2017-1-19

5 min

Roll call and actions from previous meetings

All

Thanks to TAC members for recent listserv contributions:

• Listserv
• Code, documentation and bug reporting

Staff

• Tech Lead – Laney McGlohon starts Monday. She will be managing technical elements – code review, code committers, encouraging more contributions, managing relationship with HM
• Program manager – Christine Di Bella is program manager effective now! 
• New staff - reset with groups; need to review staff and determine which staffer would be the best person to work with each group

Roadmap

• The roadmap is a planning and communication tool to help the community know what to expect in terms of future development work and aid in planning for upcoming releases and application upgrades.   A small team created the initial doc, shared with UAC/TAC; positive comments received about transparency and planning thus far. Feedback welcome.

Development

• HM continuing work - refactoring an initial priority
  • Small release in Feb – bug fixes, pull requests, etc. 
  • Major release in March - includes initial reports refactoring; beta PUI
• Requirements work continues

Elections process – Nomination Committee Chair will be decided soon and then nominations process will begin

Governance Board - meeting in March

Membership  - We currently have 315 members. The most recent (i.e. since the last TAC meeting at the end of November) are:

• Concordia Historical Institute (St. Louis)
• Hong Kong Baptist University
• Kennesaw State University (Georgia)
• North Carolina State University
• Rhode Island State Police Museum Foundation
• University of Texas at Austin

Laney will probably give these updates in the future.

• No current lead or chair for the group
• Poll sent out to group to get together with Laney, HM, and group to talk about how the group can continue to work well with Laney and HM
• Please fill out the Doodle poll.

• Focused on trying to create a list of FAQs to extend the technical documentation
• Spent a lot of time reviewing listserv topics
• Put together a call for the beginning of February to do a rundown of all current technical documents and review them
• Question about how user-created technical documentation can get included into official tech. documents
  • Going to be reviewed in upcoming February meeting
• Sally mentioned that it would be useful to discuss document permissions

• Not much to report.
• Met today (1/19) to resume backlog and icebox grooming in support of ongoing HM development work.
• Future prioritization work will primarily address critical and blocking bugs, though feature requests will be considered where appropriate. Generally avoiding feature requests for now.
• Trying to get through all of the open issues in JIRA for the next couple of meetings
• Meeting to specifically address the backlog

Miloche Kottman

Ed Busch

• The sub-team tested completed JIRA issues for the December 8th candidate release of 1.52. The sub-team has been assigned any additional testing since then.
• Testing sub-team has been tasked to do additional testing over the next few weeks
• Got a list of seven issues on 1/18, will finalize the list on 1/25, and will be looking at the list in February

• Most of the work centering around EAD3 support
• Produced a "guiding principles" document for EAD3 and AS
• Created some export mappings from AS to EAD3 (see ArchivesSpace to EAD3 tab). Still in progress. Feedback encouraged!!
• Discussing the EAD3 mappings document in their next call
• Question: Update to data import and export mapping out of date. How can we update this?
• Raised questions for Technical sub-team. If new versions impact import/export map, who updates documentation?

• How to Integrate with ArchivesSpace ideas
• Also working on Why to Integrate with ArchivesSpace document
• Focus on trying to aggregate information on past integrations
• The idea is to clean up larger ideas and post them onto the main wiki site to accompany the other integrations info
• Integrations presentation at SAA

Discussion on draft roadmap