2016-08-25 Developers Forum

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Last updated: Sept 01, 2016 by Burke Mamlin

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Attendees

Burke Mamlin

Pascal Brandt

Ada Yeung

Jaswanth

Wyclif Luymia

Daniel Kayiwa

Jamie Thomas

Srimaurya Kummamuru

Chris Power

Willa Mhawila

taremwa tadeo

See wiki page: https://openmrs.atlassian.net/wiki/display/docs/Community+Modules (Community-Supported Modules section)

Previous review: https://openmrs.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RES/2015-07-09+Developers+Forum

Agenda

Community Supported Module Review (**NOTE: ALL TODOS MUST BE ASSIGNED A RESPONSIBLE PERSON OR GROUP)

Reference Application 2.4 included modules: https://openmrs.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RES/Release+Notes+2.4

Address Hierarchy Module

Owner: Hector Manuel (manuel1972)

Maintainers: community

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts:

We should add this to list of official RefApp modules (i.e., distributed and supported modules)

Plan:

~~Add (note: this is not on the release notes list)~~ Done

~~pascal: Add to wiki page (clean up the wiki)~~ Done

~~pascal: log a bug (if required) to modulus, or try to identify some duplicates~~

Ticket here: https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/MOD-94

burke: Yes. Let's include this in official list of distributed modules!

Jamie: suggest serching for manuel1972 in https://modules.openmrs.org/#/search and you will find some duplicates

Admin UI: https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/220/admin-ui-module

Owner: burke

Maintainers: darius, raff, dkayiwa, wyclif, burke

Health/Status: active

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Plan: add/keep in next distribution

OLD TODOs

~~Is this done? Darius Jazayeri will create a ticket to add module ID to indexing of modules in module repo (need to verify this with Darius~~)

Ticket here: https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/MOD-91

~~Is this done? Wyclif Luyima describe in README.md add a CONTRIBUTING.md to adminui repo modeled after openmrs-core's~~

~~GitHub conventions on README.md & CONTRIBUTING.md files:~~ ~~https://guides.github.com/activities/contributing-to-open-source/~~ & ~~https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines~~

(responsible person or group?) Create a JIRA issue to move this functionality into openmrs-core

TODOs

~~pascal: check for ticket create if doesn't exist~~ ~~to ensure that searching by module ID finds module in module repository (e.g., "adminui" not showing Admin UI in results)~~ https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/MOD-91

~~Allergies API:~~ ~~https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/175/allergies-api~~

~~Owner: dkayiwa~~

~~Maintainers: wyclif, dkayiwa, jdegraft~~

~~Health/Status: active~~

~~Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)~~

~~Plan: will be phased out with Platform 2.0~~

~~TODOs~~

~~should be retired~~

Allergies UI: https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/174/allergies-ui

Owner: dkayiwa

Maintainers: wyclif, dkayiwa

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

~~Tied to Allergies API module (which would be moved into openmrs-core) - No longer the case with Platform 2.0+~~

Continue to support this module it is still part of the reference application

Plan: keep in next distribution

TODOs

~~pascal: add to list of community supported~~ Done

wyclif: to post on Talk to discuss

App Framework Module: https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/5/appframework

Owner: darius

Maintainers: rseymour, darius, rowanseymour, mogoodrich, wyclif

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

We need to continue supporting this

Plan: keep in next distribution

TODOs

App UI Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/8/appui

Owner: darius

Maintainers: darius, mogoodrich, wyclif

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Plan: keep in next distribution

TODOs

Appointment Scheduling https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/7/appointmentscheduling

Owner: tgreensweig

Maintainers: wyclif, tgreensweig, yony258, mogoodrich

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

PIH has been working this more recently than Tobin has

Plan: keep in next distribution

OLD TODOs

[Burke] Find out who is actively using this

TODOs

Appointment Scheduling UI Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/200/appointment-scheduling-ui-module

Owner: mogoodrich

Maintainers: wyclif, mogoodrich

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Designed to work within Reference Application "2.0" UI (UI framework)

Plan: keep in next distribution

TODOs

Atlas Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/10/atlas

Owner: burke

Maintainers: darius, alexis.duque, burke, wyclif, mvorobey

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

unclear whether active changes are being made to module

@daniel merged recent changes to the source code

Need to do some work to bring it to admin's attention during installation or first run

Plan: keep in next distribution, Jan leading enhancment GSoC16

TODOs

Calculation https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/15/calculation

Owner: wyclif

Maintainers: wyclif, djazayeri, mseaton

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Those on the call aren't aware of current bugs within module, things are relatively stable

KenyaEMR has used this more than others

AMPATH also uses calculation for their clinical summaries

Plan: keep in next distribution

OLD TODOs

Burke Mamlin to reach out to KenyaEMR folks about feedback on Calculation module

TODOs

Burke Mamlin to reach out to implementations about level of usage on Calculation module (again)

Chart Search Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/164/chart-search-module

Owner: k.joseph

Maintainers: k.joseph, dkayiwa

Health/Status: active

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

lots of work being done during GSoC 2015, would suspect that this would result in one or more new releases of the module

Plan: keep in next distribution

OLD TODOs

Was this done?[Burke (with Kaweesi)] Investigate which implementations are using or considering using Chart Search. If not, what is missing/needed.

TODOs

Core Apps Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/177/core-apps-module

Owner: darius

Maintainers: darius, wyclif, mogoodrich, dkayiwa

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Continually developed (and supported) so new releases forthcoming

Plan: [ add/keep in next distribution | needs work | remove from next distribution ]

TODOs

releases as per routine schedule

Data Exchange Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/196/data-exchange-module

Owner: raff

Maintainers: raff

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

the implementation considered in this module isn't committed to long term, might be superceded by OCL subscription module

"Included but not supported"

Plan: keep unless OCL Subscription module supercedes the need for it (review for next release)

OLD TODOs

(responsible person or group) Description of task

TODO

Jamie: get an update on this form Rafal DONE - Need to keep. Rafal hopes for the module to be replaced with the OCL subscription module by the end of 2016.

EMR API Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/38/emrapi

Owner: darius

Maintainers: dkayiwa, darius, vinay, wyclif

Health/Status: active

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Continually developed (and supported) so new releases forthcoming

Plan: keep in the next distribution

TODO:

Event Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/40/event

Owner: raff

Maintainers: raff, darius, mogoodrich, Wyclif

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Currently stable, in bugfix mode

Plan: keep in the next distribution

TODOs

Form Entry App Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/173/form-entry-app-module

Owner: darius

Maintainers: raff, darius, wyclif

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

RefApp UI-specific module that presents access to forms (HTML Form Entry, X/Forms), allowing users to specify custom forms.

Supported

Plan: keep in the next distribution

TODOs

HTML Form Entry https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/58/htmlformentry

Owner: mogoodrich

Maintainers: darius, mseaton, ball, dthomas, mogoodrich

Health/Status: active

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Supported

Plan: keep in the next distribution

TODOs

HTML Form Entry Extensions for OpenMRS 1.9 Module (!) https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/59/htmlformentry19ext

Owner: darius

Maintainers: mogoodrich, darius

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Platform 1.9.x is EOL as of our next minor release. Is merging necessary? Yes.

Plan: keep in the next distribution

OLD TODOs

Mark Goodrich to help us merge these extensions into HTML Form Entry for a future release (make ticket(s) and/or assign work)

(Darius or Mark) Provide guidance on future work/need for this module. Does release of Platform 2.0 (or 1.12.x) depend on getting this work done?

TODOs

Burke: prompt Mark/Darius on Talk asking about this module

HTML Form Entry UI https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/60/htmlformentryui

Owner: mogoodrich

Maintainers: darius, mseaton, mogoodrich

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Supported

Plan: keep in the next distribution

TODOs

HTML Widgets https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/62/htmlwidgets

Owner: mseaton

Maintainers: mseaton, jmiranda, djazayeri, mogoodrich, wyclif

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Supported since reporting is

Plan: [ add/keep in next distribution | needs work | remove from next distribution ]

TODOs

ID Generation https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/65/idgen

Owner: mseaton

Maintainers: mseaton, djazayeri, darius, mogoodrich

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Supported, there is an IDGEN webservices module that needs to be merged into it (pull request is in process)

Consider making this part of the platform

Plan: keep in the next distribution

OLD TODOs

merge IDGen webservices module into IDGEN - done https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-idgen/pull/19

TODOs

Metadata Deploy https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/81/metadatadeploy

Owner: mseaton

Maintainers: mseaton, mogoodrich, rowanseymour

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Supported

Plan: keep in the next distribution

TODOs

Metadata Mapping https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/82/metadatamapping

Owner: raff

Maintainers: raff, kosmik

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Supported

Plan: keep in the next distribution

TODOs

Metadata Sharing https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/83/metadatasharing

Owner: raff

Maintainers: mogoodrich, bryq, raff, darius

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Supported, we should consider focusing on bug fixes Vs adding new features

Plan: keep in the next distribution

TODOs

Name Phonetics https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/90/namephonetics

Owner: dthomas

Maintainers: dthomas, mseaton, mogoodrich

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Supported

~~May be broken against Platform 1.11+ and needs to get rewritten~~

Plan: keep or remove in the next distribution

TODOs

(Burke) Ask on Talk if others than PIH are using. If not, then maybe should become a PIH-owned module. Wyclif says we're still using during patient registration (?if configured somehow). Also, is dthomas still the owner?

Provider Management Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/112/providermanagement

Owner: mogoodrich

Maintainers: mogoodrich, wyclif

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Provides one key feature to reference application (provider types)... this function needs to be pulled into core which would obviate the need of this module

Plan: [ add/keep in next distribution | needs work | remove from next distribution ]

OLD TODOs

We had design dicussion about this. Not sure if work was done after that design discussion.

(Jamie) Try to find design call (early 2016 or late 2015?) on topic of provider types - HERE http://notes.openmrs.org/Design-Forum-2015-11-02

(Burke) to create a project page for "Provider types (Design Page)"

Once provider types are supported, this module can be removed from ref app

TODOs

Migrated to core? Provider.

Provider Types to be moved to the platform and get rid of the module, see https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/TRUNK-4791

Reference Application Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/179/reference-application-module

Owner: darius, wyclif

Maintainers: darius

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

"The glue that ties everything together in the RA"

Released with each RA release

Continually developed (and supported) so new releases forthcoming

Plan: keep in the next distribution

TODOs

Reference Demo Data Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/178/reference-demo-data-module

Owner: darius

Maintainers: raff, dkayiwa, wyclif

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

OPTIONAL

Supported

Plan: keep in the next distribution

TODOs

Identify a potential volunteer to improve/care for this

Reference Metadata Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/176/reference-metadata-module

Owner: darius

Maintainers: darius, dkayiwa, wyclif

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Supported

Plan: keep in the next distribution

TODOs

Registration App Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/202/registration-app-module

Owner: wyclif

Maintainers: wyclif, mogoodrich

Health/Status: active

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Supported

PIH is currently adding features to this module

Plan: keep in the next distribution

TODOs

~~Wyclif Luyima to contact David DeSimone to check for future functionality / new release~~

Registration Core Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/201/registration-core-module

"Provides core utilities and services for patient registration." Works paired with Registration App Module.

Owner: wyclif

Maintainers: wyclif, mogoodrich

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Supported, stable and is driven by the needs in the Registration App module

Plan: keep in the next distribution

TODOs

Reporting https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/119/reporting

Owner: mseaton

Maintainers: darius, bwolfe, mseaton, jmiranda, wyclif, mogoodrich

Health/Status: active

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Supported, several bug fixes done

Continually developed (and supported) so new releases forthcoming

Plan: keep in next distribution

TODOs

Reporting REST https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/121/reportingrest

Owner: darius

Maintainers: darius, raff, wyclif, mseaton, dkayiwa, mogoodrich

Health/Status: some issues

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

"RESTful Web Services for the reporting module" (Can this be renamed with spaces and such? :-)

Someone needs to start actively working on this very soon, but no one is currently.

Plan: [ add/keep in next distribution | needs work | remove from next distribution ]

TODOs

~~have specific design forum for review of webservices for Reporting~~

~~(Jamie) Schedule a design forum to discuss REST for Reporting (required: mike, burke; would like: darius, daniel)~~ ~~Scheduled for May 9~~

consider merging this module into reporting, as we are for IDGEN and IDGEN Webservices

Serialization Xstream https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/132/serialization-xstream

Owner: mseaton

Maintainers: bwolfe, wyclif, mogoodrich, mseaton

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

~~Does this need a new owner instead of luzhuangwei? (Zhuangwei Lu)~~

Is this functionality provided natively in Java 7+? Do we still need this module?

(Saptarshi) Create a ticket for someone to spike on examining if Xstream is needed in Java 1.7+. If not, then enumerate the tasks needed to remove any dependency on Xstream so we can remove it from the platform.

Supported, bug fixes should be addressed

Plan: keep in next distribution

TODOs

UI Commons Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/143/uicommons

Owner: darius

Maintainers: darius, wyclif, mogoodrich

Health/Status:active

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Needs more maintainers?

Plan: keep in next distribution

TODOs

(responsible person or group) Description of task

UI Framework https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/144/uiframework

Owner: darius

Maintainers: mogoodrich, darius, wyclif

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Continually developed (and supported) so new releases forthcoming

"backbone of reference application"

Plan: keep in next distribution

TODOs

UI Library Module https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/145/uilibrary

Owner: darius

Maintainers: mogoodrich, rowanseymour, darius

Health/Status: stable

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

We will remove when we have provider management in core

Plan: keep in next distribution

TODOs

We would like to get of this, and this should be done once we get rid of provider management

These changes need to be scheduled for next release

(Burke/Jamie) Get provider management on the queue for RefApp functionality (would include provider types and ability to retire the old provider management module) - Added to technical roadmap

Web Services REST https://modules.openmrs.org/#/show/153/webservices-rest

Owner: darius

Maintainers: dkayiwa, darius, wyclif, bwolfe, raff, djazayeri

Health/Status: active

Relevant Notes/Thoughts: (road map, upcoming/recent design discussion, key tickets, etc.)

Continually developed (and supported) so new releases forthcoming

Plan: keep in next distribution

TODOs

What's Missing??

- FHIR Module

- OWA

- Concept Management OpenMRS OpenMRS Open Web App (will be included in RefApp 2.5)

- UI Test Framework

Future/Vision [Not currently supported]

- DHIS2 Reporting Module (More general ADX posting module?)

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