OpenWetWare talk:Software/Development

Notes from 10/2/2007 Board meeting with Bill

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.

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