2010-09-28 Jasig Planning

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Last updated: Sept 30, 2010Version comment

Attendees:  Omer Almatary, Dave Steiner, Jeremy Rosenberg, Jonathan Markow

This group met to discuss several long- and short-term goals for OpenRegistry to ensure project success while optimizing the collaboration between the two principal institutions currently working on the project.  Following are the goals discussed as well as the outcomes of the conversation:

Goals:

  • Provide the highest quality  OpenRegistry project possible for the benefit of higher education
  • Ensure that robust technical choices are made in the context of a meritocracy-based, open source development process
  • Build a world-wide OpenRegistry development community with diverse representation and open communication
  • Ensure that developers are able to participate on the project to the fullest extent that they are willing and capable
  • Do nothing to compromise Rutgers’ ability to proceed unimpeded on their production-driven local implementation
  • Permit multi-school development to continue during this time, with full participation and/or input from Rutgers, to their fullest extent, while working towards their production deadlines.

Outcomes and Action Items:

  • We will come to agreement on a full list of functions/components for OpenRegistry and post them on the wiki. Initially, each institution will contribute their expectations (Jeremy and Omer)
  • We need to settle on the best approach for the UI and a skinning framework.  SFU will take a first cut at making a proposal. (Jeremy)
  • Project decisions need to be made on the -dev list, by committers, following discussion on the list.  Jonathan will aggregate Jasig and Apache conventions for handling this and will post to the list (Jonathan)
  • We need to decide how best to configure trunk and branches considering that both teams need to be active in trunk.  This will be an on-going discussion on the list (All)
  • Non-code-based actions that impact the project (e.g., version numbering, demo videos, marketing, etc.) need to be discussed among the teams before they are put into effect. (All)