List revised, as of 6/20/07:
June 11 - UI Coding :
- Collections
- Advanced search
- Tags
- Authorization checks in place
- Metadata mapping gotten from the backend
June 18 - UI Coding:
- Bulk Upload
- Ability to dynamically edit the metadata mapping
June 27 - UI coding:
- Make filenames unique on upload
- Allow super-admin login
- Bulk edit of items
- Contact sheet when downloading from a collection
June 27 - Back End work to improve performance:
- research on how to make image conversion faster and more efficient.
- making item upload and bulk import calls asynchronous.
- making the ime clusterable. (right now the IME caches the user info and uses a local file to store the user isAdmin info).
June 25 - Server Installation and Configuration
- June 8 - Build a Thalia stack similar to the current test stack, but uses MySQL instead of Oracle.
- June 13 - Build a test stack and test backup, recovery, and moving of data store and data base between servers.
- June 15 - Web SSO configuration and testing
- June 19 - Build the thalia5-7 production stack.
- Later June: Building a monitoring setup will be my top priority, and doing second level testing of backup and restore, adjusting for potential Alfresco version updates.
July 9 - Testing - front and back end
July 16 - Code Freeze
Other activities for release:
Helpdesk communication - contacting Jane White
Server Ops communication
- Ops Run book
User Documentation (Contractor)
Publications
- Posters and flyers (meeting June 12)
- IS&T newsletter article
Post July release
- High availability mode modifications
- Slideshows
May task list, after consulting with Qing:
F5 not a short-term concern
Using Thalia 1 as a dev environment
May 3 - Finish REST API testing plan - Andrew
May 4 - Thalia 2,3,4 as layers - Hunter
Thalia 2 - Front end / business layer
Thalia 3 - Alfresco
Thalia 4 - Database
May 8 - Test Environment Ready
Internal testing - Qing, Robin, Hunter
May 9 - API Test Writing beings - Andrew
May 9 - Communicate with Questcon, UI test plan and writing begins - Qing
May 15 - Back End code complete - Qing
May 31 - UI code complete - Robin
May 31 - Creating the REST API test - Andrew
June 1 to 31 - Executing the REST API test - Andrew
June - UI Test execution begins - Questcon
June - User documentation - Tech Writer?
Date? - Production Cluster ready - Catherine (machine acquisition), Hunter?
(From Jody Housman: Two machines are already in stock, third machine on order, expected in time for the July limited-release)
Date? - Deployment Strategy
Engage Ops - backup, disaster recovery, machine support
Engage Helpdesk - first line support
ISDA software support plan - ?
Date? - User communications (before July Beta release)
Advertisement/marketing
Feedback/bug reporting channel established
- Get Machines, F5 access
- Separating layers, Functional Coding
- Dev Cluster, Functional Coding
- Test Cluster
- QA Testing (UI/Back end)
- Production Cluster
- User Acceptance Testing