Difference between revisions of "VCM 2005 May"

Latest revision as of 17:37, 26 April 2012

The VCM meeting was held May 12-15, 2005 in Seattle, Washington.

Software Life Cycle changes
Development Standards Documentation
Shift to Software Classes 2
Need for Certification and Verification
- Quality goes before Schedule
Discussion of Software Licenses
- General Public License
- Apache Public License
Telehealth and Telemedicine HUI has turned over custodianship to WorldVistA
VPE Development Responsibility transferred by David Bolduc to Brian Lord
Initial creation of Subversion repository by Jeff Abbott
- Exporting non-routine Package elements

Class 1 : Developed by Office of Information
- verified, meets VA Standards
Class 2 : Developed by VistA Community outside of VA
- verified, meets or exceeds VA Standards
Class 3 : Innovation by Local developers
- unverified

Certified VistA Verifiers
Certified Developer Process (similar to those of the Sofware Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University CMU SEI)

The toolset used will support for General Public License & Apache License

Subversion provides version tracking
Subversion only tracks text.
- Package elements need to have a text form
  - Discussion of XML format such as that created by
    - Art Smith for his PhD
    - Kevin Toppenberg for his Automated Configuration Script

Rule based installation process. Developer may mark a patch as not doing anything nonstandard, thus allowing for automatic installation.

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 * Development Standards Documentation
 * Shift to Software Classes 2
-* Need for Certification and Verification
+* Need for Certification and [[Verification~|Verification]]
 ** Quality goes before Schedule
 * Discussion of Software Licenses