2022-10-11 TAC meeting notes

2 min

Welcome

@Valerie Addonizio

5 min

Program Update

@Christine Di Bella

10 min

Advanced training for TAC

@Valerie Addonizio

Two part discussion. First, discuss training needs.

Second, live survey for relative levels of interest.

Let’s talk about training:

• GitHub and being a maintainer;

• Advanced Jira ticket filtering and searching;

• Spinning up your own test servers (Docker);

• ASpace architecture;

• Ruby

• ?

20 min

Sub-team Updates

Development Prioritization:
@Randy Kuehn

Integrations:
@Sarit Hand

Metadata Standards:
@Regine Heberlein

Technical Documentation:
@Rachel Searcy

Testing:
@Austin Munsell

Valerie’s fault for such a late agenda, apologies!

• Development Prioritization:

  • Met twice (Sep 6 and Oct 4)

  • Put together workplan

  • Reviewed 23 tickets (13 passed for development, 1 passed for community development, 3 closed, 6 awaiting more information)

• Integrations:

• Metadata Standards:

  • received an orientation of the EAD importer from Brian Hoffman

  • rescheduled our meeting so some of us can sit in on the DevPri meetings

  • sent an email to the community to gather information about current EAD-CPF use

  • have been discussing the need for a Data Model Documentation Task Force

• Technical Documentation:

  • Merged pull requests and closed (some) open issues

  • Clarified history of Github repository as documentation platform

  • Reached out to User Docs for potential collaboration/info-sharing

  • Will be reassessing current organizational structure of documentation

  • Will be monitoring and actively participating in email listservs more frequently

• Testing:

  • Completed an introductory session with new members (these will continue ad hoc throughout the year when there are tickets/new release candidates to test)

  • Completed testing for latest round of Jira tickets

5 min

Training Survey

@Valerie Addonizio

Survey:

https://forms.gle/f4kEtcqKamqHVa5h6

10 min

Info Pathways

@Valerie Addonizio

In the recent joint meeting we discussed the potential for teams to pass information back and forth not just this term or on specific projects, but as a big-picture exploration of how and whether info should pass between councils and teams on a more permanent basis. This flowchart was drafted in that spirit:

Council Information Pathways

2 min

Future meetings

@Valerie Addonizio

November - Testing

December - Metadata

January - No meeting

February - Joint meeting with UAC (DevPri)

March - Integrations

April - Tech Docs

Subteam Discussion sessions. You may choose from these topics:

• Something relevant to your subteam’s workplan, like workshopping an idea, getting feedback on a decision

• Suggestions for TAC documentation/training

• Simply to tell us what your subteam does! Walk us through a recent agenda, talk about a recent decision, peel back the curtain on your subteam!

5 min

Open Mic

5 min

Closing Notes

@Valerie Addonizio

November - Testing

We will have a meeting in December, but we will NOT have a meeting in January.