2015-12-21

Date

Monday, December 21

3:00 - 4:00 PM ET, 2:00 - 3:00 PM CT, 1:00 - 2:00 PM MT, Noon - 1:00 PM PT

Call-in info is:

Number: 888-354-0094

Access code: 731627

Notetaker:  Scott Hanrath (Unlicensed)

Attendees:  

Not able to attend:

Goals:

  • Sub-teams reports on work plan progress
  • Update from Program Manager on program activities 
  • provide opportunity for questions / feedback

 

Agenda items:

Time

Item

Who

Notes

5 min

Intro

Actions from previous calls:

    • Sub-teams to email workplans to TAC for feedback and simultaneously or thereafter to the ASpace User listserv
    • (from email) Sub-teams to review next from Hackathon and indicate interest in contributing to work where relevant or places where sub-teams have related work already planned

All

  • Most sub-teams shared workplans with TAC. 
  • Sub-teams are encouraged to send workplans to the user listerv as they are comfortable doing so.
5 min

Thanks to TAC members for recent listserv contributions:

  • Answering questions on the listserv
  • Code, documentation and bug reporting contributions
Sally Vermaaten (Unlicensed)

Sally thanked:

5 minProgram updateBradleyW (Unlicensed)Spring 18 is complete.  Sprint 19 has been delivered and is being testing:
  • moved reports to background job to reduce timeouts
  • container management

Next release date is uncertain, but aiming for late January.  Will include updates to EAD importer and exporter.

Public User Interface group has reached some milestones. Cherry Hill handed off wireframes and style guides and will hand off design principles and final report on Dec 21.  Discussions around development work now that wireframes are in.

Added 2 registered service providers:  Keystone Library Network (PA) and Atlas Systems.  Atlas has objectives to develop a plugin to integrate Aeon and ArchivesSpace, provide hosting, and provide training materials.  Added about a dozen new members (many from PA as part of PA).  Members and service providers are listed at http://www.archivesspace.org/members

Workshops:  Miami U (Ohio) and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.  Eight Workshops scheduled for January to March.

Migrated some of the Amazon cloud services infrastructure for sandbox and training resources.
20 minMigration sub-team updateNoah Huffman (Deactivated)

The Migration Sub-team has been working on some immediate needs, as well as establishing a work plan for the coming year. The draft work plan is available on the wiki (https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/display/AC/Work+Plan+-+2015-2016), and includes work in:

  • Developing pre-processing and validation tools for imports
  • Reviewing outstanding JIRA issues related to import/export
  • Testing the Archon migration scripts
  • Reviewing data import/export mapping documents for accuracy
  • Planning for EAD3 import/export
  • Planning for EAC-CPF import/export

We have also discussed the impact of Nathan Steven's departure, and how the sub-team can assist with community support of migration issues.

Minutes for the group are available on the wiki, and questions can be directed to Noah Huffman.

Technical documentation sub-team updateAnn Cooper (Unlicensed)Sub-team with meet in early January to begin work on an FAQ for technical documentation questions.  Will be reviewing listserv questions.  Input on potential areas of focus is welcome.
Features Prioritization & Testing sub-team updateKari S. (Unlicensed)Meeting last week to discuss separating feature prioritization and testing.  Focus was on how a separate feature prioritization group would function in new development model with month-long sprints.  Notes: Separating Prioritization and Testing: Discussion notes
Committer Oversight sub-team updateTerry Reese (Unlicensed)Based on Hackathon outcomes, Terry Reese (Unlicensed) is working on drafting criteria for community to designate a group of core committers (around 6-8).  Talking with DSpace, Hyrda, and OLE communities about their criteria.  Planning to share soon with committer oversight group and then TAC.
Bug Wrangler sub-team updateMark CooperMark Cooper (Unlicensed) and Rachel Maderik (Unlicensed) have volunteered to  periodically send out a list of open bugs to the community (as suggested at the Hackthon) to make it easier for developers to see what some of the unresolved bugs with ArchivesSpace are.
Integrations sub-team updateMax EckardSub-team is ferreting out tiers of integrations and looking at ways to create a public list of integrations on the Wiki (with information about objectives, status, timelines, who is involved, URLs, etc.).  Requests for information about integrations will be sent to the communicty in January.
20 min

Discussion re. prioritization & testing sub-team split / New Development Process for 2016

All

Sally walked TAC through the Draft updated prioritization & testing process and groups

5 minGeneral announcements - open floorAll

 

-Next meeting time - tbc as our normal time is on a holiday - Sally to send out Doodle for new date / time - Rachel Maderik (Unlicensed)  on deck for notes 

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