2009-01-15 Developers Conference Call

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15 January 2009

In Attendance

  • Darius Jazayeri

  • Justin Miranda

  • Ben Wolfe

  • Burke Mamlin

  • Mike Seaton

  • Brian McKown

  • Paul Biondich

  • Hamish Fraser

Agenda

  • Follow-up about use of Joda Time

    • Interested. Need some due diligence: what does it give us (benefits)? Does it play well with Hibernate? Does it play well with Spring? Are there reasonable alternatives with a larger community (e.g., Apache commons project)?

    • Mike will create a ticket. unnamed link

  • Follow-up about separating resources within the API and web layers

    • Ben will make a ticket for separate message bundles, so that API can be localized independently of the web layer.

  • Should we switch to Java 1.6 (per this thread)? Discuss pros/cons.

    • We got around this. No pressing need at this time.

    • OpenMRS should develop and focus for Java 1.5 for the foreseeable future. We will reconsider moving to 1.6 or 1.7 in the future.

  • Mike's start and stop date questions

    • We agree that relationship should get attributes for effective dates and the API adjusted accordingly.

    • For now, we will not put start/end dates on person addresses.

    • Long discussion on whether or not to put effective dates (start/stop) on person attributes. Our feeling was that person_attribute was designed to allow implementation-specific extensions of person — i.e., effectively "adding column(s)" to the person table without changing the core data model. Putting date ranges on a person attribute would alter this notion, by making person attributes more than simple columns. We therefore turned to look for alternative ways to model/store patient clinic locations as obs or somewhere else other than person_attribute.

    • Paul will write a follow-up/summary to the dev list

    • Mike will create a ticket: unnamed link

  • Mike will make a ticket for hashing secret password

  • Ben will make ticket for enabling SHA-2 - unnamed link

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