2014-04-03 Developers Forum

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  • Quickly review previous meeting minutes (5 min)
    • Release Process
    • OpenMRS 1.11
  • After-action review & next week's agenda (5 min)

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OpenMRS Developers Forum: 2013-04-03
Attendees
  • Michael Downey
  • Roger Friedman
  • Karl Wurst
  • Nyoman Ribeka
  • Wyclif Luyima
  • Burke Mamlin
  • Elliott Williams
  • Daniel Kayiwa
  • Ada Yeung
  • Darius Jazayeri
  • Rafal Korytkowski
  • Mhawila Mhawila
  • Joseph Kaweesi
Agenda & Minutes
  • TODO: Burke will get PIH presentation from Mike Seaton added to the wiki page
  • TODO: Burke & Darius to clean Road Map up
  • TODO: Send out an e-mail announcement to dev@ & implementers@ informing people about the new project. (Elliott)
  • Release Process
  • Reviewing the current release process
  • Timing of releases (i.e., setting some goals)
  • We never want to go more than a year between releases
  • Releasing an update (minor or major) to our reference application at least twice a year
  • Marchs & Septembers (e.g., merge code in Jan & July)
  • Releasing an update (minor or major) to our platform application at least once a year
  • Septembers (e.g., merge code in July)
  • When do we set "the date" for a release? Feature-driven or time-driven... or compromise?
  • We'll try time-based in the 2014-2015
  • Recipe for releasing (being a release manager)
  • Why isn't anybody taking notes here?
  • Need to consider separate release process page for reference application vs. platform?
  • Need more automated tests for OpenMRS 2.0
  • TODO: Testing discussion in dev forum
  • Need to get basic release testing automated & sustainable
  • Still just taking notes by myself. /me wishes we were better at taking notes during meetings.
  • s/etherpad/wiki/g (note that Burke has been better about copying & pasting notes into wiki after meetings)
  • TODO: We need to find way(s) to encourage implementations to help test new releases
  • What things could make it worthwhile?  Are there any incentives?
  • Release Testing Module was a good idea, but was stopped b/c of issues with getting module-specific data transferred.
  • Could modules support a testing interface (getTestData & saveTestData)?
  • Are there out-of-the-box approaches we could take to encourage testing?
  • Can we create demo sites with different combinations of modules?
  • We currently have 1 system for UAT on order and more can be obtained.
  • Plan on ordering 72 of them.
  • Dream on!
  • Ok. We can settle for 30.
  • Mike has built some pretty cool tools for exporting random/helpful subsets of data, deidentifying them, etc. There was also a SoC project about this sort of thing. => If OpenMRS can set up a hosted server with all the relevant modules, and we just need to get one implementation to send us realistic testing data.
  • TODO: really could use a realistic demo data set – i.e., great to have the tools, but where are the de-identified data?
  • Implementations probably feel more comfortable giving deidentified test data with limited access, just to the implementation itself plus 1-2 trusted OpenMRS devs/testers.
  • Contrived test data is safe for crowdsourced testing
  • Try to apply the "distribution" approach to testing releases. I.e. if an implementation tells us their modules + versions, and gives us their global properties and MDS packages of all metadata, we should be able to build a "testing distro", that can be quickly deployed by vagrant and/or other tooling.
  • OpenMRS 1.11
  • Strategy for 1.11
  • Get 'er done.
  • What does this mean as OpenMRS Platform diverges from OpenMRS 2.x?
  • OpenMRS 2.0 – our reference application
  • OpenMRS Platform 1.10 – API with web layer including REST (for now still has remnants of old ref app)
  • Going forward
  • Platform will be WAR + REST Web Services module
  • After Action Review
  • What did you expect to happen?
  • What actually happened?
  • What can we do better?

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