09.07.2011 Developer Meeting

Agenda

Who Attended

  • Keith Woodlock (Ireland)
  • Andrew Hagner (USA)
  • Krishnan Mani (India)
  • Ed Cable (US)

Notes

Typewith.me notes and action items - http://typewith.me/ygkggiTlU8

Action Items

  • Ed to Inform TWN that check-ins should go into Elsie F release
  • Ed to post his screencasts in a good location.
  • Udai/Keith to add in reference data to Mifos so that new locale can be accepted.
  • Keith to share next round of prototype
  • Krishnan to send out updated concept note, might do demo in next 1-2 weeks
  • Ed to collect info on who's using BIRT, what version of Mifos, and what methodology
  • Ed to reconnect with MFIs on upgrades
  • Krishnan to continue engaging unversity students
  • Keith to connect with John on reporting estimates
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    Telugu Translation
  • Database of locales that Mifos supports. If want to add a new one, just add the reference around it. 
  • Add in the change to accept that locale - 
  • Can add it into 2.1.5 and could patch it into other branches. 
  • https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mifosdeveloper/3E46dw_Iui8/discussion
  • Action: Inform TWN that check-ins should go into Elsie F release
  • Currently going into Mifos 2.2 release. 
    Getting G Release to a full release
    Some issues with G release compiling in Eclipse
  • Michael V to follow up on it.
  • No major bugs currently
  • BIRT Exception when starting up in Tomcat (but not Jetty)
  • Action: Who's using BIRT
  • Would be useful to remove but probably a headache for many customers. 
    Update from Andrew
  • Will be looking for other bugs to work on
  • Colleague, John will be joining over next semester
  • Action: Ed to post his screencasts in a good location.
    Update from Keith
  • In next 2 - 3 days, will have enough functionality to demonstrate
  • Security, loans/client functionality, migration/bulk upload
  • Little bit of reporting as well.
  • Would then like to get close to actual customers who are in the individual methodology.
  • Set them up and get their data to have hands-on usage and see if it's something they'd use day to day.
  • After that, open part, APIs and exposing services then work on a proper UI, using some of these services.
    Update from Krishnan
  • Getting a beta version ready to see all the important concepts trying to implement in an end to end fashion
  • Handle transactions, processes financial transactions from Mifos, creates vouchers, creates reports - basic interface for accountant as user.
  • This would be different than any other system where accountant is not the primary user of MIS. 
  • Most MIS fall short of requirements for accountant - handle anything that MIS can provide. 
  • Some time next week, do a demonstration on a skype conference - host something on a url that people can log into and understand.
  • Put word out to the university students this past week - will probably receive a response later this week
  • Next Steps: put together a small set of tasks for them to participate in. 
    Update from Ed
  • Documentation sprint underway
    Upgrading MFIs to current versions of Mifos
  • Should encourage this strongly
  • Any way we can incentivize MFIs to get the upgrade done.
  • Experiences so far
  • Stephen Kaufman and IAS - upgrade didn't work directly from doing the deployment - not working out of the box, some issues with MySQL case sensitivity
  • Have a dump of their database for 2.1.5 and 2.2 - to verify that.
  • Waiting for Justin from Model Metrics - will do upgrade 
  • Kenya MFIs
  • Give them a dump of their database to see if there would be problems upgrading.
  • Not much of an update since last conversations
  • Once look at their DB, see if there are any issues.
  • Can then just follow steps for the upgrade - only 2.0 upgrade is a bit time consuming.
  • Krishnan: can we get more volunteers in each region to provide more immediate help to get upgraded. 
  • Is it possible to have a small set of scripts to give indication of what might be potential problem during upgrades.
  • Keith: data-check type query pre and post-upgrade - could do that and might be more useful for reasonably bigger ones. 
  • Does SunGard migration toolkit have any queries that might give a glimpse into state of the data. 
  • Might be possible to enhance migration kit so it can be used to migrate between different versions of Mifos itself in short term at least.
  • i.e. dump from 1.3, use migration kit and then use to migrate from 2.1
  • Keith: Current upgrade scripts work pretty well actually - IAS worked good except for some case insensitivity - went through pretty perfectly. 
  • Krishnan: which would be easiest version of Mifos to migrate to MifosX?
    Reporting
  • Keith to get some estimates from John on reporting 
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