2013-05-23 Developers Forum
Owned by Jamie Thomas
Date
05/23/2013
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Agenda
- Quickly review previous meeting minutes (5 min)
- Getting to Module Repository 2.0
- After-action review & next week's agenda (5 min)
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Minutes
Developers Forum 2013-05-23
Recording -
Agenda
- Getting to Module Repo 2.0
Attendees
- Wyclif Luyima
- Roger Friedman
- Michael Downey
- Burke Mamlin
- Jeremy Keiper
- Nyoman Ribeka
- Zhaslan Doschanov
- Daniel Kayiwa
- Ryan Yates
- Sri Maurya Kummamuru
- Saptarshi Purkayastha
- Paul Biondich
- Lauren Stanisic
- Filip Spiridonov
- Leonjeru
Minutes
- Last week:
- TODO compile "community-supported" (define?) modules and list of resopnsible parties -- Burke & Darius
- Clover is available within Bamboo:https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO/Using+Bamboo+with+Clover
- Module repository future
- History
- Still using bwolfe's original modrepo that was a first attempt at offering modules for downloads, basic statistics, RSS feed, integration with OpenMRS to download through web UI
- Concerns
- Missing things ...
- No compatibility matrix between modules and OpenMRS versions
- Can't determine popularity, support, recency of modules easily (or at all)
- Can't see dependencies/requirements of modules easily from current version (unless they're written out in the description)
- Any screenshots are currently hidden behind a link, no video demos, etc.
- Search is only by name
- No tagging
- Lacks filtering
- Requirements
- Name
- Description
- Author/owner
- * Support level
- * Links to source, documentation
- * Version Compatibility
- Module ID
- * OpenMRS ID compatibility is a plus
- Being able to see our modules (anyone should be able to submit modules)
- Seeing download statistics
- Search by name
- RSS feed (of what content?)
- Works with OpenMRS (install from application) ***important
- * Tagging
- * Rating & Reviews (version-based)
- * Version compatibility with OpenMRS
- * Screenshots
- * Logo
- * Support information (info on how to get support for a given module)
- * Deploy to repo as part of release process (e.g. maven)
- Get to old versions
- Module "collections" or "sets" recommended by people? (i.e. download modules from this specific list to achieve X or do Y)
- Alternatives
- Zamboni (python) - https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni
- Documentation: http://zamboni.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
- Saptarshi is currently customizing Zamboni for use at DHIS2.
- Elliott Williams is also available and willing to assist with Python work
- Need a post-mortem on why the 2012 attempt failed
- Work done in 2012 by Allen Machary: https://github.com/allenmachary/zamboni
- Approach:
- Assemble a team: Ryan Yates, Saptarshi, Elliott, Jer?, Steve Githens?
- Evaluate Machary's fork (2012) vs. the new developments (via Saptarshi)
- Re-fork as necessary, customize, sandbox deployment, test
- Build OpenMRS hooks and any other missing requirements
- Upgrade/improve the existing OpenMRS module repository application
- Pro's: Path of least resistance
- Downside: Resource usage, not a scripted/agile environment, UI looks/feels 20th-century
- Create new "Proprietary" (OpenMRS-made) modrepo
- Grails?
- Do nothing
- Comments from Darius (offline):
- the current state of the module repository hurts us in a lot of ways
- It would surely be nice to use some other existing software product for this, but I have no confidence in our ability to push this through
- Surely there are some features (e.g. version compatibility charts, commenting and/or rating) that would be helpful and would be easy to just go ahead and implement.
- So my strong vote would be to determine one or two valuable features, and just implement them in the current module repository codebase, and do this soon.
- What doesn't work
- No easy way to tell which modules are compatible with which versions of OpenMRS
- Not easy to tell which modules are popular/robust vs. unsupported
- What does work
- (the notes are above not here)
- TODO:
- Team: Saptarshi, Ryan, Elliot, Steve Githens?, Jer?, Downey, all other comers
- Fork
AMOZamboni into OpenMRS organization
- Turn on new repo at https://modules2.openmrs.org (please don't really use this URL)
- Join the mailing list here:https://groups.google.com/a/openmrs.org/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/modrepo or at http://id.openmrs.org/
TODOs
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