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2015-08-06 Developers Forum

2015-08-06 Developers Forum

Aug 06, 2015

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Minutes

OpenMRS Developers Forum 2015-08-06

Recording: https://goo.gl/oYJIIi

Attendees

  • Burke Mamlin

  • Michael Downey

  • Darius Jazayeri

  • Ryan Yates

  • Wyclif Luyima

  • Tim ___

  • Karl Wurst

  • Tomasz Mueller

  • Willa

  • Sharon Varghese

  • Carolyn __

  • Rafal Korytkowski

  • Daniel Kayiwa

Agenda/Notes

  • Review last week TODOs

  • Dev stages

  • Technology radar

  • QA team accomplishments

  • QA team still is awesome

  • Open Concepts Lab Subscription Module Showcase

  • Versioning Strategy

  • Do we need (or will we need) a 1.12 or 1.13 release of the platform? If so, what's the strategy for getting it done if master contains platform 2.0?

  • If needed (only if needed), we would branch 1.12.x from 1.11.x and backport any changes needed from master to 1.12.x

  • How can we make our versioning _more_ confusing? It may get worse when the platform becomes 2.0 (and we're working on 2.4 atop 2.0?!?)

  • Suggestions

  • Stop calling anything just "OpenMRS"

  • "OpenMRS Core", or simply "Core", is the openmrs-core in github (basic API)

  • Just "Core"

  • "OpenMRS Platform", or simply "Platform", is the shared platform (currently API + web services), may evolve to include web framework components as well

  • Just "Platform"

  • Give the reference application a different/specific name – e.g., "OpenMRS Distribution 2.4" or "OpenMRS Reference Application 2.4"

  • Just "Reference Application"

  • MD: Don't use "OpenMRS" in the name because that's what confuses people (in reverse, "OpenMRS" vs. "OpenMRS Platform")

  • Consider automobile naming scheme:

  • "Ford Fusion", "Ford Focus", etc.

  • Ford is the make, "Fusion" or "Focus" is the model

  • Ford

  • Fusion

  • Focus

  • etc.

  • We need unique names name for:

  • Our community

  • Our platform software product

  • Our featured "distribution" product

  • Communication becomes: the OpenMRS "Reference Application 2.4 runs on Platform 2.0"

  • 2013 suggestion from Win Ribeka: "OpenMRS Samsara"

  • "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." -- Phil Karlton

  • Next week preview

TODOs

Transcripts

  • Audio recording of the call: Listen online or download (available after the meeting)