Subject: [LON-CAPA-dev] Dev Meeting notes 11-22,11-29,12-6,12-13,12-20

From: Guy Albertelli II <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:20:57 -0500 (EST)

12/20/2005

Meet Wed 11:45 next week.

Ed

Gerd
 - new places added
 - public access gets the correct language
 - testing a 'partially correct check mark' for navmaps
A- add a minus to the check mark
 
Felicia
 - some finals stuff
 - usability class is done
A- capa 4 -> to the death!

Stuart
 - DC can select a course again
 - What's New unread posts 
 - modify the course request form to remember returning users
    - includes course name in email
 - what's new
    - unread posts supress count for speed
    - supression of screen perf on per course basis
    - threshold moved to per user basis
    - added ability for adv users to see what's new
 - SSO meeting
A- CHECKRPMS unification
 - rebuild SLES9 on s8
 - machine downtimes upcoming
 - BUG list walking

Rick
 - 2 step process to assigning metadata to a course
A- review Guy's changes

Mark
 - grant writing
A- grant writing

Guy
 - 2.0.99.1 basically out there
 - 2.1.0 on wednesday
 - testing out things
 - BT .0. adds
A- add alt text to status icons
 - BT PGRD?
 - BT NAV?

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12/13/2005

Felicia
 - Getting teacher workshop/training things setup
 - Beging work on Jan. 16th meeting
 - mth112 -> doneish
 - Finals tickets and stuff
 - faculty seminars starting up
 - sarah usability -> setting up one-on-one stuff
   - starting up running through senarios

Rick
 - better interface look and feel to course association stuff
A- add a 'de-associate'
 - allow to associate to all courses
 - get together with mark and goes throught things again

Ed
 - thinking about future directions for lon-capa

Stuart
 - migrating lonnotify -> primary domain server
 - registration form for training (faculty seminars, THEDUMP meeting)
 - ISP/B meeting -> randompick issues...
 - Student photos acquisition will be easier 
A- Summer conference -> registration form
 - roles page DC select course not working
 - whatsnew course by course pref
 - looking at whatsnew and what's fast/slow
 - deleted posts still 'unread'
 - SLES9 -> s8
 - if 2.0.99.1 -> new CampusSource tarball

Mark
 - talk to rick about interface
 - looking at ideas for next FIE
 - chasing grant money

Guy
 - 2.0.99.0 -> s12
A- BT -> extracting data (scores etc.)
 - bug fixes
 - poke around looking at things making sure they work
 - 2.0.99.1

Gerd
 - Paper -> American Journal of Physics
A- look into 2 new parameters (grading category and grading spreadsheet)
 - RET supplement?

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12/6/2005

Guy
 - grading queue for handgradable (no collision detection yet)
 - tested authen/authz redo of loncapa_apache.conf
A- 2.0.99.0
    - dcmail/dcroles
    - revert back to header.gif
    - jsMath 2.0
 - BT -> need to extract data
 - insertion of part 0 into internal data storage

Felicia
 - winter Final exam
A- finals finals finals
 - Course creation starting up
 - training page updates, faculty seminars coming up
 
Gerd
 - nsf NSDL intergration finished (needs to be explicitly picked)
 - sort defaults to 'most used'
 - resource search count off by 1
A- harvard stuff
     - reconvert and publish

Stuart
 - whatsnew - can pick which components show
            - version changes added
            - 
 - lonnavmaps - understand version
              - getByUrl can get multiple matching resources
A- what's new optional on a course by course basis 
 - add seminars to database
 - CHECKRPMS -> bind them together into one
 - dcmail / dcroles -> primary library server
 - msu -> downtime on the 21st do all the updates.
 - auto course creation -> add semester and course to title and emails
                        -> cross list is losing lon-capa section name
 - reverse proxy
 - buy list to Gerd
     - SuSe
     - KVM cables
     - Rack mount hardware
     - ethernet cables
     - hard drive enclosures

Rick
 - another bug to the course metadata restrictions
A- graded document return

Mark
 - PT3 get together some people interested in resource sharing aspects
 - followed up on rick's work
A- will take a look at rick's stuff again

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11/29/2005

Felicia
 - winter final exam conversion
 - planning a THEDUMP meeting
A- meeting with possibly a new writer from the center

Ed
 - HS teachers with a student helper more effective at using lon-capa

Stuart
 - Fowlerville is back alive - to be updated
 - mail fixes
     - sort mail by course
     - course mail when replied to preserves course context
     - critical and broadcast messages in sent folder include a meningful 
       subject
     - attempting to eliminate some duplicated data with regards to the 
       broadcast messages
 - about me page show both subject and body for all messages
A- whatsnew page
     - speedups
     - configurability
 - follow up on the clicker brown bag

Rick
 - bug fixes to course restriction portfolio
A- look at instructor return of corrected documents

Ron
 - extra whitespace with <center> inside a <td>
 - table nesting looked at
A- table nesting is at best okay try to improve

Guy
 - added accessor for gradingqueue
 - tested modifications to access/authen/authz phases
A- 2.0.99.0
 - Shoot for the Monday the 19th for 2.1
 
Mark
 - Paper was accepted to SITE
 - check up on Rick
A- meeting with TE people

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11/22/2005

Felicia
 - conversion conversion conversion (winter) (quite nearly done)
 - usability sent to Sara(h)
 - portfolio seminar (LCTTP)
A- conversion (winter)

Rick
 - course metadata restrictions should be finished off
A- code cleanups
 - handle the internal metadata (autorspace, lastmodifed etc)

Gerd
 - NSDl search 
    - query done
    - parse of result
 - more RSS playing (blogs/announcements/podcast) (delayed till 2.2)
 - name/nickname caching
A- NSDL search
    - reformat so it looks like what we want
    - filter lon-capa results
 - BUG list
 - buy a SLES 9 license

Stuart
 - course groups
    - simple page -> display group funtionality / group welcome page
    - parameter group setting (first pass only picks the first group)
            - changin it to cascade through groups
 - lonroles -> working on getting recent roles DC pick of CC role
 - CSE machine done
A- whatsnew cleanup / performance
 - BUG list
 - tell gerd what to buy

Mark
 - collaborative exchange occurred (some interest expressed especially 
   resource sharing)
 - met with TE about lon-capa
A- review things with Rick

Guy
 - stuff
A- 2.0.99.0
 - gradingqueue cleanup
 - SPRS performance .. delay parameter 
 - BUGS galore
 - stick data to version_2_1_X tag 

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