MPDL Developer Meeting 2008-11-04

MPDL  Restricted Access to MPDL

Agenda / Discussion

 * previous meeting at MPDL_Developer_Meeting_2008-10-28

PubMan release 3.8

 * latest core version will be put on dev-coreservice to test the content download asap (DONE)
 * 2 APA citation bugs (Vlad, needs some time to identify the problem and check) (DONE)
 * snippet format enriched with new span element (DONE)
 * easy submission bug auto suggest for journals (DONE)
 * migration of pubman data (DONE)
 * pubman deployment (DONE)

(DONE) - Users are informed, they will put test data only on demo system
 * TODISCUSS: for all other institutes: once pubMan goes productive with MPI PL we should no longer use it for testing (i.e. OU structure will not be easily changeable). All pubman users have to be careful when they decide to use pubman.
 * backup, availability


 * To Check: is latest PubMan release on Demo/QA as well?
 * todo: should be available on test-pubman
 * todo: zip file for download
 * proposal: Move NIMS data to Demo system (check with Ulla and NIMS people)

FACES R2

 * test with new dev-core for content download - (DONE)
 * test better the search with limit/offset - (DONE) - FIZ will deliver bug-fix for Candidate release 1 (CR1)
 * friday bug-fix release (perhaps enhanced performance) - (DONE)
 * performance still an issue, can not be solved until FIZ provides bug-fix

VIRR R2

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

eDoc2PubMan migration

 * status
 * eDoc export has to be extended by collection
 * Authors/OUs mappings
 * delivery date agreement
 * another test migration will be done on QA
 * changes Karin sent will be included (by next week)
 * Karin/Nicole will have to take a look at the data
 * once QA is done by Karin and Nicole, data migration will be done on PubMan

Servers, infrastructure

 * CHECK BETTER: Server availability/order - hardware is ordered (open timeline for delivery)


 * infrastructure documented at ESciDoc System IT infrastructure - in progress
 * TODO: check status with Lars
 * new view (presentation slide) is created, further will be improved
 * memory and disk space order for existing servers (RAM and hard disks are expected to arrive on 27th. 10.)
 * TODO: Lars will check with Eberhard asap (for Friday)

Progress reports

 * no PR scheduled

Candidate release RC1

 * start using after delivered with new sort-indexes fix

PubMan R4.0 take-off

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