2022-07-08 - Meeting Notes

@Steven Maglio

@Ian Lessing

@Vince Nievares

@Kevin Wu

@Diana Antova

@Christian Montecino

@Elda Schaffield

Welcome

• Greetings and salutations

Vacations

• Diana Jun 20, 2022 - Jul 1, 2022

Site issues

@Steven Maglio

• Jan 14, 2022

  • We are not getting emails when people sign up for a new account

  • Emails were going to spam of noreply@developer.ucsb.edu

  • Whitelisted the account in gmail and that solved the issue.

• Jan 28, 2022 Jessica Dewett requested access to student APIs. Using her personal account. She requested a functional account from ETS.

• Feb 11, 2022 Steven will follow up with Jessica to make sure she uses a functional account for the application.

A&L Student Validator API

@Diana Antova

• Can we make it a generic API that validates an active student

• https://developer.ucsb.edu/content/arts-and-lectures-student-discount-validation

• Stephen has it ready for publishing. Diana will include Sara and Seth in the communication about making it a generic API.

• Jul 8, 2022 Stephen Barnhouse let us know that the API has some specific A&L logic and is best if it stays specific to A&L.

Drupal 9 Upgrade

@Elda Schaffield

• Drupal 9 Migration Planning

• May 6, 2022 COMPLETE!!!

  • Outstanding issues: 1 error from the developer module, Elda will debug.

  • Create documentation on the development environment, and add to the repo.

  • Tooling - explore the use of Laravel Valet - for local development, instead of lando. It is very efficient. Elda will explore it with Alex first.

    • Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans

  • Create automated tests

  • Elda is maintaining the site - applying the security updates

  • SSO integration. Elda will apply it to a branch so we can test the Apigee integration. We might be able to leave the old accounts as is, and just the new ones be SSO

  • in the future - look into the code refactoring

  • Drupal 10 upgrade (Elda will start planning for D10 upgrade after the summer - in general)

  • delete old sites - need to send a request to ETS to downgrade them first - Steven submitted the request

  • Install split config module so we can change the module and not get emails from the automated tests (future)

• Jun 3, 2022 Elda has implemented CAS in a dev site. It assigns Developer role by default. It checks for Student affiliation and assigns Student role if a student. It created accounts in the gateway correctly with the correct name and role. Elda and Steven are looking at using the Google API to add the new users to the Google groups - API consumer.

• Jul 8, 2022 security updates are ready to be released.

  • SSO integration - a new account is created and a developer role is assigned. A student role is assigned if there is a student affiliation. (https://ucsb-atlas.atlassian.net/browse/CMPRCWA-165 )

  • Elda will work on adding people to api-consumer google group. (https://ucsb-atlas.atlassian.net/browse/CMPRCWA-169 )

  • Release plan: After the google group assignment is complete. 1- notify users of the upcoming change, 2- check the SSO option for all users, and add their netid to their account. Deactivate old accounts (graduated students). Notify users of change complete.

  • Diana - ask Mike Nesbit to provide NetIDs for all accounts.

Misc

• Events API

  • there is a private campus M events API that Reg maintains, which was the issue.

  • Need to publish it in the portal for visibility.

  • Nov 19, 2021 checking with Seth on the status

• Chartfield API - deprecated, no usage.

Student Developed Applications

• GoGaucho Team: Hengyu Lui / Jimmy Lin

• Professors: Chandra Krintz / Tobias Hollerrer

• GoGaucho Improvements

• GoGaucho Meetings Notes

Jun 4, 2020 Steven and Seth met with the students. They are continuing to grow the sites. Two new members of the team are taking over. Henry is graduating, Jimmy is staying.

Feb 11, 2022 Meeting with the team on 2/17/2022.

Meeting and group focus year 2021

• Project focus

  • Resolve site issues after Drupal 8 migration

  • Transition the site to Elda’s team for maintenance

  • Drupal 9 migration

  • Front page redesign

  • AWS - migrate the Heroku code and the sql server database

  • Account cleanup automation

  • Identity integration and automation 

• Apigee Support

  • 1 FTE on the apigee team to help with student development oversight and support

  • Now the students have to contact so many groups to have their accounts setup, an FTE can really help with that. Adding the functionality to developer.ucsb.edu to create accounts.

    • Drupal - OK to work with a student

    • For other projects like identity account creation and others it will be difficult to work with a student