Meeting 20120425

Development

• Joseph has been working on a polling replacement for watched directories, so we can use network or distributed file systems
• Joseph did a quick tweet to our dev-helper script, made stderr on a number of scripts appear in red, to find problems faster
• Joseph has been working on Issue 886, make overiding the default assigned threads by core count configurable.
  • Default is detect number of cores
• Mike C worked on the underpinnings needed for a file browser: added the ability to return directory structure data as JSON, adding the ability to configure source directories in the administration interface and using the file browser JavaScript widget I made earlier for the source directory selection.
• Joseph did a lot of work on the thumbnail generation. Put in some placeholders.
• Courtney has been working on issue 882: Management of persistent MCP metadata that does not end up in AIP.
• Joseph needs Austin's help on a few normalization problems in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Deployment

• CVA SIPs are freezing at the Verify checksums microservice, so Courtney's bringing Joseph some examples for testing next week

Testing

• Austin has been working on the scalability testing: http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Scalability_testing#Test_results. He will be running more test data sets through with different parameters once he gets Joseph's changes into packages and into the images (tonight/tomorrow).
• Evelyn will ensure that all those test cases get completed and documented.
• Peter feels that compability between VM packaging and hosting environments can give us unknown/new issues at time of deploy so he'd like for a way to test for that. But that's seperate from this round of scalability testing, it's something to work on for later.