2021-4-12 Meeting notes

Date

2021-4-12

Attendees

Mark Cooper (Unlicensed)

Alexander Duryee (Deactivated)

Brian Hoffman (Unlicensed)

Steve Majewski (Unlicensed)

Dave Mayo (Unlicensed)

Lora Woodford

Gregory Wiedeman (Unlicensed)

Jessica Crouch

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Agenda:

TimeWhoItemNotes
5 minJessica CrouchWelcome and Announcements
5 min 

Old Business


Everyone

Developer Onboarding wiki pages for review and enhancement - /wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/894533891

Should Core Committers be responsible for the Resource for Developers section of the tech-docs, scavenge what is useful from the developer on-boarding resources and sunset the rest?

Some of it (especially what needs to be current with the latest release) should go to tech docs. Background info should stay and be marked as historical or unmaintained. 

This team should mark the pages they want moved to tech docs.  Once they're in tech docs, Core Committers is interested in their accuracy and maintenance but wouldn't want to be primarily responsible for them. 

Once tech docs is onboard, link to tech docs and say that they have moved to to tech docs. Mark is going to bring this up at the next tech-docs meeting.  

Everyone

Rubocop - Keep this on the agenda but currently no activity 

Rubocop is in the building! Let's close this item.
Dave Mayo (Unlicensed)Anything from the Ad Hoc API group? Any forthcoming PRs?

Lots of things being updated and making forward movement. 

Steve Majewski (Unlicensed)Investigating other database backends other than mysql

We're reliant on people reporting buts but have every intention of supporting. This can be removed.

10 min

New Business/Open Discussion


Lora/Brian/Mark

3.0 update

RC 2 should be out this week. There have been lots of additions to 3.0 since the first RC.  

Ticket:

ANW-429 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Test server:

http://test.archivesspace.org


Everyone

Core Committers Mission

What is this group? Should the group re-evaluate founding documentation and write a charter?

Is reviewing pull requests the most valuable work this group could be doing? Is there other work that would have a large impact that the group would be interested in pursuing? 

Large/ongoing project ideas for this group in lieu of PR reviewing:

  • managing the resources for developers section of the tech docs
  • R&D for large scale changes/updates in the application 
  • In-depth testers of release candidates, including installing the RC and running it with your own data (something that doesn't happen frequently with testing now)
  • Writing tests
  • Investigating other db backends (Steve's never ending old business item)


Pre-Covid/when Laney was on board the team felt more purposeful.  The group has felt adrift. 

This group may not be the best to address reviewing PR. The group is a lot and another commitment.  Is there value in that?

The conversations are valuable and great connections are being made.  Is there a way to increase those valuable conversations. 

There is a desire to have a better idea about the background and design of the application.

A larger discussion about how decisions are made in lots of different ways and places was had. Core Committers doesn't understand where information comes from or how decisions.  This group feels like it is operating in a vacuum/in the dark. 

This group could be the group to form a developer community.  How do we do that without giving an individual invite to people but make them feel empowered on their own? Could this group offer more mentorship/engagement.

The idea of an office hour or quarterly call for this group like the trainers came up. 

Merging PRs was important for the team to accomplish when there was one paid developer for ArchivesSpace.  Now there is less urgency and need for help with that. Some felt reviewing PR was personally valuable to if it isn't a value to ArchivesSpace, it may not be valuable anymore. Though there may be projects or short term need for someone to take point as reviewer.


Everyone

Expanding group participation

One of the intended roles of the group was to be a transparent group within the community with open meetings and playing an active role in the community.  That hasn't played out. 

How can this team be a resource to the community?

How can we identify users in the community that we may not already know?

Are there events or activities this group and spearhead to engage with the community?


3 minEveryone

Closed Pull Requests since February 8, 2021
(is:pr is:closed base:master merged:>2021-03-08)

39 closed


10 minAssignee

Open Pull Requests (is:pr is:open base:master assignee:[name])

Link to open pull requests: https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/pulls


Comments

Mark Cooperhttps://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/pull/2192 

Alexander Duryee (Deactivated)https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/pull/2158

Brian Hoffman (Unlicensed)


Steve Majewski (Unlicensed)


Dave Mayo (Unlicensed)


Gregory Wiedeman (Unlicensed)


Lora Woodfordhttps://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/pull/2173
5 minEveryoneOur next meeting is May 10, 2021 at 2pm ET