IHE Testing and Tools Committee Teleconference Minutes 2008-05-12

Attendees

• Chris Carr, RSNA
• Didi Davis, HIMSS
• Bill Majurski, NIST
• Joan McMillen, RSNA
• Steve Moore, MIR

Minutes

Contributor Agreements

• Reviewed version prepared by Steve Moore with change notation to show divergence from base Apache 2.0 contributions
  • Substantive difference is elimination of clause about contributions of third-party software; clause is unnecessary because any addition of third-party software to the project code will be made by the Technical Management Group and not other contributors
• Is it necessary to have separate agreement documents for entities and corporations? Possible to eliminate entities agreement?
• Action: Committee members will consult their organizations about whether separate agreements are necessary
• Final versions of agreements will be clean documents, but will point to marked up version of Apache 2.0 license for reference
• Action: Committee to develop package for Board approval on June 12 tcon to include license and contributor agreements with rationale for selection

Process for Software Contributions

• Steve and Eric developing document to describe procedures for checking in and approving code
• Two models: Moderated check-in where all code is scrutinized before becoming part of base vs. enabling trusted contributors to check-in on their own
• Action: Steve and Eric will submit draft for review on May 19 Testing and Tools Committee Tcon

Committee Charter

• Need an enhanced version of the committee responsibilities language from the governance document to use as committee charter
• Add more detail about membership procedures, signing of contributor agreement
• Add description of the relationship between TMG and rest of committee
• Action: Chris Carr will add some additional language to governance description of committee responsibilities and distribute for review

Tools inventory

• Reviewed [[Implementation#Test_Tools| Test Tools] section of Implementation Page
• Need to get complete information on tools from Canada Health Infoway, OFFIS and Northwestern
• Action: Bill Majurski updating NIST XDS tools pages
• Adding contact info (perhaps disguised to attract less spam) is a useful item
• Action: Chris Carr will ask NU, CHI and OFFIS to update the information on their tool sets

Next Tcon

• Monday, May 19, 8:45am CDT
• Agenda Items:
  • Review Technical Procedure for Submissions
  • Review Draft Charter Language
  • Discuss responsibilities for preparing package for Board review

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