2020-12-17 TAC meeting notes

5 min

Hello, roll call, etc.

@Trevor Thornton

• Notetaker: @Dallas Pillen

• Next time (going alphabetically): @Elizabeth Roke

5 min

Note on scheduling

@Trevor Thornton

Is this time still OK?

• Possibly too early for those on the west coast. Send Trevor an email if it’s too early and we can try to reschedule.

• We might reassess this prior to the January meeting

5 min

Recent Contributions

@Trevor Thornton

Shoutouts since November!

• Listserv:

  • Andrew Morrison

  • Kevin Schlottmann

  • Rachel Searcy

• Jira tickets:

  • Randy Kuehn (& DevPri!)

• GitHub

  • Testing sub team!

5 mins

Council leadership meeting in February

@Trevor Thornton

Save the date: Wednesday, February 10, 11 am - 12:30 pm EST

• Randy and Trevor have been in touch with counterparts in UAC to discuss council leadership, what’s working with the councils, how could we be more efficient, do we need to be more prescriptive about how many members there are on subteams, etc.

• Expectation that sub-team and working group leads along with chairs and co-chairs, but is open to anyone who is interested, particularly those who are interested in a leadership position at some point in the future or if you have held a leadership position in the past

• Proper invitation going out late December/early January. More info to come.

5 mins

Program update

@Christine Di Bella

• Working on the agents release.

• 2.8.1 recently came out with “everything that is not the agents release” and now all energy is going into the agents release

  • Will not be out before the end of 2020.

• Working with groups including user docs and testing to make sure all the user documentation, supporting info, etc. is up-to-date and that the functionality is working as expected

• Release candidate anticipated sometime in January.

• Webinar has been scheduled – likely a preview of the release and not concurrent with the actual release. Scheduled for January 13th. More info will be in the next update.

• Initiatives put together out of anti-racism discussion. ArchivesSpace Diversity Partnership is the first initiative to receive approval from ArchivesSpace board. Will serve unrepresented communities/institutions (i.e., HBCUs, tribal archives). Application, review, and selection will start early 2021.

15 mins

Sub-team and Working Group updates

Integrations

@Dallas Pillen

• Continue to update information about existing integrations on community resources page (Integrations )

• Drafting email to send out in early 2021

Testing

@Rachel Searcy

• Tested agents expansion

Development Prioritization

@Randy Kuehn

Met December 1, 2020

• Discussed 16 tickets

  • Passed 6

  • Closed 4

  • More info needed 6

• Past 30 days:

  • Created 8

  • Resolved 7

• Bugs:

  • Awaiting Prioritization 0

• Feature requests:

  • Awaiting Prioritizaton 79

• Hoping next year to take a closer look at number of tickets in the queue

• If you are running ArchivesSpace in a Windows production environment, let Randy know via email about any problems you’ve come across that you have/have not resolved.

  • Alicia and Blake have some experience with this

Metadata Standards

@Elizabeth Roke

• Working on testing out a new process for tracking changes to mapping documentation

Tech Docs

@Trevor Thornton

• Re-organized tech_docs repo ready to merge:
  https://github.com/archivesspace/tech-docs/tree/reorg_by_function

  • Waiting for just a little more feedback

• Still planning to do a test implementation of Jekyl for technical documentation site, but it hasn’t happened yet

API Documentation

@Trevor Thornton

Work continues sporadically - nothing to report.

• Hoping to meet in January

0-20 min

Open mic

• Happy holidays, all!

5 mins.

Closing notes

@Trevor Thornton

Next meeting: January 21, 2021

Happy New Year!