Ok, this is great - we have two kind professionals with experience with change management. I will be very happy for you to review a basic draft for change management in openEHR, and work on it together. The timetable is about 6-8 weeks. Inside the current 3-4 weeks we hope to have a basic set of plans written for comment. THese will be pretty loose, with the intention that people such as yourselves can make changes.
I think the aims for change control in openEHR need to: - be simple and clear. In "heavy weight" software engineering there are a lot of quite complex documents describing CM, SQA, test plans etc etc (e.g. like the IEEE stds) ; this is fine for software engineers, but we don't want to overwhelm the many people in the community who are not engineers - there will be a set of plans relating to the official specifications - this is what we are developing here. It needs to be recognised that that change management, release plans for any outside given project based on openEHR will usually be outside these plans - e.g. it may be done by a group on sourceforge, using completely different guidelines. I think this is fine. We just have to be clear on what is official openEHR IP and what is not. (Anything can become openEHR IP by donation. The consequence is that the work gets taken care of, even if the donor doesn't have the resoruces to do anything further with it, and it will be guaranteed to be freely available forever, according to the openEHR open source licence. I'm not sure of the official rules, but there will be some published). - we do need to be fairly careful with how we identify releases and sub-releases, particularly so that any new change is put into the correct release, and also so that any outside project can get a clean baseline for any release and know that it is based on "openEHR v1.3" or whatever. I'm sure Denis and Bill will have good ideas here, by the sound of their experience. Anyway, we are aiming to have something in place inside the next 8 weeks. - thomas beale Denis Petrushin wrote: >Greetings, > >Could somebody kindly provide a sample or link to what is done already for >the OpenEHR. > >>From my side I'd like to apply my experience in developing of change >request/ trouble report handling system that is implemented at Ericsson. > >Trusting the above to your entire satisfaction, would you accept my >distinguished wishes. =) > >Denis > > > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
