UCB Deployment Priorities August-September 2013

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Last updated: Sept 04, 2013Version comment
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Note that the following priority work areas are listed in priority order.  However, there are high priority individual tasks that are further down the page in lower priority work areas.  All of these work areas are important.  Some will have significant attention in the current sprint; others are a thin thread of activity at this time.  The real activity tracking happens in Jira.  This page is not a replacement for that system.  It is a higher level planning document.

In addition to identifying specific tasks, this version starts to incorporate targets or goals for each work area, some of which are quite a bit further out in time.

Work areas

Continue work for PFA-CSpace

Targets

August - Wrap up requirements, finalize scope, start data ET, coordinate with CSpace 4.0 contribution
September - development starts and heavier data lifting
September - Complete solution design for gaps
September - conduct phase 1 of broader BAM/PFA collections requirements
End February - Launch

Tasks
  • Finalize screen designs and data maps (August) Priority for Chris, Ray, and Glen
  • Coordinate with CSpace 4.0 release, Work authority contribution (August)
  • Scope signoff (September) Priority for Chris and Nancy
  • Data Talend work begins for authorities (person) (August) Priority for Glen
  • Prioritize gaps (August) Priority for Chris and Nancy
  • Start customizations (September) Priority task for Ray
  • Determine scope on broader collections requirements, kick off, and conduct analysis (September) Priority task for Chris, Nancy, and Glen (with Rick and others)

Build Django-based web applications

Targets

August - demo UCJEPS prototype
October - UCJEPS and UCBG portals launched
November - Add some functionality (searching, images, downloading data, mapping)e

Tasks
  • Build and demo first prototype for UCJEPS (September) Priority for John L and Chris
  • Decide how to host production portal and set up production environment (September) Priority for Richard, John L, and Glen

UCJEPS Collector Labels

Targets

Done: August - Develop CSpace functionality
September - Develop label report
September - Test and release

Tasks
  • Build Label report (September) Priority task for Lam
  • Test and coordinate testing (September) Priority task for Rick
  • Release (September) Priority task for Rick

Develop CSpace Advisory Group process and SLA with customers to manage expectations and set priorities

Targets

September - Develop Service Level Agreement and advisory group processes
September - Discuss how to prioritize work

Tasks
  • Develop SLA regarding common and locally-specific requirements and process to handle requests (September)

Make progress on Delphi integration for PAHMA

Targets

When? - launch

Tasks
  • Resolve Open File bug when retrieving images/thumbnails (September) priority task for Aron with help from Richard (CSPACE-6110)
  • Next set of tasks on Delphi integration (September and October) Priority task for Patrick and John L

Botanical Garden page loading and performance

Targets

September - Analysis of problem complete

Tasks
  • Perform comparative analysis and troubleshooting to isolate bottlenecks (September) Priority task for Rick and Ray

Decide how we want to host and operate deployed systems

Targets

September - Select architecture for hosting CollectionSpace and web applications
October - Select system/customer for initial transition
December - Other systems transitioned

Tasks
  • Conduct experiment to confirm how to host data on a different server (September) Priority task for Chris with Ray to coordinate with DBA team
  • Decide whether to migrate an existing production system or start with new BAM/PFA deployment (September)
  • Meet with Unix team (September)

Perform identified work for Mellon Officers Grant and CollectionSpace 4.0

See http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Release+4.0

Tasks
  • Done: Incorporate Works authority contribution (August)
  • QA and release CSpace 4.0 (September)
  • SaaS and hosting tasks

Other irons in the fire

  • CSpace bug: Sorting by summary fields that are refnames (CSPACE-6124 and UCBG-329)
  • Jasper intermittent crashes (CSPACE-5766)
  • Nuxeo error: unexpected command status (CSPACE-6150)
  • Get backups going on dev.cspace
  • BerkeleyMapper and Geomancer integration
  • Mellon Officers Grant UI/Fluid documentation tracking
  • On hold: Image handling slowness for UCJEPS

Jira filters

TBD