2007-07-06 Sync Conference Call

Two immediate PIH scenarios that must be addressed asap:

• Lesotho
  • no patient overlap
  • form import only @ parent

• Rwanda

• What if we had a 'dumb' sync. It would have the following steps:

1. Please 'sync' - initialize sync
2. Figure out the last sync timestamp
3. Find all new/change records since last sync
4. Pkg the changeset
5. Child: Send to parent
6. parent: receive data from child

• How do people feel about moving forward: consider these options:
  • a) no history at all
  • b) sync
  • c) do it all right from the start: history from get go, cleaning up the data model

Here is how people feel about it:

• Christian: do c) to begin with; it will be in the end to do it faster
• Darius: start now, and add history later – it will improve the code, should be possible but didn't prove it

  Julie: can't see how we can do it without: we*will run into the conflicts and there will be no way of resolving them

• Justin: in for c)
• Anders: prefers c)
• Maros: can be done in step-wise fashion do b) and work towards c) concurrently

• How do we move forward?
  • Darius: it is up to us (Darius and Maros) to 'prove' to rest that it will work
  • Maros TODO: write down the details of the sync steps and present to groups Monday @ 3PM EST