[Contrib: Evaluation System] EVALSYS Merge Process & Plan

Sean DeMonner demonner at umich.edu
Tue Sep 1 05:53:50 PDT 2009


Oops, it was pointed out to me that there may be a conflict with the  
Sakai 001 room on the teleconference so I'm moving this meeting to  
Sakai 002:

	Name: Sakai002 - Ad-hoc
	Telephone: +1-812-856-7060
	Internet:156.56.240.9
	Conference Code: 350#
	PIN: 72524#

Sorry for the confusion.

SMD.



On Aug 31, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Sean DeMonner wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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>
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> ==========================================================
>> 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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> 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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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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