2020-07-15 TAC orientation meeting notes

5 mins

5 mins

ArchivesSpace program and governance

Trevor Thornton Christine Di Bella

• Governance Board

• User Advisory Council

• Technical Advisory Council

5 mins

Meetings

Trevor Thornton

• Monthly for first half of term, bimonthly for second half

• Joint meetings with UAC twice per year

• Last meeting is retrospective of activity for the term

10 mins

TAC Subteams and working groups

Trevor Thornton

• Integrations sub-team

  • Documents the integration of systems with ArchivesSpace

  • Integrations list: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/17137746/Integrations?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiYTY1ODFlZDYyZDEyNDQxMWI3NmYyMzVjOGVlMTM2NDUiLCJwIjoiYyJ9  

• Metadata Standards sub-team

  • Documents the metadata standards used by ArchivesSpace  and monitoring the standards landscape

• Technical Documentation sub-team

  • maintains and enhances all ArchivesSpace technical documentation

  • Tech Docs Github repo: https://github.com/archivesspace/tech-docs

• API Documentation Ad Hoc Working Group

10 mins

Cross-council subteams (with UAC)

Trevor Thornton Brittany Newberry (Unlicensed)

• Development Prioritization

  • Prioritizes feature requests and bug reports for developers working on future releases of ArchivesSpace

• Testing

  • Tests features and bug fixes during the first three weeks of a sprint

  • Coordinates work via email and only holds meetings when necessary

15 mins

Communication & collaboration tools

• Atlassian accounts

  • Same account for JIRA (issue tracking) and Confluence (wiki, meeting notes)

  • New members should all have accounts (confirm with CDB)

• JIRA

  • https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/secure/Dashboard.jspa

  • Comment or contribute to tickets as you can

• Confluence

  • Technical Advisory Council

  • TAC pages (within Advisory Councils space)

    • Responsibilities & Expectations

      • Please review on your own time, especially “Community Agreements” section, which serves as an informal code of conduct

    • Meeting notes

    • Subteams/working groups

    • Administrative pages and history of past terms

• Google Drive

  • https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16An6jjW-EpFW0zFcY_Yyiw6gA4VywKqG?usp=sharing

• TAC email list

  • archivesspace_tac@lyralists.lyrasis.org