From bexis2-users at listserv.uni-jena.de Wed Jan 3 13:41:08 2018 From: bexis2-users at listserv.uni-jena.de (bexis2-users at listserv.uni-jena.de) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 13:41:08 +0100 Subject: [BEXIS2-Users] Invitation to a joint meeting of BEXIS data managers/coordinators Message-ID: Dear all, First of all, Happy New Year to everyone! We would like to set up a joint meeting (or WebConf) of all data managers/coordinators maintaining and running a BEXIS 1 or 2 instance. The purpose of this meeting is to collect user requirements from the community again in order to plan the next release(s) of BEXIS 2 (both, in terms of features and time). The goal is to produce a prioritised list of feature requests (user stories) for the next release(s). Please indicate your interest and availability in the Foodle (please leave a comment, if you prefer to join remotely): https://abstimmung.dfn.de/foodle/BEXIS-2-requirements-collection-meeting-2018-5a4cc In order to have a productive meeting, please prepare a list of feature requests (3-5 items) and describe each one as a user story beforehand. During the meeting the focus will be on coordinating, harmonizing and prioritising the different user stories brought to the table by the participants. Looking forward to meeting you in Jena (or remotely), Roman FYI: Before X-mas we conducted a meeting with most BEXIS 2 core developers to identify issues/shortcomings in the current development process. We came up with quite a list of things that could be improved. We grouped them into 5 categories: workflow, documentation, best-practices, testing, tooling and decided to implement them gradually. For example, we decided to go more open and shift from our local MS Team Foundation Server to a public GitHub repository for code and task management (incl. issue tracking). To kick-off these improvements we will spend most of our time in January on that. So feature development will resume in February 2018 based on the results of our joint meeting mentioned above. -- Roman Gerlach Head of Research Data Management Helpdesk Michael-Stifel Center, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2-4, 07743 Jena (Germany) Visiting address: Leutragraben 1, Jentower 17N04, Jena (Germany) +49-(0)3641-948968 http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5104-4247 http://www.researchdata.uni-jena.de/ http://bexis2.uni-jena.de/