2012-01-23 Conference Call

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Notes for Weekly OSP Conference Call on 1-23-2012

In attendance:
Reba-Anna Lee, Marist College
Chris Mauer, Indiana University
Dave McPherson, Virginia Tech
Nancy O'Laughlin,University of Delaware
Debbie Runshe, Indiana University   
Janice Smith, Three Canoes

Agenda
1. Community Updates
    * Teaching and Learning (T&L) Group.
          o TWSIA Award
        + Draft Rubric
        + 2012 TWSIA Information - announced last week by Kate Ellis, IU
        + Nominations for Final Portfolio Judge(s): Darren Cambridge (willing to be nominated), Marij Veugleurs, U of Amsterdam (yet to be asked); Anyone can volunteer to judge portfolio entries during first round of judging!
    * Portfolio Visioning.
          o Portfolio Visioning for Sakai OAE.
        + Next meeting, Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 4:00-5:00pm EST, will discuss our contribution to OAE; will discuss joining with T & L Design Lenses group led by Jon Hayes to give feedback re: OAE.
          o Portfolio Reports.
          o Portfolio Minispecs.
    * OSP Help - no additional information at this time.
          o Update sakai.properties documentation.
          o Accessing 2.6 Help
          o Completing 2.8 Help
          o Planning for 2.9 Help
    * Upgrading OSP pages on the Sakai Project website. - no additional information at this time.
          o Enhanced content and links to tool description and resources needed.
          o Link to OSP Community Directory.
    * Consider deprecating and/or removing from the tool list in the site.template.portfolio realm. - no additional information at this time.
          o Wizards tool
          o Design Your Own Portfolio function hidden.
          o Portfolio Layouts
          o Make sure that there is Help available to assist people in turning these features back on.
    * Back burner items for future discussion. - no additional information at this time.
          o Recruiting OSP resources for QA or other activities. - new test scripts and signup sheet available; Marist has been testing.
          o Planning for Sakai 2012 Conference. (Find or make OSP Community banner for Tech Demo.)
          o Discussion of ways to alert Sakai Foundation leaders of the need to persuade Sakai (portfolio-using) institutions to put more funding into java developers working with OSP. - not much momentum in new OSP community members.
          o Response to Ian Dolphin's request for feedback from the OSP Community
          o Possible occasional discussion of implementation, performance, and teaching and learning issues at our various institutions

2. 2.9 QA Status Test Scripts, OSP QA 2.9 Signups with links to test scripts. - no additional information at this time.

3. QA Testing Informaton for OSP - no additional information at this time.

4. #*Resolved issues for 2.9. We need to go through this list to determine which issues need further explanation in order to clarify what needs to be tested.
    * High Priority Issues
          o 21524 & 21523 - assignment codes; Chris hopes to have solution soon.
          o 21250 forms; issue may be generalized; some issues have been resolved because of iframe issues; Chris will bring up Thursday to group
          o other issues... may elevate to blocker, if desired to move up on priority issue
              + Chris may be only OSP developer at this time, unsure re: Noah's workload; Chris is focusing on local issues

5. Sakai/OSP Maintenance Status (Bug fixes can be verified on the following QA servers Nightly Build (HSQLDB) or Nightly build (Oracle)). - no additional information at this time.
    * SAK-18766 Stickiness of Group and User, No page update after Manage Status in Matrices tool (UMICH).

6. Sakai Development Status (next major release cycle). - no additional information at this time.
    * SAK-19184 OSP Tools don't respect language/locale preferences (only when English is not the default locale) - Part 2.
    * SAK-16693 Roster Synchronization (pending adding optional flag, branch, test server review and trunk merge).
    * SAK-19469 Allow coordinators to view unpublished forms added/owned by another coordinator
    * SAK-19466 Unpublished forms not available to other coordinators in Portfolio Templates tool

7. OSP Community Prioritization of Open Issues. - no additional information at this time.
    * OSP Jira Filters.

8. OSP Reports Update and Continuing Issues.
    * UD working on tool to report cell status.

9. OSP Performance Issues. - no additional information at this time.
    * SAK-20715 Matrices slow to load.

10. On the back burner. - no additional information at this time.
    * Independent OSP release cycle: action items moving forward.