EVS Focus Meeting Minutes - 24 July 2014

Attendees

#	Assigned	Description	Date Identified	Due Date	Date Completed	Status
	Mayo/Jason	We have run into multiple issues where the performance on the DEV tier has be a problem due to Mayo not being able to replicate the slow points due to the drastic difference in DEV resources. We discuss this with the systems team and they requested us to put in a DRT ticket that provides the specs to match the Mayo DEV server.	08/30/13		7/16/2014	A new development server has been procured and is currently being setup. This AI will be closed.

Area of Interest	Details
LexEVS 6.2	The DB is setup and firewall exceptions are in place. Once the application server is setup the DB team will provide that information to the systems team.
Report Writer	There is a possible external users for the Report Writer from EBI. Gilberto is setting up a meeting to discuss further with them.
Term Browser	Had the ARC meeting for the Term Browser 2.5 environments on Tuesday. We have a tag with the Tech Stack updates available when the DEV server is setup.
Meta Download Validation App	Deployment to production has been completed. Clint Malone will be putting in the ticket for the URL redirect.
Term Suggestion Form	We have a tag with the Tech Stack updates available when the DEV server is setup. Completed the PTE and submitted the DRT request for creating the container and deployment.
NCIm Browser	We have a tag with the Tech Stack updates available when the DEV server is setup. Completed the PTE and submitted the DRT request for creating the container and deployment.

Issue Number	Description	Status
NCITERM-602	Tree Hierarchy Redesign.	Designed and implemented Javascript for navigating value set trees using only tab key, shift-tab key, space-bar, and enter key.
NCITERM-618	Minimize term browser home page startup delay.	Reallocated term browser home page rendering delay to application initialization.
NCITERM-613	Remove the minimum 3-character search string length restriction on all name searches.	Coding completed.
NCITERM-614	Single character Exact Match/Relationship search fails to return results.	Implemented a work-around to repair the defective iterator returned by the search by association method.
NCITERM-602	Tree Hierarchy Redesign.	Started to design a SimpleTreeUtils class for constructing value set trees that do not depend on Yahoo UI javascript library.
TERMFORM-70	JAVA 1.7 Upgrade	Competed.
TERMFORM-71	Update Build Scripts for move to Tomcat	Completed.

#	Description	Due Date	Resources	Notes	Risks	Mitigation

Area of Interest	Details
Term Browser 2.5 Release	Continue design activities for new feature requests
NCIm Browser 2.5 Release	Starting to work on the tech stack updates.
Term Form 2.4 Release	Starting to work on the tech stack updates.

#	Opened Date	Due Date	Description	Likelihood (H, M, L)	Impact	Assigned	Status	Mitigation Strategy
	04/10/14		Deployments have been taking long periods of time. There is a lot of overhead getting through the iters	H	H		Speaking with members of the QA team to find ways to streamline the testing/deployment process	Finding ways to better integrate the development and QA team. Spoke to EVS Tools TPM requesting the correct communication channels.

Opened Date	Description	Impact	Status
7/17/2014	Deployment of software, even small upgrades, have been a lengthy process.	This especially affects smaller releases in which there are security or bug fixes.	Looking to implement more agile practices. Met with Suzette Johnson from NG to get an overview the Agile Framework to see where is can apply to EVS.