Searchlight weekly report - Stein R-26

It's been a busy week so there's not much work has been done this week (Stein R26, Oct 08-12). Here is some news from the community this week that somewhat affects the Searchlight project:

• Assigning new liaisons to projects: basically, the TC will assign who takes care of which project. That person will update on this page the project's statuses, important activities etc.
• Proposed changes for library releases: in short, for each cycle-with-intermediary library deliverable, if it was not released during that milestone timeframe, the release team would automatically generate a release request early in the week of the milestone deadline.
• Proposed changes for cycle-with-milestones deliverables: to summarize the discussion:
• No longer be required to request a release for each milestone
• Beta releases would be optional
• Release candidates would still require a tag. Need PTL or release liaison's "+1"
• Requiring a person for each team to add their name to a "manifest" of sorts for the release cycle
• Rename the cycle-with-milestones release model to something like cycle-with-rc

This week we will continue working on these tasks:

1. Complete these stories:

• Search panel links not operational for some resource types
• Searchlight UI Increase Visibility of search syntax help
• Normalized fields policy
• SL-UI: Loading of search terms fails after relocate

2. Draft at least one use case of Searchlight