[Contrib: Evaluation System] EVALSYS Merge Process & Plan

Aaron Zeckoski aaronz at vt.edu
Tue Sep 1 07:05:21 PDT 2009


> 2.    The ability to import/export institutional specific scales/items/etc
> (i.e. customizing the preload)  I believe there is a JIRA suggesting an xml
> format. I’ve started working on one and I think U-M has as well. Is it worth
> to standardize this?

Yes please. Great suggestion.
-AZ

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Richard C. Moyer II<rmoyer at umd.edu> wrote:
> I’d like to suggest a few other agenda items for this chat or future ones
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> 1.    There’s been recent mention of tagging eval-1.2.2.  What should be
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> 2.    The ability to import/export institutional specific scales/items/etc
> (i.e. customizing the preload)  I believe there is a JIRA suggesting an xml
> format. I’ve started working on one and I think U-M has as well. Is it worth
> to standardize this?
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> [mailto:evaluation-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Sean
> DeMonner
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:54 AM
> To: evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org; Jim Eng; Aaron Zeckoski; Ellen Yu
> Borkowski; Richard Ellis; John Leasia; Stephen Marquard
> Subject: Re: [Contrib: Evaluation System] EVALSYS Merge Process & Plan
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> 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:
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> On Aug 31, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Sean DeMonner wrote:
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> All,
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> 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.
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> See below for draft agenda.
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> On Aug 28, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Sean DeMonner wrote:
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> Sakai EVALSYS Users,
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> 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.
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> Please indicate at the following Doodle poll your availability to attend a
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>                 http://doodle.com/ckzgz3rhwshafhxq
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> 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.
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> Proposed Agenda:
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> 0. Context and Boston follow-up
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>             http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/3ADNAw
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> 1. Review of proposed U-M merges (see excerpt of earlier message from Jim
> Eng below; please *preview* the proposed changes before the meeting)
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>             - http://tinyurl.com/nv62l2 (screencast of U-M changes for
> context)
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> 2. Pending merges from other institutions
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> 3. Next steps:
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>             - next technical/merge coordination meeting
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>             - progress on product/project management  coordination effort?
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> On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Jim Eng wrote:
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> 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:
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> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-769
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> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-767
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> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-788
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> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-787
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> 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.
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> Sean DeMonner, IT Senior Project Manager, CTools Implementation Group
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> Digital Media Commons @ The Duderstadt Center, U-M      (734) 615-9765
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> Sean DeMonner, IT Senior Project Manager, CTools Implementation Group
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> Digital Media Commons @ The Duderstadt Center, U-M      (734) 615-9765
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