2024-5-23 Meeting Agenda and Notes

Date

May 23, 2024

Participants

@Jenna Silver
@Austin Munsell
@Alexander Duryee
@Bonnie Gordon
@Michelle Paquette
@Blake Carver

Goals

Review updated charge.
Discuss how to support next group of TechDocs members.
Discuss division of end of year documentation.

New charge text

Maintain ArchivesSpace technical documentation in tech-docs Github repository

When new versions of ArchivesSpace are released, review release notes, providing edits/suggested changes to developers.
Identify documentation maintained by other sub-teams, link to it as appropriate, and avoid duplication of effort.
Perform yearly surveys of old documentation to provide edits/updates.
Review community-submitted issues and pull requests to the repository.
Review and manage AwesomeArchivesSpace.

Solicit feedback and contributions from the community

Encourage ArchivesSpace community to submit issues regarding documentation directly to the tech-docs repository or contact sub-team members via email to suggest improvements.
Monitor listserv for issues for which further documentation would be helpful, and create the appropriate documentation, or at least a stub for future documentation, in a timely fashion.

Perform outreach and make ArchivesSpace community aware of TechDocs

Promote TechDocs work and facilitate broad community knowledge by linking to relevant portions of documentation in listserv responses and other communications.
Suggest the inclusion of relevant links to TechDocs within documentation maintained by other sub-teams.

Helpful Links

Technical Documentation TechDocs landing page.

2022-2023 TechDocs Retrospective Last year's retrospective.

2024-04-25 Meeting Agenda and notes Last month’s meeting notes.

Discussion topics

Time	Item	Presenter	Notes

Time	Item	Presenter	Notes
10 Minutes	Review updated charge	Jenna	Review and provide edits to the charge. All members agreed with the new charge.
15 Minutes	Brainstorm how to support new TechDocs members	Group	Discuss how we can prepare next group of TechDocs members for their terms. Ideas: create a beginning of term training, review/train on all repository sites TechDocs manages, etc.? Members agreed a focus on training would be helpful, walkthrough of actual tasks
20 Minutes	End of year documentation	Group	Begin drafting end of year retrospective. Alex asked where things stood with the URL review (links within GitHub). Blake believes there was something standing in the way and will look into it. Michelle asked about the pull requests that are still in the GitHub, forgetting that we talked about them already at our February meeting. They’re waiting to be approved because they’re about things that aren’t live in ASpace. The fact that many members forgot about this means that perhaps we need to work on documentation for pull requests, reviewing them in meetings - restructure how this works. Have we hit our cap on community feedback? Perhaps focus more on being conscious of what is being asked on the listserv and whether we can offer either a) a pointer to documentation or b) a suggestion to put in a pull request when we have documentation. If we do not finish, divide up labor and set deadline for when it needs to be completed.
5 Minutes	Wrap/Questions	Group	Questions or concerns.

Action items

Begin drafting retrospective

Decisions

@Bonnie Gordon will be taking on the Lead role for the next year