2019-11-08 Meeting Notes

Motes: Drupal 8 Migration Notes

Links:

• https://docs.apigee.com/api-platform/publish/drupal/open-source-drupal-8
• https://www.drupal.org/project/apigee_devportal_kickstart
• https://github.com/apigee/devportal-kickstart-project-composer
• support for Drupal 8
• APIGEE-216

20 Sep 2019 Waiting to settle the setup with Pantheon. 

27 Sep 2019 Emailed Shea for an update. On holding pattern until we hear from Shea. Denise is out most of October.

04 Oct 2019 Shea scheduled a meeting with the Pantheon reps for 10 Oct 2019 . Ian will attend if he can. Notes: Pantheon Hosting Support Meeting 2019-10-10

2019-10-18

Ian met with Pantheon's Matt Paladino yesterday and discussed options for our Drupal 8 developer portal and hosting with Pantheon.

Matt and Ian discussed various options to setup the site and maintain it over time.
Objective was to have Drupal 8 core, Drupal community modules (which includes the Apigee modules) and UCSB Public Affairs theme and modules all as upstreams to our Drupal 8 developer portal. The good news is I think we can do this.

The bad news is we can not have ALL these flow into our developer portal at the click up a few buttons in our Pantheon dashboard.

So... of those three:

• 1.) Drupal core
• 2.) Drupal community modules
• 3.) UCSB Public Affairs theme/distro

Q: Which is the most important to have updates deployed via the pantheon dashboard?
A: Drupal core updates.
Because we want to be able to deploy security updates as quickly and easily as possible.
And we can do this. Pantheon's basic Drupal 8 site template comes with updates from Pantheon deployable via the dashboard.

For community modules....
We'll need to use composer (PHP dependecy manager) and Git to make updates on community modules including the Apigee modules.

For UCSB Public affairs theme & distro
We'll need to define the UCSB Public Affairs code a second "remote" in our Git repo. This will allow us to fold any changes made by UCSB Public Affairs into our codebase with minimal effort.

Note: If we had money to throw at the problem we could purchase a higher tier of service from Pantheon called "Mangaged updates". With this service Pantheon would also manage and deploy updates to Drupal community modules for us.

• christian.montecino (Unlicensed) Google analytics api usage reports - there is an issue with recording API usage. it does not match the gateway data. (APIGEE-189)

• 01 Nov 2019 Christian - sending traffic to Splunk since last week. The counts match! Christian has requested accounts for us. UCSB has an Enterprise license of Splunk. 
• 08 Nov 2019 We all have access to Splunk now. https://splunkweb.ets.ucsb.edu/. Christian will ask ETS to give us access to the dataset. Christian will add a documentation page Splunk Integrator to the developer portal, Gateway Admin section.

• GoGaucho Team: Hengyu Lui / Jimmy Lin
• Professors: Chandra Krintz / Tobias Hollerrer
• GoGaucho Improvements
  • 10 Jul 2019
    • Good news. The iOS application had the username/password form removed from the application and it no longer retrieves students data which has been screen scraped from GOLD.
    • Jimmy (the Android Developer) is going to add a security token to the Heroku endpoint and will be upgrading the Android application to use it before we next meet.
    • Henry (iOS) will update the iOS application to use the secured Heroku endpoint before the end of the summer.
• 09 Aug 2019 Today we met with the iOS developer. The user name and password are still there. Asked Henry to remove it. We also found functionality to view meal plans also with screen scraping. We will be asking Gary Scott if there is an API. We will meet with the android developer on Monday and ask him to remove the meal plan information. We gave them by 8/16 to remove the password screens. Henry thinks he can implement the schedules API by start of Fall quarter. 
• 16 Aug 2019 Meal Plan display in go gaucho - ARIT (Mike Blakemore) is checking with Blackboard what APIs they have available.

• Diana Antova to follow up with Henry and Jimmy on making the changes 26 Aug 2019 

13 Sep 2019 All screen scraping is gone now!  

26 Sep 2019 Next meeting with the student is on 11 Oct 2019 

11 Oct 2019 Met today. 2 new students joined the team. Developing a planning tool. Still an issue with the API performance. 

18 Oct 2019 Steven suggested to start working with them to setup alerts on system status as the app is seeing quite a bit of usage.

25 Oct 2019 Need to schedule next meeting

08 Nov 2019 Conversation with Registrar about student API use. 

Steven Maglio

• Steven Maglio Create requirements in Confluence (APIGEE-209)
  1. Confluence: Account Cleanup Project
  2. Dev Portal: Account Cleanup
  3. Can we add API Proxy name to the data that is collected?

26 Sep 2019 Database that collects weekly statistics was moved to a SIST dev server. Will move it to AWS when we get an account, possibly using Lambda functions. For now, the code (powershell) will be put in Github Apigee team.

The Registrar's Office has completed enough APIs that it's possible to replace the functionality of the private Department Courses Extract API with 

• Student Rosters
• Academic Curriculums
• Student Basic Student Info

The Registrar's Office is currently working on a Student Gender Pronoun project which will probably affect the private Department Courses Extract API and the Student Basic Student Info API. That project is set to wrap up in mid-September (before students return). Since there will be communication with API customers of the update to the APIs, it might be best to start the conversation about deprecating the private Department Courses Extract API after the completion of the Gender Pronoun project. This would give us 2 months to think about what's the best way to communicate a deprecation.

• Diana Antova email csf to announce the APIs

27 Sep 2019 we will need to create an extended Curriculums endpoint that includes the instructor employee id. 

04 Oct 2019 Diana will schedule a meeting with Gaucho Space and Reg team to discuss necessary changes.

25 Oct 2019 Reg IS team will be adding pronouns to the student API. And will prioritize the curriculum improvements. Meeting with Gaucho Space scheduled for Nov 5th

01 Nov 2019 performance issue that Diane Soini brought up. every night around 2 am the app pool recycles and the system calls the APIs. We are adding his call to the public APIs to make sure Gaucho Space is not the first one that calls them. 

08 Nov 2019 Gaucho Space will continue to use the DeptCourses API as they need an extract of all courses. We need to contact Patrick Windmiller to switch to the new APIs. We can ask ESCI and Library as well.