Minutes for July 21, 2008 Meeting

Present:: Jantz, Hoover, Liew, McDonald, Mills, Nakagama, Sun, Triggs
Absent:: Agnew, Mullens
Excused:: Ellis, Hartstein

Agenda

Drupal status and demo
Review of progress on Harvest migration to Reaper64
Status of event display

The agenda was revised to exclude #3, due the absence of Hartstein.
A Drupal demo was shown in IHL after the primary meeting was finished in the Heyer room.

I) Drupal status and demo

A) Timeline (Sam)

The committee stepped through the timeline (see appended, below).
It lacks specific dates for the production server to be worked on, but it does have a clear launch date.
The timeline for preparation of the staging and production server is in the hands of Hoover as he sees best.

1) WAC (Sam)

WAC was given a demo of the Drupal indexes in their current state.
WAC had comments and changes on the database description page (order of sections, labels, etc.)
WAC was told what the differences would be between current and the Drupal version (both losses and gains), as well as what things still need to be done, and what things might be delayed until the late October release.
Testing
- Rubric/overview appended below.
- WAC will conduct individual review of a designated portion of the A-Z list.
  Assignments not yet given. Will be done via email.

2) Accomplishments (Choong)

Clean urls
Static mock pages section
URL: http://drupal-____.scc-net.rutgers.edu/whatever/
Deleted testing area
Created a test user that do not have admin privileges
Replaced the drupal favicon with Rutgers'
Modified the left, top and bottom menu to match the current RUL web design
Modified the css, font size, color
Rearranged fields such as "variant title, Collection Help" in the database detail description page
Fixed weird characters
Modified the subject categories by changing
Created a referrer menu by subject in the subject pages - auto split the entire subject to 2 columns

3) Outstanding Issues (Sam)

A list of thing-to-do yet as well as list of things that will probably not be converted were discussed.
None of the problematic items are critical or show-stoppers.

4) Drupal demo pushed to be after agenda item II.

II. Review of progress on Harvest migration to Reaper64

The action items and decisions for this portion of the meeting are primarily captured in the spreadsheet that will be updated by Choong. As a rule, each project was taken in turn and assignments, problems, 'hold-ups', etc. were discussed. Most projects have someone detailed to address them (though in some cases an SCC student worker will be assigned tasks in the Fall semester).

I. (part 2) Drupal Demo in IHL

TIME LINE

Week of July 21 - 25
  Mon, July 21
   - WAC; Web Services Meeting

  Wed, July 23
   - Choong delivers preliminary readme and Drupal files for 
      initial installation to staging server
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Week of July 28 - Aug 1
   - WAC testing
   - more work by Sam and Choong
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Week of Aug 4 - 8
   - WAC testing
   - more work by Sam and Choong
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Week of Aug 11 - 15
  Mon, Aug 11
   - WAC

  Thurs, Aug 14
   - Full delivery of drupal from Choong to Dave for Staging server
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Week of Aug 18 - 22
  Mon, Aug 18
   - Web Services Meeting

  Tues, Aug 19 
   - Staging server prepared
   - Ready for sanity testing and release to RUL_Everyone
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Week of Aug 25 - 29
  Tues, Aug 26
   - Launch! 
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Labor Day Weekend

DRUPAL TESTING RUBRIC
(in order of importance)

URL (blue connect button) connects
Is properly marked restricted/not restricted
Properly has 'for help using these indexes'
Plugins look ok (some may erroneously have Adobe set as default)
Funder missing (NJKI, Vale, JerseyClicks)
Copy/paste errors (missing initial or trailing characters)

Notes: