2.2 Release Planning 6-1-06

June 1, 2006 2.2 Release planning meeting

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Discussion points

Update from Lydia on Samigo- was developed as a stand alone. Had two session factors- piggy backing. Be done by end of the week and they need to do some load testing. Have refactored. Stephan Marquard has assisted with this. Glenn hoping this is a major performance improvement. May want to look at applying to 2.1.x environment. There will need to be QA on this - Seth, Cheryl. Stanford needs to review the Samgio component in the 2.1.x branch to ensure everything that needs to be there is there.

Need a 2.1.x branch manager. David Haines has volunteered for this at least until the Fall. We'll need a community around this. The branch manager can't define what Yale, Rutgers needed. Lance very rarely got feedback from people. Perhaps use JIRA for requests but there also needs to be discussion on the dev list.

Seth - Do we have an idea of who will be following the 2.1.x branch? Let people know what that is there and what it means.

Resources Groups have been holding us up. Things in UI that need to be adjusted accrdingly. Partical implementation of copyright that needs to be hidden. If we know that the tag is going to be Monday Jim believes he may be able to have this done

Next tag There was discussion on doing two tags next week. That's a lot on the admins and more importantly on the QA WG for testing. By Monday Resources and Samigo should be usable or close. Lance will get a call from Lydia and Jim. The tag will be cut by Wed am.

Conversion scripts
Glenn: who is responsible for doing the conversion for each release?
Lance: Back in the olden days before 2.1.1 or 2.1.2 Glenn used to bully and flog people for their scripts. Glenn would compile it. In the last release this Jarrod took a logging jdbc driver. Bring up 2.1.0 with auto ddl and capture all ddl. Does this for release and than compares.
Glenn: We had trouble with last script. Last release had bad syntax. There is ddl and conversion. Not a lot of conversion. Need backfill for userid.

Glenns been collecting info from people. People haven't responded well about new permissions. Need to update templates and provide a script that will put them into the three roles. this is something that needs to be modified before people run these locally_

Given a script in release site. wiki has java code that will notice the state of the db and convert. If everyone did this we wouldn't need to worry about. hibernate users may not be totally aware of things that change. How will this work for production sites? It's not recommended. Pick on server, turn on auto ddl, run it, turn it off and let it roll. This is not for this release. Should be able to put out an oracle/mysql script - Glenn will post it to the community and it will be their responsibility to run it. Will have this by .005 tag if it's not in the .004 tag.

Lydia: comment on how Jarred generated the scripts. It created multiple indicies that caused severe problems

Conversion script is centralized and shouldn't be.

Release Schedule
Won't make a call until next week although it is likely the release will slip a week or two.