[Eg-oversight-board] 3.1 RM Update

[Dan Wells]

Hello EOB Members,

I am unfortunately not able to attend the meeting today to give an update on the 3.1 release.  I will be sending a larger update to the whole community very soon, but here are the highlights.

1) For the last point releases, we did an initial trial run of using a signup sheet for splitting build tasks among the buildmaster volunteers.  It is basic, but I do think it will help spread the load over time.  You can see that sheet here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gZayHfF7qK0zwLMEAXt-PbKBMiAM_F6EZguqzIYceBY/edit#gid=0

2) We are five weeks from feature freeze for 3.1.  Things have been relatively quiet, but updates to the roadmap continue to come in:
https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=faqs:evergreen_roadmap:3.1

3) I have made a first pass at making sure the roadmap and the related bugs in LP are in sync.  As part of this, Remington and I have also made significant progress in getting usable results out of LaunchPad's web API, and are experimenting with generating simpler views as a release "dashboard" of sorts (nothing fancy at this stage).

4) I am a bit behind where I had hoped to be by now in publishing a code-comment summary review of our Perl services.  After a few tries at making something useful, I have dialed things back a bit, but I do believe it will still provide some useful insights.

5) Bill in late December published his first set of notes regarding a transition to Angular from AngularJS.
https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=dev:browser_staff:angular5
Moving fully over for 3.1 was always a stretch goal, but I think simpler changes like Bill's proposal to switch to Webpack are very doable in this release to help smooth the way.

Sincerely,
Dan


Daniel Wells
Head of Technology Services
Hekman Library, Calvin College
616.526.7133