Notes for Weekly OSP Conference Call on 10-17-2011
In attendance:
Chris Mauer, Indiana University
Dave McPherson, Virginia Tech
Debbie Runshe, Indiana University
Janice Smith, Three Canoes
Lynn Ward, Indiana University
Agenda
1. Community Updates
- Teaching and Learning (T&L) Group. – no additional information at this time.
- Portfolio Visioning.
- Portfolio Visioning for Sakai OAE.
- Portfolio Reports.
- Portfolio Minispecs .
**Meeting last week – working on minispecs, next meeting November 8
**Use of template - for information for managed project team; user scenario – decided to create a “test” minispec, Report to be used at next Visioning meeting; also to be shared w/URG; persona based story vs. scenario vs. user based story
OSP Help .
**There was a question about use of the word edit vs. change in Help draft; group choose edit; when editing is done, document needs formatted to make available
Update sakai.properties documentation.
Accessing 2.6 Help
Completing 2.8 Help
Planning for 2.9 Help
Upgrading OSP pages on the Sakai Project website .
Lynn and Janice are working on this information
Enhanced content and links to tool descriptions and resources needed.
Link to OSP Community Directory.
Back burner items for future discussion
Recruiting OSP resources for QA or other activities.
Planning for Sakai 2012 Conference. (Find or make OSP Community banner for Tech Demo.)
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.
Response to Ian Dolphin's request for feedback from the OSP Community
Possible occasional discussion of implementation, performance, and teaching and learning issues at our various institutions
2.9 QA Status Test Scripts, OSP QA 2.9 Signups with links to test scripts.
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.
Sakai/OSP Maintenance Status (Bug fixes can be verified on the following QA servers Nightly Build (HSQLDB) or Nightly build (Oracle)).
SAK-18766 Erratic Stickiness of Group and User, No page update after Manage Status in Matrices tool (UMICH).
Sakai Development Status (next major release cycle).
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
OSP Community Prioritization of Open Issues.
OSP Jira FIlters.
OSP Reports Update and Continuing Issues. – no news; IU Reports sub-directory is being developed and documentation is being updated to reflect current changes to IU’s tools
OSP Performance Issues.
SAK-20715 Matrices slow to load.
On the back burner.
ndependent OSP release cycle: action items moving forward.
Reports code perhaps in 2.9? Discussion needs to take place; if not, perhaps in Contrib build
2.9 the tag is eminent; Anthony has done some work; perhaps will see 2.9 up today for testing; delays caused primarily by changes in personnel
Some high priority issues at top of list may be browser related, being followed up on