This document summarizes an Equella open source support briefing held by Unicon. It discusses Unicon's role in providing commercial support for the open source Equella product. Key points include Unicon subscribers helping to fund sustaining engineering work, details on the recently released Equella 6.5 version, the community development process, and an upcoming community spotlight presentation. Information was also provided on communicating with and participating in the Equella open source community.
2. Agenda
• Welcome and Intros
• Open Source Support Goals
• Community News and Activities
• Community Spotlight - BYU-I & Equella Sync
• Sustaining Engineering
• Events
• Open Forum/Q&A
4. Equella and Unicon
• Unicon provides commercial support for Equella as an open
source product
• Unicon is a community member and contributor, we (nor any other
company) ‘own’ Equella as of 6.5
• Community drives roadmap
• Unicon’s Open Source Support subscribers drive Unicon’s
ongoing involvement in the Equella community (sustaining
engineering)
• Ideally, all Equella enhancements / fixes to be contributed
back to the community
5. Community - Equella 6.5-Stable
• Equella 6.5-Stable was
released last December
• Source, documentation,
addons in Github
• Github Equella Issues is
the primary tracker
• Demo version release on
Github - only core
components
• Free to include the Oracle
DB drivers and Kaltura
integrations
6. Community - Why 6.5?
• It’s free - no license needed!
• Security fixes
• Workflow scripting
• Customized email notifications
• Bulk Workflow
• Better support as Open Source
• Release notes and guides are linked from
https://equella.github.io/
7. Community - Building Equella
• Need GIT, SBT, and Java
• Straightforward to build via SBT
• Secure a Java signing certificate (optional, but
recommended)
• Choose optional components
• Libraries are pulled down via SBT
• Build via: sbt compile installerZip
8. Community - Apereo
• Formal Incubation process with Apereo
• Initial Equella Incubation call January 11th
• Exit Criteria:
https://www.apereo.org/content/apereo-incubation-
process
• Majority of these criteria were met in 2016
• We expect a speedy conclusion
10. Sustaining Engineering
• Each Unicon subscriber increases Unicon’s Sustaining
Engineering (SE) ability
• Unicon subscribers help prioritize SE efforts
• Open an S5 ZenDesk ticket
• Unicon will review and open a Github issue tagged with
‘Unicon SE’
• Anyone can add issues into the Github tracker!
11. Sustaining Engineering
• Issues in progress / resolved
– #229 - Force a reindex when Resource Metadata
ACLs are changed in a collection definition (merged)
– #407 - More detailed Report and Index logging
(merged)
– #377 - More Efficient Item Save (in progress)
• We want to hear from our Open Source Support and
App Support clients on issues that are important to
them!
12.
13. Open Apereo 2018
• June 3rd - 7th
• Delta Marriott Hotel in Montreal, Quebec
• Proposals due Friday, 26 January!
• https://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/ff0248e9-0795-437b-b96b-
a608c25608ed
14. Communication
• Apereo Equella website: https://www.apereo.org/projects/equella
• Apereo Google Group: Send email to equella-
users+subscriber@apereo.org
• Apereo # equella Slack Channel: apereo.slack.com
• GitHub issues: https://github.com/equella/Equella
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/EQUELLA
15. Next Steps
• Recorded session and blog post will be available soon on the
Unicon site
– https://unicon.net/support
– https://www.youtube.com/user/UNICONnet
• Consider attending Open Apereo 2018!
• Contact us for more information on Unicon’s Equella offerings
• Be active in the communication channels!
