ICE-RS cycle 2007-04-05
Summary
Over the last 2 cycles we have been looking for programmers and have hired one casual whom will be starting in April. In the previous cycle a call was put out to USQ students interested in programming for the ICE project. Time spent on going through resumes along with investigating problems with generating Books has meant not as much effort was spent on the tasks we said we'd do. We did manage to release ICE 1.2 beta, which has a separate tool to update the application without having to make a new installer, along with the updated user guide. We also got the ICE server connecting to the RUBRIC LDAP which means we can have external pilot users.
This cycle will be much the same. We are talking with four interested students for another programmer position. This cycle we need to do more testing of Books especially those with MathType and log any findings with OpenOffice.org.
Predicted work units: 50 (9 day cycle)
Overview of completed tasks
Components
Administration
Setup ICE sever to authenticate with the RUBRIC LDAP (this is instead of using OpenID)
Investigate issues en-counted with using native word processor drawings
ICE user guide was updated for ICE 1.2
Application
Official release of ICE 1.2 beta
Release notes
Windows build
OSX builds
Overview of outstanding tasks
Components
Administration
Scope requirements to integrate with RAMP – Added to the bucket for now the ICE application requires more work before integration with RAMP can be looked at.
Setup ICE-RS pilot users as required (including setting up an area for the USQ FoB research clusters, Community of Practice and BOM research cluster).
Application
Implement the requirements to automate OOo 2.1 on the Mac without using OOo 2.0 – This has been dropped for now and we will continue to advise OOo of this issue.
Re-rendering issue (svn 1.4 property update issue)
Python render improvements from testing
Templates
Modify and create ICE styles required for the APA template
Overview of new tasks
Components
Administration
Setup ICE-RS pilot users as required (including setting up an area for the USQ FoB research clusters, Community of Practice and BOM research cluster).
Setup additional pilot users as required
Update Installation instructions for Windows and OSX for ICE 1.2
Application
Re-rendering issue (svn 1.4 property update issue)
Python render improvements from testing as required
Start work on a read only version of ICE for running on a server
MathType 'stress' testing
Templates
Modify and create ICE styles required for the APA template
Setup the ICE APA styles menu for the APA template
About the cycle notes
The cycle notes are used to summarize the outcomes of the completed cycle and provide stakeholders with an overview of the tasks for the next cycle. They are also used to raise any issues for discussion and provide other information for those who are unable to attend the meetings. Specific information on tasks to be completed are available in the ticketing system, see below.
More information
http://ice.usq.edu.au/trac/roadmap
Modified: Mar 26, 2007