in determining which features get added to OpenMRS, including:
OpenMRS implementation site needs
OpenMRS priorities
Features requests within the issue tracker
Needs of ongoing projects(including spa module)
Module authors(module maintainers)
Needs of ongoing grant-funded projects
Implementers' Showcase (Previously called "Scrum of Scrums") every 3 months
Discussions from Design Forum
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Other channels:
Review of current functionality of current ref and platform apps to identify features that could be improved.
Continuous review of competitor applications both open and proprietary systems
Feedback from monthly Squad Showcase
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