OpenWetWare talk:Software/Development

Notes from 10/2/2007 Board meeting with Bill

Infrastructure

Move to new RackSpace server

• New production server should be up and available for testing by tomorrow (Wednesday).
• Changeover of IPs should happen this weekend 10PM-2AM on Saturday night.
• Ask RackSpace this afternoon if we can change the IP of the machine.
• We need to post the notice to the OWW main page and a message to the steering committee.
• Also need to move the blogs, dewikify stuff etc.
• Austin and Ilya will look over the switchover.

(We're currently paying for both servers so we want to do this changeover soon.)

Source control management system

• Being done but not a major focus.
• We want to eventually make this web accessible so that people can access all our code.

Upgrade MediaWiki

• Wait until after the server upgrade.
• Wait for 1.11 to be out for a couple weeks.
• Look at release notes to see if there is a compelling reason to update.
• Should not even think about this until after the server upgrade.

Modify and Enhance the UMS

• Released today
• Document describing it
• Going to wait on implementing anything more for a while.

Extensions

RSS

• 3 RSS extensions are up on the main site
• Move to 1 RSS extension by next month
• Announce to sc, discuss, extensions

Blog improvements

• A lot of spam comments <- need to deal with this
• Using feedburner - need to research feedburner for domains and give an estimate on what's involved in using this.

Word document importer

• We're not getting a perfect solution. How good of a solution do we want?
• Want to be able to maintain document structure upon import (i.e. sections)
• Could tell people how to use existing tools on a help page.

Other extensions

• Wibbit and Simple forms are installed and going