Committers Call 2011-04-25
- Bill Branan
Analytics
Participants
Eddie Shin (moderator)
John Scofield (notetaker)
Joe Gilbert
Julie Meloni
Bess Sadler
Matt Zumwalt
Dan Brubaker-Horst
Agenda
Syncing code between projects.
Hudson Followup
Notes
Code Syncing
2 projects at Stanford - Hydrus/Hypatia are forks of Hydrangea. Found issues with managing merging upstream/downstream, and no well-defined processes for upkeep of hydrangea.
Plan:
- Get hydrus to a stable point.
- Make Hypatia a fork of Hydrus.
Proposal:
For shared codebase, would like to split up monolithic codebase into separate plugins/git repos.
- hydra_repository => hydra_head
- hydrangea_article
- hydrangea_dataset
- etc.
This will set us up to be ready for Rails 3 and will make ownership, maintenance much more supportable. A reference application will be maintained similar to the way Blacklight handles.
Interim Plans:
In the interim, we can point people to various implementations for reference - especially libra. Suggestion to leave hydrangea up with an end-of-life statement on it was met with unanimous approval.
Primary Goals (in order):
- Meet current grant funding obligations (Hypatia)
- Work for future usability/maintainablity of code for current users (UVa?)
- Get copy working for new participants
Potential partner responsibilities:
Stanford => gets plugins separated out/gemified, handoff to UVa
UVa => adds improvements, javascript, etc.
Tests/Rails 3 Upgrade Path:
Need to carefully review rspec tests and ensure proper mocks, etc.
OR11:
Get an on-ramp up and running by OR11 for new adopters.
Hudson Followup
New testing gem available on github: JettyWrapper
Some issues are still causing problems... One big one: rake tasks for loading a huge amount of fixtures.
Also fixtures vs factories? Fixtures for now.
Action Items:
Bess will email Tom Cramer about EOL statement on Hydrangea.
Matt will begin plugin separation.
Bess will factor out the fixtures handling into it's own plugin.
Next week:
- Moderator: Matt Zumwalt
- Notetaker: Julie Meloni