Implementation Plan, September 30, 2006

Jira Reference

Summary of Tasks or Story

Steps

Resource Commitments

Sak-112

Message Center performance improvements and bug fixes

Wednesday Steps

 

 

Confirm with QA that Message Center performance and bug testing is released for production roll out.

Code Migration team: Emily, Thomas, Sandra, Jon, and Pat

 

 

Review QA's comments entered into Jira tickets from testing.

Thomas

 

 

Notify DBA (Geeta and Prabhu) of their involvement and determine their availability during the Saturday roll out.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Notify system administration of their involvement and determine their availability during the Saturday roll out.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Notify Communications (Michael G.) that there will be production activity this weekend.

Sandra and Kirk

 

 

Friday Steps

 

 

 

Compile all source code and check files into Subversion?

Thomas and Emily

 

 

(other Subversion steps getting things ready for prod)

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Notify System Administration of expected downtime.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Compile list of functional changes to Message Center that will be made available via the expected roll out. Provide this list to Communications to announce to SmartSite customers.

Sandra

 

 

(other things for Friday – what are they?)

 

 

 

Saturday Steps

 

 

 

Check out source from Subversion?

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Shut down system if necessary.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Copy executables to SmartSite production.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Bring system back online.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Notify Sandra and Kirk that the installation is complete.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Log onto system and exercise Message Center's new functionality

Sandra and Kirk

 

 

Report any unexpected behavior if observed.

Sandra and Kirk

SAK-203

Have SmartSite.ucdavis.edu point to our Sakai production server. (How is this to coordinate with the skin change in SAK-221?)

Wednesday Steps

 

 

 

Confirm with QA that SmartSite Host name testing is released. (Actually, I don't know how this will be tested. Maybe there is a test DNS server.)

Code Migration Team

 

 

Review QA's comments entries in Jira ticket.

Don't know. Who is this?

 

 

Notify Data Center of their involvement and determine their availability during the Saturday roll out.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Notify System Administration ( and John Harris?) of their involvement and determine their availability during the Saturday roll out. (Not sure who makes the entries in DNS.)

Emily and Thomas

 

 

Friday Steps

 

 

 

(Don't know what goes here for this task.)

Don't know. Who is this?

 

 

Notify System Administration of expected downtime.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Write up changes for SmartSite Host Name Server changes expected for the production roll out. Provide this to Communications to communicate with SmartSite customers

Sandra

 

 

(Other Friday things go here. What are they?)

 

 

 

Saturday Steps

 

 

 

Make the changes to DNS

Don't know. Someone at the DC?

 

 

Notify Sandra and Kirk that the installation is complete.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Log onto SmartSite and verify that SmartSite.ucdavis.edu goes to our production server.

Sandra and Kirk

 

 

Report any unexpected behaviour if observed.

Sandra and Kirk

SAK-197

Support and Training tool button should appear on all new course and project sites. This is a change to the batch course create programming.

Wednesday Steps

 

 

 

Confirm with QA that adding the Support and Training tool button programming change is released for production roll out.

Code Migration Team

 

 

Review QA's comments entries in Jira tickets.

Thomas

 

 

Notify DBA (Geeta and Prabhu) of their involvement and determine their availability during the Saturday roll out.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Notify System Administration of their involvement and determine their availability during the Saturday roll out.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Notify Communications that there will be production activity this weekend.

Sandra and Kirk

 

 

Friday Steps

 

 

 

Compile all source code and check files into Subversion?

Thomas and Emily

 

 

(other subversion steps for Saturday roll out)

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Notify System Administration of expected downtime.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Compile list of functional changes to Course Create Program that will be made available via the expected roll out. Provide this list to Communications (Michael G.) to communicate with SmartSite customers.

Sandra

 

 

Saturday Steps

 

 

 

Check out source from Subversion?

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Shut down system if necessary.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Copy executables to SmartSite production

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Bring system back online.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Run batch create program to creat new course sites and verify that course sites are created with the link to Support and Training site.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Notify Sandra and Kirk that the installation is complete.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Verify that the new course sites have been created with the link to Support and Training site.

Sandra and Kirk

 

 

Report any unexpected behavior if observed.

Sandra and Kirk

SAK-221

Skin changes for new login / logout and Menu Roll-over (How is this to affect SAK-204?)

Wednesday Steps

 

 

 

Confirm with QA that skin changes for new login / logout and Menu Roll-over testing is released for production roll out.

Code Migration team

 

 

Review QA's comments entries in Jira tickets.

Thomas

 

 

Notify DBA (Geeta and Prabhu) of their involvement and determine their availability during the Saturday roll out.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Notify System Administration of their involvement and determine their availability during the Saturday roll out.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Notify Communications that there will be production activity this weekend.

Sandra

 

 

Friday Steps

 

 

 

locate skin files and consolidate them in Subversion.

Thomas, Emily, and Simon

 

 

(other Subversion activities go here)

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Notify System Administration of expected downtime.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Compile list of functional and observable changes to the SmartSite skin that will be made available via the expected roll out. Provide this list to Communications to communicate with SmartSite customers.

Sandra

 

 

(other things for Friday)

 

 

 

Saturday Steps

 

 

 

Check out skin files from Subversion

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Shut down system if necessary

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Copy skin files to SmartSite production

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Bring the system back online.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Notify Sandra and Kirk that the installation is complete.

Thomas and Emily

 

 

Log onto SmartSite, observe and exercise new skin changes.

Sandra and Kirk

 

 

Report any unexpected behavior if observed.

Sandra and Kirk