Date
Thursday, January 19
3:00 - 4:00 PM ET, 2:00 - 3:00 PM CT, 1:00 - 2:00 PM MT, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PT
Call-in info is:
Number: 888-354-0094
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Time | Item | Who | Notes |
5 min | Roll call and actions from previous meetings | All | |
5 min | Thanks to TAC members for recent listserv contributions: - Listserv
- Code, documentation and bug reporting
| | - Pull requests from TAC members since 11/21:
- HM cleared the backlog of pull requests
- Listserv contributions from TAC members since 11/21:
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10 min | Program update | | Staff - Tech Lead – Laney McGlohon starts Monday. She will be managing technical elements – code review, code committers, encouraging more contributions, managing relationship with HM
- Program manager – Christine Di Bella is program manager effective now!
- New staff - reset with groups; need to review staff and determine which staffer would be the best person to work with each group
Roadmap - The roadmap is a planning and communication tool to help the community know what to expect in terms of future development work and aid in planning for upcoming releases and application upgrades. A small team created the initial doc, shared with UAC/TAC; positive comments received about transparency and planning thus far. Feedback welcome.
Development - HM continuing work - refactoring an initial priority
- Small release in Feb – bug fixes, pull requests, etc.
- Major release in March - includes initial reports refactoring; beta PUI
- Requirements work continues
Elections process – Nomination Committee Chair will be decided soon and then nominations process will begin Governance Board - meeting in March Membership - We currently have 315 members. The most recent (i.e. since the last TAC meeting at the end of November) are: - Concordia Historical Institute (St. Louis)
- Hong Kong Baptist University
- Kennesaw State University (Georgia)
- North Carolina State University
- Rhode Island State Police Museum Foundation
- University of Texas at Austin
Laney will probably give these updates in the future. |
30 min | Committer Oversight sub-team update | Sally Vermaaten (Unlicensed) | - No current lead or chair for the group
- Poll sent out to group to get together with Laney, HM, and group to talk about how the group can continue to work well with Laney and HM
- Please fill out the Doodle poll.
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Technical documentation sub-team update | | - Focused on trying to create a list of FAQs to extend the technical documentation
- Spent a lot of time reviewing listserv topics
- Put together a call for the beginning of February to do a rundown of all current technical documents and review them
- Question about how user-created technical documentation can get included into official tech. documents
- Going to be reviewed in upcoming February meeting
- Sally mentioned that it would be useful to discuss document permissions
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Dev Prioritization sub-team update | Jason Loeffler (Unlicensed) or another member of the team | - Not much to report.
- Met today (1/19) to resume backlog and icebox grooming in support of ongoing HM development work.
- Future prioritization work will primarily address critical and blocking bugs, though feature requests will be considered where appropriate. Generally avoiding feature requests for now.
- Trying to get through all of the open issues in JIRA for the next couple of meetings
- Meeting to specifically address the backlog
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Testing sub-team update | Miloche Kottman Ed Busch | - The sub-team tested completed JIRA issues for the December 8th candidate release of 1.52. The sub-team has been assigned any additional testing since then.
- Testing sub-team has been tasked to do additional testing over the next few weeks
- Got a list of seven issues on 1/18, will finalize the list on 1/25, and will be looking at the list in February
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Migration sub-team update | | - Most of the work centering around EAD3 support
- Produced a "guiding principles" document for EAD3 and AS
- Created some export mappings from AS to EAD3 (see ArchivesSpace to EAD3 tab). Still in progress. Feedback encouraged!!
- Discussing the EAD3 mappings document in their next call
- Question: Update to data import and export mapping out of date. How can we update this?
- Raised questions for Technical sub-team. If new versions impact import/export map, who updates documentation?
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Integrations sub-team update | | - How to Integrate with ArchivesSpace ideas
- Also working on Why to Integrate with ArchivesSpace document
- Focus on trying to aggregate information on past integrations
- The idea is to clean up larger ideas and post them onto the main wiki site to accompany the other integrations info
- Integrations presentation at SAA
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5 min | Discussion on draft roadmap | | Any additional feedback for group? - Jason had a question about the roadmap timeline. What is the thinking for the roadmap beyond Q2 2017?
- Next step is to look at what can happen with HM and Laney on board post-June, but at this point we don't know what the major steps are
- Expect a major release in the Fall
- Definitely going to plan for beyond that
- Possibly Public User Interface and Rights Management are next up after June
- Sally believes the community will appreciate greater transparency with the roadmap, and whether it'd be possible to set a target date for a proposal seeking ongoing community feedback.
- No other feedback or final thoughts
- All responders have appreciated the existence and sharing of the roadmap
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| Next meeting time |
| Monday, March 20th, Noah Huffman on deck to take notes. |
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