Timetable - moving to a predictable release schedule
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At the March, 2014 DuraSpace Sponsor Summit in Washington, DC, VIVO sponsors in attendance expressed approval for moving to a regular release schedule as a means of bringing bug fixes and new features into production in a more predictable timeframe. Early summer and late fall have been selected as release dates to precede summer vacation and winter break periods, when key developers and testers may be unavailable. The timetable for VIVO 1.7 has been adjusted to fit this paradigm only recently and the release will therefore be modest in scope, focusing primarily on improvements and bug fixes to features introduced in VIVO 1.6, 1.6.1, and 1.6. |
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2, as well as a new integration with the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) application programming interface that will allow researchers to create and/or confirm ORCID iDs from within VIVO (see VIVO-ORCID Integration). For a longer picture view, see the VIVO Technical Roadmap presentation from the March DuraSpace Sponsor Summit. |
What's included?
Documentation for the release is being developed on a different wiki to avoid confusion with current installation and implementation functionality, but will be moved to this space at the time of the release.
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- Grant obligations – the VIVO-ORCID grant promised to include creation and confirmation of ORCID iDs in the next VIVO release
- Community – we have heard from multiple fronts that as VIVO installations grow in size, performance degrades when editing and with large pages
- Coherence – feedback on new features introduced in 1.6 such as the web services API suggests changes that would make them truly useful
- Bugs – assessed for priority based on likelihood of occurrence and seriousness of impact
- Resources – the VIVO development team is 1 developer (Jim Blake) with part-time assistance from a few other developers, testers, and documenters – we will run out of time before we run out of tasks
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Planning for VIVO 1.8 will start even before the release of 1.7 and can based on the VIVO Technical Roadmap and community input, and will also be tracked in Jira. Identification of features, requirements gathering, time estimation, and priority ranking will happen via the VIVO working groups under the overall coordination of Layne Johnson, the new VIVO Project Director. The biggest variable will be the amount of development time that can be allocated to the project by the community, either in the context of membership or by direct participation.
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