Milestone Builds

Build 2: Apr 5

Theme: stabilize POC, begin runtime web app design

WF: make simple case really work

form/templates: automate conversion/import of existing content via script for a meaningful subset of real content; figure out structure of web project WRT to src/gen files

ITinfo: preview; prototype Prod Info

runtime: first whack at webapp design

for future: begin authN w/certs; synch w/Alf re: link mgmt; understand deployment

Build 3: Apr 19

Theme: dig into runtime web app

WF: box it up -- figure out what we know, what we need, and make Alf do the rest

forms/templates: automate conversion of website content

ITinfo: write up types of documents; putting articles into normal content tree [not done]

runtime: have business requirements sorted; [done] have plan for add-on projects (scope v1 vs future); have a first-pass runtime web app for simple cases [not done]

deployment: stopgap deployment so we can start to test web app w/content (get runtime system setup) [not done]

testing: a simple smoke test; process for integration, testing, roll-out. Staging is our integration point, yet it is also the "ready to deploy" point. How do we do this? [ not done]

Build 4: May 3

Theme: find a solution to ITinfo

WF: n/a

forms/templates: continue automated conversion

ITinfo: find a solution to filtering/searching for ITinfo items both at preview time & runtime

runtime: get runtime system setup

other: n/a

Build 5: May 17

Theme: get the runtime app (web server) going on ISDA-IST1, upgrade to Alf 2.01

WF: check in small changes to pooled & parallet WFs

forms/templates: get existing stuff working in 2.01; refine migrated content to go to "general" template when feasible; develop new templates at the next level

ITinfo:
- get a representation of the topic hierarchy (with numbers and names) as a static tree (later make it dynamic)
- in migration, turn keyword string in to separate field values; watch out for character issues w/encodings*
- describe all types of documents besides Stock Answers & Prod Info; start putting articles into normal content tree

runtime: design & implement first-pass runtime web app on Tomcat

deployment: stopgap deployment so we can start to test web app w/content

infrastructure: migrate to Alf 2.01 (partial)

Build 6: May 31 June 7

Theme: more Alf 2.01 integration, real web app & deployment

Task List:

[Ann-Patrice] Forms/Templates: refine migration scripts to port content to "general" template when feasible, first pass
[Ann-Patrice] Forms/Templates: develop new two column template for current pages
[Ann-Patrice] Forms/Templates: investigate ( design?) a template between "blob" and "general" which has header+footer+left nav+right blob - investigation showed little utility for a midway template.
[Ann-Patrice] Content Migration: develop scripts to identify pages which are blue-box, redirects, news or otherwise questionable for migration
[Ann-Patrice] Content Migration: work with Publications side to eliminate pages which are not going to move on to new design.
[Ann-Patrice] Content Migration: Update wget of IS&T site on bi-weekly basis and run scripts to capture changes from step above as well as new pages
[Steve] ITinfo: get a representation of the topic hierarchy (with numbers and names) as a static xml tree (later make it dynamic)
- [Steve] Step 1: put hierarchy into JSP in a form that ALfresco web forms can use as a drop-down list.
- [Steve] ITinfo: separate into a pure XML document and a JSP that reads this and formats it for ALfresco web forms
<unnecessary> [Steve] -ITinfo: in migration, turn keyword string in to separate field values; watch out for character issues w/encodings-
[Steve] Itinfo: Verify that Google search either uses the keyword string as-is or ignores keywords completely (in which case we may decide to discard keyword data)
[Steve] ITinfo: start putting articles into normal content tree
[Steve] ITinfo: document how to do content export
[Steve] [Joe] [Catherine] Runtime: layout high level architecture of webapp (Spring, MVC, security, sub-components, etc.) & assign areas
[Joe] Runtime: Create svn module for runtime app as a Netbeans project
[Craig] [DaveT] advise on use of Acegi in app
[DaveT] [Hunter] Runtime: develop Acegi implementations of Moira lists for access control (may involve a web service. Or not) WE CAN USE LDAP** [Hunter] set up supporting db or other infrastructure
- [DaveT] create impl ** will need to be refactored, as it is not going to be done in one build
[Steve] Runtime: implement assigned areas ** will need to be refactored, as it is not going to be done in one build
[Joe] Runtime: implement assigned areas ** will need to be refactored, as it is not going to be done in one build
[Joe, Hunter] Deployment: deploy-to-filesystem
[Joe] design deployment approach for runtime
[Hunter] Set up apache, tomcat, smb on isda-ist1
[Who?] Testing: a simple smoke test to see if "build" is broken
[Who?] Testing: define a process for integration, testing, roll-out. Staging is our integration point, yet it is also the "ready to deploy" point. How do we do this?
[Joe] Infrastructure: Continue to integrate 2.0.1 on isda-cs1
[Joe] Fix/workaround bugs https://confab.mit.edu/jira/browse/WCM-87, https://confab.mit.edu/jira/browse/WCM-88, https://confab.mit.edu/jira/browse/WCM-93, and https://confab.mit.edu/jira/browse/WCM-94.
[Steve] New IA Migration: create JSP to consume RSS feed

Detailed Release Notes:

Build 7: June 21

Theme: real web app, real deployment, ready to test?

[Ann-Patrice] Forms/Templates: refine migration scripts to port content to "general" template when feasible- First round of general template migration completed
[Ann-Patrice] Forms/Templates: develop new two column template for current pages
[Ann-Patrice] Content Migration: work with Publications side to eliminate pages which are not going to move on to new design.- work ongoing- new lists distributed June 20 for blue-box, redirects and non-conforming pages.
[Ann-Patrice]Content Migration: Update wget of IS&T site on bi-weekly basis and run scripts to capture changes from step above as well as new pages- wget from June 9 analyzed and migrated.
[Ann-Patrice] Forms/Templates: analysis of new web page design to begin creation of xsd/xsl pairs - Work begun.

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Build 8: July 5

Theme: ready for migration

[Ann-Patrice]Forms/Templates: refine migration scripts to port content to "general" template when feasible- second round
[Ann-Patrice] Forms/Templates: develop new two column template for current pages
[Steve] Content Migration: Update wget of IS&T site on bi-weekly basis and run scripts to capture changes from step above as well as new pages- wget from June 9 analyzed and migrated.
[Ann-Patrice] Forms/Templates: analysis of new web page design to begin creation of xsd/xsl pairs - next round (To be specified in more detail)
[Steve] ITinfo: get a representation of the topic hierarchy (with numbers and names) as a static xml tree (later make it dynamic)
- [Steve] ITinfo: separate into a pure XML document and a JSP that reads this and formats it for Alfresco web forms
[Steve] ITinfo: start putting "news" and "articles" into normal content tree
- [Ann-Patrice] make forms for "news" and "articles"
- [Steve] add automatic "guid" generation function to ITInto web forms
- [Steve] scripts to export data & format into xml, ready to load
- [Steve] load data into alfresco, to be managed via webform
[Steve] Itinfo: Verify that Google search either uses the keyword string as-is or ignores keywords completely (in which case we may decide to discard keyword data)
[Steve] Helpdesk questions:
- [Steve] what about Top 5? what is the requirement?
- [Steve] Help desk portal page - determine features, integration points
- [Steve] Find out how Help Desk Wiki will get articles into Alfresco
[Joe] make .htaccess emulation work for ordinary content

[Who?] Testing: a simple smoke test to see if "build" is broken