UCB Deployment Priorities May-June 2013

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Last updated: May 28, 2013Version comment
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Priorities

This set of tasks has been made more specific and tied largely to May deliverables.  June tasks will be defined towards the end of May but will almost certainly be in the same priority areas.

  • Perform post-launch support for the Bot Garden
    • Ask Holly and Paul for feedback (May)
    • Training for pot tag procedure and hort staff use (May)
  • Determine whether we have performance problems, especially from the user perspective
    • Assess impact of term completion changes in 3.2.2 (PAHMA-813)
      • May 20: Repeat log analysis for term completion times (May)
    • STIM: Team discussion on approach and set out new tasks (Chris, Ray, Glen, Rick, Aron) (May)
    • Assess user experience of system performance: UCJEPS (2 hours - meet, identify and document pain points) (May)
    • Assess user experience of system performance: PAHMA (2 hours - meet, identify and document pain points (May)
    • Assess user experience of system performance: UCBG (2 hours - meet, identify and document pain points (May)
    • Identify any June tasks that are high priority to address performance issues (May)
    • Identify June tasks or changes (May)
  • Address critical stability bugs for existing deployments
    • Stability bug: Frequent re-initialization of app layer (authority search SWOD) (CSPACE-5988) (May)
    • Stability bug: Report server failures, tomcat restart (CSPACE-5766) (May or June)
    • Usability bug: Address side effects of term-completion changes that are making it difficult for users to find correct terms (CSPACE-6000 and CSPACE-6001) (May)
  • Django-based web applications
    • Finalize the framework (CSPACE-5981) (May)
    • Document the approach, with examples (CSPACE-6002, CSPACE-5990) (May)
    • Needs new styling: Build out Bot Garden reports that take parameters (UCBG-282) (May)
    • Done: Build out PAHMA reports that take parameters (PAHMA-818) (May)
    • Complete design and approach for larger functionality chunks (STIM discussion - Thursday, May 9, 3-4) (May)
      • See functionality notes at UC Berkeley web applications
      • Advanced search capabilities (e.g., modify advanced search to allow searching across related records, see STIM, UCJEPS-369)
      • Displaying images
      • Download search results into a file
    • Initiate design work with UCJEPS and UCBG (UCJEPS-404) (May)
    • Identify June tasks (May)
    • Build prototype search interface (June)
  • Decide how we want to host and operate deployed systems
    • STIM kickoff Tuesday, May 7, 4-5 (May)
    • Identify next steps and assign May and June tasks for following areas
      • System administration
      • Database administration
      • dev-ops tools
  • Develop process and SLA with customers to manage expectations and set priorities
    • Hold conversations with UCJEPS, PAHMA, Bot Garden (June)
    • Develop SLA regarding common and locally-specific requirements and process to handle requests (June)
  • Conduct initial planning for next deployment
    • Retrospective with team about Bot Garden migration (STIM/Discussion scheduled for June 6)
      • Write up and identify improvements for next time (June)
    • Selection (DAG, CH, PS) (May)
    • Discuss approach to ... (DAG, CH, PS) (June)
      • Project expectations/SLA
      • Project methodology and management
      • Functional fit-gap/design
      • Data analysis/design
    • Identify June tasks (May)
  • Perform identified work for CollectionSpace 3.3 and Mellon Officers Grant -- see the v3.3 release page
    • Unified config and other bug fixes (May)
    • Contribute UCB customizations to project (Show Related Objects; Add to Record; maybe others) (May)
  • Done. Upgrade UCJEPS to 3.2.2 (May)
  • Make progress on Delphi integration for PAHMA
    • What are goals for May and June -  images, metadata?
  • Incorporate Citation contribution from SMK
    • Review, integrate (including modifying code/config as needed), and test contribution (CSPACE-6006) (May)
    • Map SMK schema to PAHMA/TMS data (June)

Other irons in the fire

  • MediaHandling-CollectionObject batch process for UCJEPS and PAHMA (May)
  • Get backups going on dev.cspace (May)
  • Move ucjeps-dev to UCB data center VM (May)
  • BerkeleyMapper integration
  • Geomancer integration
  • Mellon Officers Grant UI/Fluid documentation tracking

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