VCM 2005 May

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

Primary outcome of the meeting

  • 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

Standards Documentation

Software Classes

  • 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

Certification of Individuals

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


Discussion of Software Licenses

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

Subversion Repository

  • Subversion provides version tracking
  • Subversion only tracks text.
    • Package elements need to have a text form

Future Plans

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