Hello GREN Mappers,
As you may know, we are preparing to release the first public version of the GREN Map system software this year. At our last meeting, we discussed a draft list of tasks remaining before we are ready to do so. The list can be found on the Working Group’s wiki:
https://wiki.geant.org/display/GlobalMap/Version+1.0+Release+Task+List
We are looking for members to participate in two ways:
1. Review the task list. Please let me know if you feel there are any items missing to get ready for “version one point zero” release, or if you have any other feedback about the list. (Note that of course we intend for development to continue after v1.0 is released. There is a long wish list of features still in the backlog, and surely more will be proposed once this is out in the wild. For the moment, we want to identify what is required as a bare minimum for the system to function usefully and securely enough to start assembling real data and publishing some basic maps.)
2. Sign up to oversee tasks. We are looking specifically for names attached to the “Managed By” field for each task, not the “Assigned To” fields for the subtasks. What this means is that accepting these responsibilities would not necessarily imply doing any of the actual work (although we would welcome that too!), but rather to plan the implementation, recruit people to do the work, supervise the task, ensure it gets done, and briefly report on progress when appropriate. The task list page may look long, but don’t be fooled, the tasks are mostly each quite small; many likely involve only a handful of hours!
Please reach out to me if you have any feedback or questions, or if you’d like to go ahead and sign up to manage a task! Our imminent meeting is also another great time to bring anything up.
Ideally, we request your responses by February 1.
Cheers,
Ryan
Hello All,
I hope you are well. Who will be in person at TNC this year? From CANARIE’s regular working group attendees Tom, Ryan and I are planning on attending and I am sure some others. If we can arrange time to have an in person meeting I think it would be really great.
Would any of you have time on either the Monday or Friday to get together?
We can arrange specifics closer to the time, I would just like to see who is interested for now.
Best Regards,
Dan.
Dan Sellars | Manager, Software Development | CANARIE
dan.sellars(a)canarie.ca
Greetings GREN Mappers,
At our upcoming meeting, we can look forward to seeing a demo of the current state of the GREN Map software stack in the development stage. Thanks to Dan for assembling this demo, which consists of a handful of database nodes spun up on two of CANARIE’s cloud clusters, and their visualisation instances, plus some data from just a few participating networks at three levels in the data hierarchy. Dan will run through a quick tour of the software and how he’s got them set up, then we will welcome questions.
The demo should help us focus our efforts in the lead-up to our first public release. Though we have previously generally converged on the recommendations made recently by the development team, this might help illuminate some of the details and inspire further thoughts.
This is a great segue to the other major topic as we push towards an initial public release: the list of non-development tasks we feel are required to support the software in order to make this a viable product for the world to begin using. There are still many items without names attached to them. The GREN Map project wiki has been down for a while; it will hopefully be back up soon. In the mean time, in the meeting, we will review a local copy I have of the list, in hopes that we will continue to welcome more small contributions from the group. (Many tasks involve only a small time commitment.)
Thus comprises the agenda for the meeting:
1. Demo
* Guided Tour
* Questions
2. Release Task List Review
3. Other Business
4. Next Meeting
Cheers,
Ryan
