2016-10-25 Meeting notes
Date
Oct 25, 2016
4pm-5pm PDT
Attendees
@Josh Zamor (Deactivated)
@Elias Muluneh
@Brandon Bowersox-Johnson
@Darius Jazayeri (Unlicensed)
Meeting link
https://www.uberconference.com/richmagnuson
IP audio, or Dial-in: 1-716-293-9263, meeting PIN: 60307
Goals
Discuss the Beta release - this is the last call before Beta is published
Provide feedback on extensibility
Discuss where 3.0 planning is and how this committee wants to be informed
Discussion items
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Notes
A productive discussion on Extensiblity, Beta and our current plan for a useful extension example occurred. Out of that discussion Elias shared a real scenario to ask how these mechanisms and the community would be utilized to avoid a fork. The scenario:
There are two organizations supplying commodities in country: MSL (ministry) and CHAZ (charity). Of these most of the commodities in a requisition will be supplied through MSL. However for a few of these commodities (5-6), and only at some facilities in the country, CHAZ will actually supply those commodities. The requisitioning facility will fill out one Requisition and submit it and have it authorized. When the district supervisor goes to approve it however, they will essentially be creating two orders: 1 for MSL which will fulfill the regular commodities, and 1 for CHAZ which will fulfill just a few of the commodities.
This workflow introduces a number of important changes:
In briefly discussing how the mechanisms would apply, we thought:
a new entity would need to be introduced
the UI would need updating: showing supplying partner for commodities (what gets fulfilled by whom), config, etc
would need to use extra data on facility/product to indicate supplying partner responsibility
convert to order would need to allow 1 requisition to end up as multiple orders
How this is actually addressed should be fleshed out and discussed in future meetings.
Action items
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