MPDL Developer Meeting 2008-11-11

MPDL  Restricted Access to MPDL

Agenda / Discussion

 * previous meeting at MPDL_Developer_Meeting_2008-11-04

PubMan release 3.8

 * bug-fix release
 * to be checked with TOM (when export bug is fixed in the presentation)
 * release to QA (quick tests from DEV team)
 * check if possible by end of the week with Tom

FACES R2

 * sorting issue
 * no feedback yet from institute
 * working on cleaning up of session beans (search URL is implemented in faces)
 * new release after properly tested

VIRR R2

 * Deployment and setting-up a VM for R1.5
 * further work on R2
 * blocked by framework release

eDoc2PubMan migration

 * export/import is re-done
 * tomorrow newest results will be known (Michael will send notification)
 * no new problems are assumed (to be still checked after jibX)

Servers, infrastructure
(virr, dev-virr, qa-virr, test-virr, qa-faces, test-faces)
 * servers are updated with memory and storage
 * check on new VMs to be set-up

Progress reports

 * no PR scheduled

Candidate release RC1

 * start using after delivered with new sort-indexes fix
 * release candidate uses different database schema and Fedora version
 * database schema migration possibility?
 * fedora migration is no needed


 * willy to test if RC works properly
 * todo:check with Lars on using one of virr VMs for testing (Willy)


 * patch for 326 to be put on dev-server to test performance and check if it affects pubman (before properly testing RC1)

PubMan R4.0 take-off

 * overview of features-issues
 * discussion on estimates, see also MPDL_AB_Meeting_2008-10-30

issues

 * not known how to use metadata for filtering and sorting
 * Bugzilla ticket already created
 * in meantime check directly with FIZ or try from "path" values


 * issues with performance and Axis
 * when more than 1000 items (up to 2700 items upper bound) are delivered there are "out-of-memory" errors
 * to check with FIZ if they have similar problems
 * problems with Pubman in 3.8
 * problems not to be expected in PubMan workspaces in R4
 * problems in SearchAndExporting service expected
 * todo: Michael will check for SearchAndExporting service what is happening
 * todo: Vlad/Bastien will check for Exporting of all Faces items (first metadata only, then also with images)

general ownership of workpackages

 * Lists (MarkusH)
 * Genres (Tobias)
 * JSPFs (Tobias mostly, for lists MarkusH will help MarkusM)
 * resourceBeans->PublicationBeans (Michael)
 * NavigationURLs->Natasa
 * BrowseTree (Michael)
 * Searching (Tom)
 * LocalTags (Tobi presentation, Michael consider during restructuring of the Beans and JibX)

Other detailed information during the week.

GUI Rework prios

 * todo (Natasa)