2012-05-11 Developer Meeting

Owned by Nathan Leiby (Unlicensed)
Last updated: May 11, 2012Version comment

Participants: Shuro, Dan, Saptarshi, John, Piyush, Karan, Vikas, Nathan

Topics:

  • Last Week's Progress
    • Most people are actively working on back-end (Saptarshi, John, Karan, Owen)
    • Less people on front-end (Piyush, Nathan) 
    • Remaining Registration work: PatientImage back-end
  • Next Week's work items
    • Want to add Pharmacy and Lab into design scope of Saptarshi's REST/OpenMRS work
    • Need to scope work for GSoC, RSoC interns. Want to get early interns ( <= Mar 21st) to join back-end quickly. Others may join back or front-end.
    • For GSoC, interns should create a Wiki page to track their specific summer project -> Piyush Madan (Unlicensed), vikas singh (Unlicensed), Martin Losse (Unlicensed)
  • Design discussions needed:
    • Need discussion to coordinate lab and pharmacy plans, to make sure they align cleanly with other Raxa work (this applies to back-end and front-end work)
  • Process Improvements
    • Discussions
      • Participate more in design discussions!
      • Keep conversations in the open. Try to give frequent updates via GitHub and JIRA. 
      • Let people know that you're involved and watching ... When in doubt, add a comment or even simply "+1"!
    • Conferencing
      • Get a new freeConferencing service!! Lots of disconnects and hassle. Try Calliflower?
    • Setup
      • How can we improve "getting started" process for new contributors. It's difficult to set up our back-end... may take hours and lots of guidance. Quick setup?
  • Lessons Learned
    • Dev-environment setup is difficult. Email from Vijita and her husband regarding complex Eclipse setup. Saptarshi updated our "back-end getting started" guide to support NetBeans and a simpler setup.
    • A few hours "in office" is vital to getting up to speed on back-end. Even dev-environ setup my take 2d.