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2017-02-02 Developers Forum

2017-02-02 Developers Forum

Feb 09, 2017

How to Join

 

Agenda

  • Quickly review previous meeting minutes (5 min)

  • Developer Stages, 2016 Google Code-In Wrap Up, Google Summer of Code update

  • Review next meeting agenda

Minutes

Attendees

  • Burke Mamlin

  • Daniel Kayiwa 

  • Wyclif Luymia

  • Ashish Sareen

  • Tim N

  • Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne

  • Jamie Thomas

  • Darius Jazayeri

Topic

  • Developer Stages and 2016

  • Google Code-In Wrap Up

  • GSoC Planning

Notes

OpenMRS Developer Stages http://om.rs/devstages

  • Initially developed in part to increase engagement/leadership

  • In 2016, we decided to focus on dev stages to represent skill in OpenMRS development

  • Current definitions are not precise (using them as conventions, not strict rules)

  • Current process

  • Daniel leading as Community Devleopment Lead

  • Daniel scanning for potential upgrades

  • Some people have pinged Daniel asking about advancing

  • Some have been nominated by others

  • In some cases, we realize someone needs a stage to have appropriate privileges

  • People can reach /dev/null and /dev/1 through an automated process

  • Potential improvements to process

  • Create a quiz for additional stages

  • Quizzes could help explicitly show someone's interest in advancing stage (instead of relying on nomination or self-nomination to discover people ready to advance)

  • Review stages (perhaps at some interval) to refine them

  • Try to make the skillset/expectations clearer both for dev desiring a stage, but also for people looking for devs at a particular stage

  • Skills should be both technical (programming), toolset (git, devops), ability to be a good open-source developer (communication, following open-source best practices), community productivity (leadership tasks, sprinting, spiking, running h

  • TODO: Burke & Daniel to meet to 

Google Code-In

  • Completed in Janurary

  • Thanks to all the mentors!

  • Chaitya was admin and did a great job! Suranga was able to back away a litte.

  • Shreyans, Daniel, Harsha, Rafał, Wyclif, and others helped a ton!

  • Colin Grimm

  • Mira Yang

  • Will pick a mentor to attend mentor summit

  • Need a write-up (blog entry) describing success of OpenMRS GCI 2016

  • TODO: Suranga will ask Chaitya to lead this

Google Summer of Code

  • GSoC admins

  • Harsha Kumara

  • Kaweesi Joseph

  • Mentors (thus far)

  • harsha98

  • dkayiwa

  • suranga

  • k.joseph

  • emekaaliu

  • burke

  • pascal

  • raff

  • wyclif

  • maurya

  • sunveer50732

  • Need unassigned project pages

  • Title: Foobar Project

  • Abstract

  • Project Champions

  • Skills Needed

  • Objectives

  • Extra Credit

  • Resources

  • Well-defined "2 month" project

  • Should have a clear, useful deliverable that can almost surely be accomplished in ~2 months

  • Last month of GSoC should be deployment, documentation, testing, enhancements

 

Transcripts

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