MPDL Developer Meeting 2008-09-30

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Agenda / Discussion
In progress

PubMan release 3.8

 * status
 * testing of migration PubMan 3.5 to PubMan 3.8
 * delivery date and feature agreement
 * important for live demonstrations on Section meetings KW 43 (23-24.10.2008) to provide feedback and for external communication
 * must be: 05-06.11.2008 (PubMan days)

Outcome

 * Development team agreed on feature-release 3.8 to dev-qa
 * Features:
 * Copy/Paste authors
 * arxiv fetch (md+ft)
 * bibtex export+unapi implementation
 * autosuggest journals
 * autosuggest languages
 * new citation style (?) - (was not clear that the new citation style definition is ready - organizational issue)
 * links to REST friendly interfaces for both searchAndOutput and validation Service
 * eventually: export enabled from depositor workspace
 * organization search and export (already provided from core service, only additional help text needed)--Natasa 11:45, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * NBU forgot: check with Michael on REST friendly interfaces to CV service for language, journal names
 * NBU forgot: check with Rike on link to interface descriptions of UnApi from home page
 * Migration from eDoc is separate task and will be extra run when all issues with MPI PL are finalized (Michael, Julia)

Timelines&ToDos
End date for feature and PubMan3.5 migrated release to PubMan3.8 on pubman.mpdl.mpg.de (Wilhelm, Nicole - sending email to pilots for unavailability of pubman)
 * 02.10-03.10 - (2 days) setting up new version of core services to qa-coreservice, setting-up of Admin solution on qa core service (Lars, Robert)
 * 06.10-17.10.2008 - (10 days)PubMan 3.5 data to PubMan 3.8 data migration ready and tested on qa-coreservice (Wilhelm)
 * 06.10-07.10.2008 - (2 days) setting up qa-pubman.mpdl.mpg.de (Lars, Tom)
 * 02.10-10.10.2008 - (7 days) help text and labels defined (Nicole)
 * 08.10-10.10.2008 - (3 days) Feature-release of PubMan 3.8 to qa-pubman (Tobias, Michael, evtl. Tom)
 * 13-17.10.2008 - (5 days) Testing on qa-pubman(Despina, Friederike, DevTeam members tbd) + Bug fixes
 * 20-22.10.2008 - (3 days) End date for bug-fixes and deployment of running release on qa-pubman (Michael, Markus, Vlad, Tobias, Tom-deployment)
 * 29.10-30.10.2008 - (1-2 days) migration of PubMan 3.5 to PubMan 3.8, release of PubMan 3.8 on pubman.mpdl.mpg.de
 * 30.10-04.11.2008 - (4 days) Final test + evtl. additional dev changes on pubman.mpdl.mpg.de (Nicole, Tobias, Michael)

FACES R2

 * status
 * delivery date agreement

Outcome

 * Dev team is confident FACES R2 will be delivered by 10.10.2008 on qa servers
 * Michael, Tobias will support Bastien in R2 finalization
 * features:
 * all Faces R2 features will be available
 * issue with content-download has a workaround, the complete thumbnails are ready, still is slowing down the browsing

Timelines&ToDos

 * 02.10 - 08.10.2008 - (5 days) finalization of Faces R2 development (Bastien, Michael, evtl. Tobias, Markus-GUI)
 * 02.10-08.10.2008 - (5 days) help text and labels defined (Kristina)
 * 06.10-07.10.2008 - (2 days) setting up qa-faces.mpdl.mpg.de (Lars -> see also qa-pubman.mpdl.mpg.de)
 * 09.10.2008 - (1 day) setting-up of contexts and ingestion of pre-selected set of Faces data from Kristina on qa-coreservice (Bastien)
 * 10.10.2008 - (1 day) Feature-release of FacesR2 to dev-faces (Bastien, Michael, Vlad-export)
 * 13-17.10.2008 - (5 days) Testing of faces R2(Kristina, DevTeam members tbd) + Bug fixes
 * 20-22.10.2008 - (3 days) bug-fixes and deployment of running release on faces.mpdl.mpg.de (Bastien, Michael, Lars)
 * INPUT: this is clashing with coreservice and PUbMan35-38 migration schedule, therefore it is only possible to run it on qa-coreservice.mpdl.mpg.de
 * 23.10-24.10.2008 - (4 days) Final test + evtl. additional dev changes on faces.mpdl.mpg.de (Kristina not available, Friederike, DevTeam members tbd)
 * 03-04.11.2008- earliest possible date for switching of faces.mpdl.mpg.de to run with coreservice.mpdl.mpg.de (also ingesting full faces collection on coreservice.mpdl.mpg.de) (but not before we migrate pubman35 to pubman38 data)

VIRR R2

 * status
 * delivery date agreement

Outcome

 * Toc edit interface in progress
 * will be continued after Markus is back and feedback on TOC interface provided from institute. Afterwards more detailed planning will be done.
 * Show-up on 23-24.10:
 * VIRR R1 extended with link to invoke the DFG viewer
 * GUI (MarkusM, Willy): please position better the carusell

eDoc2PubMan migration

 * status
 * delivery date agreement

Outcome

 * most of things are solved
 * still some mapping issues e.g. affiliations to be resolved with the institute
 * will be shifted a bit, until PubMan and Faces are delivered as Michael will work on this
 * in meantime Julia can still run the tests after she comes back from vacation (übergabe from Michael evtl.)

Servers, infrastructure

 * Server availability/order
 * infrastructure documented at ESciDoc System IT infrastructure
 * ToDo: improve it to be more clear (Lars, Tom)
 * status
 * dev-faces.mpdl.mpg.de - waiting for DNS-entries to be made
 * virr.mpdl.mpg.de - should work by now
 * dev-virr.mpdl.mpg.de - where? (3 solutions are not compatible, can not run in same jboss...)
 * test-virr.mpdl.mpg.de - also where?
 * test-faces.mpdl.mpg.de - where?
 * TODO: order extra disk space, dev-virr will be on srv05
 * 3 new servers to be ordered, but -> toDos
 * toDos
 * servers in Göttingen have to be moved to a new rack
 * downtime must be minimised, esp. for edoc and pubman
 * some issues to be discussed with Eberhard Mönkeberg (Wednesday, 01.10.)
 * when new servers are available, move all services from RZG to GWDG(continuum, some repositories, blogs etc.)
 * then move servers from RZG to GWDG..

Progress reports

 * Thursday, 14.00 Hours