Grouper Developers Forum

[Emily Eisbruch <>]

Draft Minuntes: Grouper Call of June 4, 2014

Attending

Tom Barton, University of Chicago (Chair)
Dave Langenberg, University of Chicago 
Chris Hyzer, University of Pennsylvania 
Shilen Patel, Duke University 
Jim Fox, University of Washington 
Gail Dunmire, The Pennsylvania State University 
Emily Eisbruch, Internet2, scribe 

New Action items

[AI] (Tom) will reach out to another CIC School to see if they can help with testing. 

Carry Over Action items

[AI] (Gail) will assist with testing the new Grouper UI (Gail has started this)

[AI] (Gail) will assist with Unit Testing Grouper 2.2 using Oracle Database

[AI] (Emily) share a publicity plan for Grouper 2.2 release with the core team 

[AI] (Shilen) create a Grouper training video on the new Grouper UI

[AI] (Jim) make the University of Washington group events AD updating code available on GitHub and document its availability on the Community Contributions page. (DONE)

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/University+of+Washington+Grouper+Project+Page

[AI) (DaveL) look at PSP ChangeLogDataConnector Inconsistency issue

https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/grouper-users/2014-02/msg00047.html

[AI] (Shilen) investigate ways to get new attribtues in a single step (after 2.2 release)

Documentation Action Items

Reminder: check if updates are needed to the corresponding Grouper Training video

[AI] (Dave) will work on the SCIM documentation.

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+SCIM+integration

[AI] (Chris) will document new Grouper UI, including config options

[AI] (Chris) will review the documentation on Organizing Services in Grouper

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Organizing+services+in+Grouper

[AI] (Chris) review documentation connected to Grouper API changes and web service changes for 2.2

• includes changes for getmembers and hasmember, etc (memberships and privileges can be Interchangeable)

• Includes changes to the Java API

[AI] (Chris) review documentation on Grouper User data

[AI] (Emily) review on documentation around legacy items

[AI] (Tom) review the Grouper Glossary 

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Glossary

[AI] (Chris)  will work on the Release Notes page for Grouper 2.2 release

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/v2.1+Release+Notes

[AI] (Emily) will review the Software Downloads page at

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+Downloads

Discussion

Release Steps for Grouper 2.2 

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Release+steps

Many items are marked done for 2.2.0.

Chris will handle the branch process when the release is ready. 

Chris will look at  the copyright wizard for this release and be sure it works correctly.

Testing Grouper 2.2:

-Chris will test using MySQL

-Gail will test using Oracle

-Jim will test using PostgreSQL

-Dave will test using MS SQL  

How far back to go (to which back versions) in documenting the upgrade?

Would be helpful to look at upgrading from 

Grouper 2.0 to 2.2

Grouper 2.1 to 2.2

What about sites still using Grouper 1.6?

Those sites should first upgrade from Grouper 1.6 to 2.1.

Then upgrade to from Grouper 1.1 to Grouper 2.2

-This should be noted on the upgrade page

Jim: University of Washington is doing an upgrade of one of their databased  from  PostgreSQL to MySQL.

Jim will provide notes on lessons learned from that.  (There are some issues with null fields)

Chris suggests this approach for testing:

-First upgrade the data

-Run the UI or web services to be sure it works (browse the UI)

-Run API unit tests in a different schema

-Run Web Service tests for extra credit

API unit tests are sensitive to the underlying database

Best to do an install, check the API unit test, then do the upgrade in a separate place

Do we need to run unit tests on Oracle?

Shilen did it and it worked.

Chris: It is useful to run the unit tests on an upgrade to test that the DDL was set up correctly.

Protocols to follow

-Set up a blank Grouper 2.1, and upgrade it, and run the unit tests on that

-Start from scratch on Grouper 2.2 and run API unit tests on that

-If you have a database that's full, upgrade  that to Grouper 2.2 and do sanity checks.

Chris has uploaded the tarball so unit testing can begin

Q: How do we manage versions of documentation?

A: When we change a feature, we indicate the version it's for.

This way all the docs can remain unified, rather than having separate doc sets for different Grouper versions)

Chris will work on the Release Notes page for Grouper 2.2 release

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/v2.1+Release+Notes

Emily will review the Software Downloads page at

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+Downloads

Emily will update the wiki main page and Grouper website to reflect the new release

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+Wiki+Home

http://www.internet2.edu/products-services/trust-identity-middleware/grouper/

Testing Schedule:

-Gail hopes to be able to test at end of the week of June 9

Is there a site using SQL server?

Chris: there is an Express Edition you can run on a PC (does not run on a MAC)

[AI] (Tom) will reach out to University of Iowa to see if they can help with testing. 

Chris will email the Grouper-dev list to ask if there are sites that would want to look at the Grouper 2.2 release candidate. (DONE)

https://lists.internet2.edu/sympa/arc/grouper-dev/2014-06/msg00003.html

Target release date for Grouper 2.2. Is Friday, June 20, 2014

 

Next Grouper-Dev call: Wed. June 18 at noon ET

Emily Eisbruch, Technology Transfer Analyst

Internet2

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