PSC Meeting Notes 2014 06 11

Topics / Schedule

1. Acceptance PSC Voting Process
2. Regular virtual meetings
3. Next Steps

• 3.1 SHOGun
• 3.2 SHOGun2

4. TODOs

Participants

• CM = @chrismayer
• MJ = @marcjansen

Notes Taker

• MJ, corrections by CM

Ad 1: Acceptance PSC Voting Process

• TA (=@tilladams) accepted the voting process last Friday (2014-06-06, see https://github.com/terrestris/shogun/wiki/Project-Steering-Committee-(PSC)/1cb4b181317257a3f8ef3148131b2619b2aee081)

• The new PSC can now make decisions as described here: https://github.com/terrestris/shogun/wiki/Project-Steering-Committee-(PSC)

Ad 2: Regular virtual meetings

• We propose to make a biweekly virtual meeting (e.g. skype, google hangout whatever)
  • Voting:
    • MJ: +1
    • CM: +1
    • TA: +1
• The meetings should be documented in this wiki (not the SHOGun2-wiki)
• We shall make it easy to participate at the hangout by announicing it on the mailing-list(s) 24h before actually holding the meeting
• If some topics are not fit for the general public we reserve the right to speak about these only with PSC-members

Ad 3.1: Next steps SHOGun

• Current PRs
  • https://github.com/terrestris/shogun/pull/49 (LazyInitializationException Users-Modules)
    • Review will follow at the start of the next week.
    • Very important as main functionality isn't fully provided without this being merged (or something appropriate)
    • The PSC agrees that the review process of such a 'trivial'/'small' change is too hard and should be made easier
      • The reason is the currently 'unstructured' usage of various fetch-types
      • We need some sort of guideline here.
• getAppContext
  • CM raises issue with security annotation (only non-anonymous user can call their AppContext) and missing real functionality (empty HashMap for 'app' being returned plus logged in user)
  • CM will create one or more PRs too change that method as outlined below
    • Secured for anon or higher
    • Hashmap 'app' will have the keys maplayers, mapcponfig & `modules
    • MJ agrees with the general structure of the above and is willing to provide a review
    • Blocked by #49

appDataMap.put("mapConfig", user.getMapConfig());
appDataMap.put("mapLayers", appMapLayers);
appDataMap.put("modules", appModules);

• General state of current master
  • In order to make it easier to use SHOGun from scratch we plan on doing the following:
    • Release the state of SHOGun before merging the refactoring-branch as SHOGun 0.1
      • TODO: MJ
    • This will lead to the current state being actually really unstable because it isn't released
    • Based upon the changes proposed above (under 'getAppContext') we need a very basic mapclient
      • TODO: CM
    • This client shall live inside of the SHOGun project, not as a standalone, since we only will use the published resources of the base libraries

Ad 3.2: Next steps SHOGun2

• Initial documention is there, can still be improved
• A lot of work is going into the project by terrestris
• How can we make it easier to allow participation?
• Maybe a code sprint can help
• MJ we still need to settle on a master-plan / general direction / architectural descicions
• PR discussions postponed

TODO

• SHOGun: Discuss possibility of GIS-Client donation by terrestris => TA
  • TA: Please specify what is meant - if the current GIS Client is wanted, that's OK after deleting some project-mattered functions. I have a list of project-unspecific functions.