[Contrib: Evaluation System] EVALSYS Merge Process & Plan

[Sean DeMonner]

All,

it looks like the earliest time when most of the folks can meet on  
this topic is Thurs 9/3 at 11 am EDT (there was no time when everyone  
was available so I grabbed the best, earliest spot). I've reserved  
the Sakai conference bridge for this meeting.

	Name: Sakai001_Scheduled
	Telephone: +1-812-856-7060
	Internet:156.56.240.9
	Conference Code: 348#
	PIN: 72524#

See below for draft agenda.

SMD.





On Aug 28, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Sean DeMonner wrote:

> Sakai EVALSYS Users,
>
> This week there has been some off-list discussion about efforts to  
> merge changes from a local branch (specifically the U-M branch)  
> back to the 2.6 EVALSYS trunk and how that work should be  
> orchestrated with the rest of the community. Branch management was  
> a topic at the Boston conference BoF where we agreed that regular  
> meetings (monthly?) would be desirable in order to coordinate the  
> work occurring at the disparate institutions. This email is an  
> attempt to schedule the first of those technical meetings.
>
> Please indicate at the following Doodle poll your availability to  
> attend a conference call:
>
> 	http://doodle.com/ckzgz3rhwshafhxq
>
> I will send out a meeting confirmation next week once we have a  
> critical mass that can settle on a time. There is some urgency  
> around this effort for all of us (not just U-M), so please plan to  
> attend if possible.
>
>
> ---------------------
> Proposed Agenda:
>
> 0. Context and Boston follow-up
> 	http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/3ADNAw
>
> 1. Review of proposed U-M merges (see excerpt of earlier message  
> from Jim Eng below; please *preview* the proposed changes before  
> the meeting)
> 	- http://tinyurl.com/nv62l2 (screencast of U-M changes for context)
>
> 2. Pending merges from other institutions
>
> 3. Next steps:
> 	- next technical/merge coordination meeting
> 	- progress on product/project management  coordination effort?
> ---------------------
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> SMD.
>
>
>
>
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Jim Eng wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sorry.  I wasn't at the meeting in Boston because I had to  
>>>>> leave the conference early.  I understood from Aaron that we  
>>>>> were to merge to trunk.  I have been creating branches to work  
>>>>> on particular features. Once all the details have been worked  
>>>>> out, I have been merging from there to trunk.  I have done this  
>>>>> with four features so far.  In each case, there is a setting to  
>>>>> enable/disable the feature or capability and the default  
>>>>> setting makes no change in any behaviors or user-facing  
>>>>> components.  Here are the tickets that have been merged to eval  
>>>>> trunk:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-769
>>>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-767
>>>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-788
>>>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-787
>>>>>
>>>>> I will be glad to participate in the meeting.  If need-be I  
>>>>> could back out these changes in trunk, but I would prefer not  
>>>>> to.  It's very easy for a branch to become stale so it's very  
>>>>> hard to merge back to trunk.  We believe these are features or  
>>>>> capabilities other people will want, so I would prefer to  
>>>>> continue getting them into trunk when we are ready to merge  
>>>>> them, unless that creates a problem for anybody.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim
>
>
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SMD.


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Sean DeMonner, IT Senior Project Manager, CTools Implementation Group
Digital Media Commons @ The Duderstadt Center, U-M      (734) 615-9765
Pub Key 24DD6B09




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