2014-03-20 Developers Forum
- Jamie Thomas
- Burke Mamlin
Owned by Jamie Thomas
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Agenda
- Quickly review previous meeting minutes (5 min)
- OpenMRS Hackathons (reviewing past hackathons, plans for new ones)
- After-action review & next week's agenda (5 min)
In Attendance
- You
Minutes
In Attendance
- Kesha Shah
- Jeremy Keiper
- I Nyoman Winardi Ribeka Pratihana
- Wyclif Luyima
- Burke Mamlin
- Ryan Yates
- Elliott Williams
- Daniel Kayiwa
- kushal
- VaibhavAgarwal
- Chris Power
- Darius Jazayeri
- aniketha
- Alexis Duque
- Milinda Premadasa
- suraj
- Sashrika
- Lukas Breitwieser
- ayuk etta
Agenda
- Quickly review previous meeting minutes (5 min)
- OpenMRS Hackathons (reviewing past hackathons, plans for new ones)
- After-action review & next week's agenda (5 min)
Notes
- Quickly review previous meeting minutes (5 min)
- TODO: Burke will get PIH presentation from Mike added to the wiki page
- No further comments
- OpenMRS Hackathons (reviewing past hackathons, plans for new ones)
- Recommended by Chris Power; expanded to talk about tools, etc
How do we get development done? OpenMRS as a community ... current impression.
Values/Mission/Goals
- Try to be driven by implementation needs
- Wanna have fun
- High quality code
- Fast turnaround (never more than 3 years between releases)
- "Engage the world"
- Road Map?!?
- TODO: Burke & Darius to clean this up
Roles
- We have core developers and "people on the outside"
- "implementation developers"
- Working on modules
- Adapting core code (e.g., via implementation-specific modules)
- Looking for opportunities to leverage community modules
- Not always clear how to collaborate without losing efficiency
- Not always clear on how to use resources
- Sometimes wear a "community" hat and support community modules
- RFE, reporting, idgen, HFE, etc.
- Often with insanely tight timeliness
- "community developers"
- "community groups of developers"
- We've seen these form in Germany, Australia, etc.
- "philanthropic organizations"
- e.g. ThoughtWorks, random universities / schools
- Need a quick way to donate a chunk of high quality developer time
- Full committers, Partial Committers, Module/Repo Owners
- Full committers can work on anything
- Partial committers can change anything, but are expected to focus on their particular area/repo and not push to things they are not involved with
- Module/Repo Owners tend to be the go-to person for a particular module/repo and are typically the lead for the associated JIRA project
Tools/Approaches
- Sprints
- Not always helpful to implementations (timing, ability to participate, ...)
- Community Development Swim Lane
- Helping n00bs
- Tends to do the "non-sprint" stuff
- Design
- Design forums
- Occassional "idea" wiki pages
- Rare hackathons
- Small group spend a focused amount of time (e.g., 1-3 days) on a focused topic
- OMRS13 hackathon was great
- What are ways we can do better with them?
- TODO: Start having more hackathons
- Explore different types
- Contest approach
- Education approach
- Pile-On approach (getting a pile of pre-defined work done quickly)
- "Virtual" online
- ...
- Need projects/targets available for folks
- Try to have one per quarter
- Rare spikes
- Usually a single developer spends 1-2 days on answering a particular question, often with throw-away code
- Projects
- Mentored projects (GSoC)
- Non-mentored projects
- Testing / Deployment
- What I mean is ...
- Unit tests
- Integration tests; should be just as important to new development as unit tests
- How can a new dev jump into testing?
- Training / Mentoring
- Meetup/Hangout (like-minded people, chance to get an answer face-to-face)
- OpenMRS University
- Regional Meetups
- Formal training
- Paired Programming
- Documentation
- GSoC
- SDK
- After-action review & next week's agenda (5 min)
TODOs
Transcripts
- Backchannel IRC transcript
- Audio recording of the call: Listen online or download - available after the meeting