ACTION REQUESTED: Technical team - provide any issues identified on this to Sandra Other Teams - provide any issues identified on this to Gregg WHEN: By Monday Jan 30th
After talking with Sandra (who checked with a couple others) I am calling a tentative decision as follows. NOTE: Tentative decision means that it is a decision that is posted widely for stated period (in this case 1 week) - to be sure that nothing was missed in the process of coming to the decision. After that time it moves to Decision. Decisions can be reversed later with new data or circumstance — but are not reversed without good cause. We are working on documentation on when things need formal decision - and how and where they will be recorded. One criteria will be decisions that must be relied upon by others or other groups One place there will always be a link to the decision will be in the project folder (or JIRA Thread) where the work is being done. (a LINK rather than a copy of the decision is proposed to avoid a situation where a decision is changed — but random copies of old decision still lie around to confuse.) 1-Week Tentative Decision There will be two versions of the installer General or Regular Installer There is NO screen displaying or allowing the choice of components to install There is NO screen to determine where it would be installed The language on all of the installer screens will be very “low-tech-user friendly” Will be implemented soon - (as soon as screen texts are ready) so that it is available for user testing SysOp Installer Includes a listing of the components to be installed MAY allow installers to OPT OUT of SOME of the components (e.g. a listener) MAY or MAY NOT use the very “low-tech-user friendly” text on some or all of its screens. To be determined through tech team advice, pilot team info from pilot sysops, and user testing with Sys-ops (use of same language on screens has efficiency if it is not problematic for SysOps Will be implemented when there is a call for it - and we have better info on what should be included Tech-Build team can decide WHEN to build SysOp - and that may be NOW if it good to have something to discuss with SysOps — or if needed for HDWR testing — or for other reason. Rationale Non technical users will be installing the GPII on computers - such as their home computer The screen showing component causes some to worry because they don’t understand what it means - or what they are to do. It stops others. Having non-technical people chose where to install can have bad consequences — and may make support and troubleshooting more difficult. Sys-Ops on the other hand may want to know what is being installed — or may NEED to be able to not install certain optional components SysOps may NEED to change the location of installation for some reason SysOp version is to be implemented when needed — so we don’t implement if not needed — and so we are more fully informed when we do. But decision left to Tech-Build team so they can coordinate Technical team - provide any issues identified on this to Sandra Other Teams - provide any issues identified on this to Gregg thanks Gregg Gregg C Vanderheiden [email protected]
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