2016-02-19

5 min

Intro

Actions from previous calls:

All

Thanks to TAC members for recent listserv contributions:

• Answering questions on the listserv
• Code, documentation and bug reporting contributions

Thanks to TAC members who have helped out colleagues and/or contributed to email list discussion:

• Noah Huffman
• Phillip Suda (Unlicensed)
• Former user (Deleted)
• Christopher Prom (Unlicensed)
• Michael Vandermillen (Unlicensed)
• Patrick Galligan (Unlicensed)
• Kari S. (Unlicensed)

And thank you to TAC members who have submitted pull requests:

• Mark Cooper (Unlicensed)
• Max Eckard

Development

 First sprint of 2016 was put in motion at the beginning of February.

•  Prioritization subteam set the backlog
•  Scrum meeting determined the part of the backlog to be addressed
•  Testing subteam has been working on a testing a variety of stories, some left over from the end of 2015
•  Q/A team will do acceptance testing of stories during the week of 2/22

 Planning for the next sprint will start with a meeting of the Priortization subteam on Feb. 23

 Next SCRUM meeting is scheduled for  afternoon of March 7, 4:30-5:30

Workshops

•  UNC Wilmington, Jan. 21-22
•  Case Western Reserve, Jan. 28-29
•  Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine, Feb. 11-12
•  Guggenheim Archives, Feb. 24, Digital Module
•  Atlas/Aeon Staff, Feb. 24 & 25

Governance Board meeting in Chicago on Friday, March 11

• Budget Planning
• Nomination process for FY2016/17

Notes from last meeting: 2016-02-12 Meeting notes

• Have revised their charge - new version posted on Migration sub-team page on wiki today. The new description clarifies the role of the team and calls out more specifically what the the migration subteam can and can't assist with. 

• Former user (Deleted) is testing EAD import errors including several identified by Mark Custer

• Noah Huffman and Former user (Deleted) will be working together to spec up schematron validation feature request so schematron validation part ArchivesSpace - hoping be able to use the work already done by Dave Mayo at Harvard on the EADChecker tool.

• Michael Vandermillen (Unlicensed) noted that Harvard has been using the EADChecker tool for a couple of months now and are pleased to able to make available publicly now.

• Phillip Suda (Unlicensed) and Christopher Prom (Unlicensed) have been working on Archon migration documentation. 

• members of the group are also checking the Archon & AT migrator documentation mentions the migration username & password issue recently raised on the listserv.

• The group is meeting next week
• Focus is on developing / gathering topics for FAQs
• They are considering both dynamic and static solutions for an FAQ - from initial feedback received, the preference seemed to be for a simpler, static solution but they're open to either. Please get in touch with the group if you have any tools / platforms you like.

• Met for the first time in late Jan, used newly set up Rapid Board view / feature for sprint planning
• Will rotate chair duties to try to build up knowledge and share duties
  
  

Testing Process - 2016

• Group met, there were about ~40 tickets farmed out for testing via email

• Esmé Cowles (Unlicensed) gave an impromptu update - noted that they hadn't met but Terry Reese (Unlicensed) had just sent out a Doodle to set up a meeting to discuss code review for NYU location management work

• Rachel Maderik (Unlicensed) gave an impromptu update - they had been corresponding via email, Mark Cooper (Unlicensed) has made some changes to documentation on the wiki re. handling bugs

From Max Eckard:

Here's out notes from last time. We got a few responses to our Google form, so we discussed those, and brainstormed ways to communicate new integrations with the community- that should be happening soon.

This month we're continuing to focus on establishing tiers of integration definitions and examples and identifying ArchivesSpace integration points.

Patrick Galligan (Unlicensed) added that they should be emailing the community soon about the integrations the survey identified.

• Harvard EADChecker validation tool release
• Jekyll static finding aid tool
• NYU undertaking location management work
• Container management discussion

Ann Cooper (Unlicensed) requested that anyone with ideas about an FAQ - particularly those most active on the listservs - please get in touch with her.

Noah Huffman suggested one that would be useful is encouraging those posting links to useful helper scripts on list to also post on the ASpace scripts page. There is a lot of useful work being shared on the list, others may not be aware of it.