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Equella 2017 Q4 Quarterly Briefing
- 1. Open Source Support EquellaBriefing January 25, 2018
- 2. Agenda • Welcome andIntros • Open Source Support Goals • Community News and Activities • Community Spotlight - BYU-I & Equella Sync • Sustaining Engineering • Events • Open Forum/Q&A
- 3. Unicon Presenters Erin McGarrahan MC ChrisBeach EQUELLA Drew Wills EQUELLA
- 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 - Equella6.5-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 - Why6.5? • 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 - BuildingEquella • 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
- 9. Community Spotlight Equella Sync- Jon Fackrell
- 10. Sustaining Engineering • EachUnicon 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 • Issuesin 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!
- 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 Equellawebsite: 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 • Recordedsession 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!
- 16. Questions/ Discussions Contact Chris Beach cbeach@unicon.net DrewWills awills@unicon.net Q? A.