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2012-05-11 Developer Meeting

2012-05-11 Developer Meeting

May 11, 2012

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.