2015-11-16 TAC/UAC Coordinating Committee

Development

 1.4.2 release distributed Oct. 30.

• • • Includes fixes for two bugs and one feature request:  AR-1342, AR-1349, and AR-1350. 

Board meeting, 11/12:  

• Informational meeting largely.
•  Increase size of nominations committee to include a representative for each membership level; revise Bylaws accordingly. 
• Submit proposal for Product Management group

Miscellaneous

• Vendor attendance at: 
  • ISHA (Williamsport, PA), 10/21-23 
• Workshop at Miami University of Ohio, Nov. 16 & 17

Staffing

Nathan Stevens resigned from ArchivesSpace effective Oct. 30. Migration support will be transferred to the TAC Migration sub-team for the time being.

Looking ahead:

 4^th QTR release, preceded by a features freeze on 11/13. 

• Version 1.5
  • Container Management plugin:
    • Community Testing
    • Updating guidelines
    • Video tutorials

New sprint / release cycle for 2016; details yet to be confirmed but

1 sprint every month

1 features release every four months

A features freeze three weeks prior to release

Engage more community testing

Workshops :

• Texas A&M Corpus Christi, 12/14&15 (staff of TAMCC, TAM Kingsville, and possibly, TAM Commerce)
• Tulane University, 1/12&11 (staff of Tulane, LSU, and Nicholls State)
• Case Western Reserve University, 1/28&29 (CWRU staff)
• UC Santa Cruz, 2/22&23 (UCSC staff)

Meeting 11/16, 3:00 p.m. EDT

Subteams are up and running

Workplans are drafted and will be circulated for comment

• • • TAC/UAC members
    • ASpace members generally

Meeting on 11/5, 3:00 p.m. EDT

Reports subteam has a question about continuing use of JasperReports. May submit a new proposal.

There was consensus during the 11/13 FPT meeting to split development prioritization and testing of development into separate subteams.

Splitting Development Prioritization and Testing

Update

What's the process for prioritization?

What's the process for testing?

Discussion resulted in the following agreements:

1) Prioritization should a) follow the current process for the short term (ca. 1/2 year) while b) re-conceptualizing a new process more engaging of members

2) At the outset have the new group focus on stories that have already been voted on but are not yet resolved. This will help to acquaint them better with the prioritization process, especially the several variables that need to be considered.

3) Besides prioritization, have the subteam be responsible for a) member education / engagement in respect to development prioritization and c) communicating prioritization planning and results to the membership.

4) Request to have a meeting with FPT ad hoc group to discuss formation of prioritization and testing subteams

Proposal for Product Management team