2020-11-19 TAC meeting notes

5 min

Roll call

Trevor Thornton

• Notetaker: Andrew Morrison (Unlicensed)

• Next time (going alphabetically): Dallas Pillen

5 min

Recent Contributions

Trevor Thornton

Shoutouts since June!

• Listserv:

  • Rachel Aileen Searcy

  • Kevin W. Schlottmann

• Github:

  • Alicia Detelich

• Jira tickets:

  • Randy Kuehn

  • Jared Campbell
    

5 mins

Program update

Christine Di Bella

• v2.8.1 release last week (incl. spreadsheet importer)

• v3.0 (focused on agents) release candidate in mid-December

• Not accepting code, formal code freeze on December 7th

• New section of wiki for anti-racism initiatives

• Planning group for project to offer free hosting/training for under-represented groups

15 mins

Sub-team and Working Group updates

Integrations

Dallas Pillen

• One meeting since last TAC

• Reviewing list of known integrations

• Planning to send email to mailing list promoting integrations early in 2021

Testing

Rachel Searcy

• Tested Jira and Github issues for new release

• Performed complete system integration test

Development Prioritization

Randy Kuehn

• One meeting in past month

• 28 tickets created, 36 closed in the past month

• 66 created, 92 closed since July

• Only 3 bugs remain to be prioritized

• 89 feature-request tickets awaiting prioritization

• Held discussion with UAC yesterday

Metadata Standards

Elizabeth Roke

• Working on establishing a process for updating metadata mappings in a more automated way.

• Exploring with API team on possibly adding metadata mappings in JSON.

• Improving documentation for non-archivist uses

Tech Docs

Trevor Thornton

• Reorganized tech docs repo for three roles of implementor, evaluators, developers: https://github.com/archivesspace/tech-docs/tree/reorg_by_function

• Compiled list of static site generators to be tested

• Cleaning up documentation for latest release

API Documentation

Trevor Thornton

• Work is happening, low visibility due to volunteer nature and non-TAC membership.

• Expecting contributions soon

15 mins

Discussion: What to do with the migration and metadata mapping documentation?

Elizabeth Roke

10 min

Open mic

5 mins.

Closing notes

Trevor Thornton