iPToL ET 26AUG09

Attendees:  Sheldon, Dan, Adam, Sonya, Nirav, Damian, Jerry, Liya, Scott

Action Items:
AI: Developers: Contain notes on your own personal page and link them to appropriate working groups.
AI: Sheldon will provide Steve G with a high level doc of how all the working groups fit together and contribute to the vision of iPToL

Agenda:
Review of August 12 Action Items
General Update (Sheldon)
Introduction of collaboration spaces (Sheldon)
Developer's Update (all)
Open Discussion

Notes:
General Update (Sheldon)

Moving Form: Implementing the SDLC, Review of Development Strategies, feeds the SDLC. Gathering user stories will feed developers. Use cases are often developed up front, where guesses are made. With user stores, you begin with a scenario and you collaborative fill in the details.

Introduction of collaboration spaces (Sheldon)

Use of Confluence wiki. iPToL has its own area with spaces for each working group.
AI: MMS to add google calendar link to ET Wiki page
AI: MMS to link to web prof. user personas on ET Wiki page.
Architecture for the DE’s will ultimately lie with iPlant developers.
Security levels: top pages will be global-read, registered users will have access to deeper pages
AI: Sheldon will make sure appropriate access controls are in place as soon as possible.

Developer’s Update (all)

Jerry: still working to implement the web service, more coding. Please start interacting with Bill Piel.
AI: Sheldon will introduce Jerry to Bill Piel.
Liya: documented on wiki, review of modular software package, APE,
Scott: Importing trees to PHYLIP format, small problem with contrast in Phylo
Adam: Dendrascope, testing programs with increasing large trees
AI: Documentation should be moved to Confluence and the standard template should be used.
Open Discussion