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2010-03-11 Developers Conference Call

2010-03-11 Developers Conference Call

Aug 18, 2010

Date

11 March 2010

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In Attendance

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Agenda

Minutes

1.6 release

  • 1.6 release candidate was released and announced yesterday. There were some bugs that had to be addressed which led to the delay.

  • No new issues, only waiting on any new issues that may surface.

  • Assuming no bugs, a full release could happen by 19-March.

  • James Arbaugh may test the RC in addition to AMPATH.

  • Darius recommends that we look at a better automatic way to look at generating change logs.

  • Burke discussed having a summary and then linking to the the full changelog. Ben discussed how Spring does it. We should have a list of the all the tickets/issues, as well as the summary.

  • Darius feels that doing a good summary would double or triple the workload of the release manager.

  • Need a database changelog as well.

  • Ben may work on a script to export a text file from Trac/JIRA. Perhaps an ant target to print out the subversion change log.

Jembi team

Application and UI refactoring

  • Darius discussed the rationale for the UI work. He sent out an e-mail last week asking for ideas about UI frameworks.

  • Portal/portlet application model would be a possible new paradigm, but Spring supports it. He also thinks Wicket is interesting to look at.

  • Saptarshi and his colleagues are asking why we need to do a UI change, and prioritize needs.

    • Some values for the new approach: Rapid prototyping ability, approachable learning curve for newcomers, resuse of components, appearance, maturity of frameworks, backwards compatibility, etc.

    • We could do some brainstorming and rank these.

    • Jeremy suggests moving away from having controls in the JSP, and just doing presentation in the JSP.

    • Sy pointed to the need to design for degradation in low-end systems in developing countries for the client-side. Pointed to Spring Roo as a tool for rapid development along with Spring 3 for server-side.

OASYS project update

  • Zeshan and Dieterich gave a brief update about the messaging module project.

  • Mostly completed with design, with a remaining question:

    • What is the best way to store the message content in the database?

      • Burke: We want to support an audit trail, retention should be up to the system users. If it's just for auditing, use logging and don't write to the database.

      • Darius: Keeping the content of messages is a good idea. Keeping e-mail and attachments, not so much.

    • What about MMS (sending and receiving image attachments)?

      • Burke: Suggested using complex obs

  • Created and finalized a test environment, and ready to begin development this week.

  • Dieterich will start committing very soon.

  • Zeshan will be out next week; Dieterich will give an update again next week.

GSoC Project Review

Suitable "Unassigned" Projects

  • Concept Proposal Module

  • Import/Export Module

    • Darius & Mike Seaton: Break down to smaller projects

  • Move Address and Name Layout Definitions to Global Properties

    • Not high priority

  • Approximate Date Support

    • Scope: Build a prototype

  • Billing Module

  • Radiology Module

  • Genome Data Storage and Drug Resistance Prediction

    • Carl will revise this

  • Encounter Type Hierarchy

    • Partly done already

  • Localization Tools

    • Scope: Partial - localize string

  • Change Module Sqldiff to Use a Liquibase Changeset file

    • Advanced skills necessary

  • Refine OpenMRS Module Administration

Suitable "Active" Projects

  • Adding "Note" Functionality to DB / API

  • Longitudinal Data Review (Discrete Data Flowsheet) Module

  • Integration of the OpenEMPI Master Patient Index with OpenMRS

  • Global Caching Support for OpenMRS Logic Service

    • Win wants to work on this

  • Automated "In-line" OpenMRS Web Application Updates

Not Suitable for GSoC

  • Module Data Removal

    • Too messy, but do-able with liquibase

  • New OpenMRS Website Template

  • Boolean Concepts

  • Integrate the Ivy Build System

  • Mental Health Module

    • Will be re-configured

  • OpenMRS J2ME Application

Completed or Cancelled

  • XForms Designer

  • Web-based Logging Controls

  • WYSIWYG Form Designer for Html Form Entry Module - almost done

  • Serialization Service

  • Global Property Types - 80%

  • Role-based home page

  • Audit Module (Data Integrity Module)

  • Video Upload and Review From Mobile Phones

  • Support for Active Lists

  • Integration of the OpenEMPI Master Patient Index with OpenMRS

  • Enhancing Patient De-duplication Workflow

  • Digital Image Importing Functionality

  • Structured Numeric Support - 80%

  • XForms in OpenMRS

  • OpenMRS Lab System Integration

  • Groovy Forms Module

  • Facility Data Module

  • Integrating OpenMRS with FrontlineSMS (mobile phone software)

  • Integration of OpenMRS and DHIS v2

  • Integration of OpenMRS and DHIS v1.4

  • Integration of OpenMRS and the Electronic TB Register (ETR.Net)

  • OpenMRS Transport Layer

  • Developer Documentation

  • Integrate Quartz Scheduler into OpenMRS

Unknown Status

  • Data Synchronization: Create New Sync Node

  • Integration of OpenMRS with EpiHandy

  • LDAP Module - 80%

    • Needs more design work

  • OpenMRS Patient Authentication via Hybrid Online/Offline Mobile Phones

Misc.

  • IRC worked well today. People on the phone felt like they were able to speak up.

  • Next week will have low attendance due to another OpenMRS meeting.

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