MPDL Developer Meeting 2009-03-10

MPDL  Restricted Access to MPDL

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PubMan R4

 * Critical issues?

Outcome

 * Another PubMan team meeting before end of the week to check on bug development
 * Release
 * no new features/improvements are accepted except those scheduled for 4.1.2
 * all bugs shall be resolved for 4.1.2
 * if testing process discovers new bugs, they should be immediately scheduled for 4.1.2
 * Aim: to have release at end of the week

eSciDoc Admin enhancements

 * Password update
 * Send-email after creation
 * Small enhancements on user interface

Ldap/Shib

 * waiting for new core-service release

Outcome

 * Post meeting update from FIZ
 * it is possible already now to test Shib with local user database
 * it is important to provide feedback if Ldap/Shib integration is possible/done with escidoc-core

PubMan R5

 * list of improvements - code clean-up
 * Wish list from before (November, 2008)
 * Adoption of new GUI Style - PRIO CRITICAL - Done
 * Clean-Up of unnecessary Code - PRIO CRITICAL -- Partly Done
 * Back-Button - PRIO HIGH
 * Cancel button - PRIO HIGH (can be resolved if breadcrumbs kicked of in big level) - Done
 * Session Bean problems - Partly resolved with clean-up and having resource-oriented URLs to Pubman (kicking-out JSF navigation between pages and within search-result pages and filter result pages) 0=> this would enable discarding session beans (or minimizing them) - PRIO CRITICAL - Done
 * Create / Manage reusable GUI components (between solutions?)
 * Nice URLs (for defined pages) - Done
 * Page jumps - Partly done, basic solution
 * JiBX -> XML Beans
 * more intelligent Java VOs - Started
 * Search via URLs - PRIO CRITICAL - Done
 * GUI tests -
 * Exception Handling (starting with modules) - In progress
 * filtered lists / paging / sorting / offset PRIO -CRITICAL (1) - Done
 * genre specific metadata (edit/ view item) - Done, enhancements needed
 * applications working together on the same JBoss (Redesign of Property reader, etc. ) - Discussed, not yet started
 * Google enabling - R5
 * Advanced search (Presentation) - PRIO CRITICAL - Done
 * New lists (Presentation) - PRIO CRITICAL - Done
 * kick out breadcrumbs - Rejected - New concept is not implemented
 * OU tree populated from search - PRIO CRITICAL - - In progress
 * Arch issues:
 * searching - Done
 * Value objects - In progress
 * genre metadata - Done, enhancements needed, see below
 * default values for some metadata
 * field level validation
 * Reusable components - Not started
 * Property reader - Not started

Faces

 * EA Design
 * Surrogate items
 * Searching and indexing
 * no problems with development on R3

Outcome

 * qa release in progress

Virr

 * Applicaton profile
 * Searching and indexing
 * EA Design
 * GUI development will start tomorrow (Markus M)
 * status toc: not yet started
 * Markus H is working on editing interface

Outcome

 * Application profile almost finished
 * Toc Edit interface in development, not GUI pages
 * Post meeting update: Toc edit interface can be checked at dev server, no data save possible yet
 * see http://dev-virr.mpdl.mpg.de:8080/virr/faces/TocEditingPage.jsp
 * Important: enable standard build process for dev-virr

General topics

 * FAO Report from Willy, Natasa