2024-06-20 TAC meeting notes

5 min

Attendance ice breaker

Rachel Searcy

🧊 Icebreaker: Favorite summer treat

5 minutes

Program Update

Christine Di Bella

15 min

Sub-team Retrospectives

Development Prioritization:
Brianna McLaughlin

Integrations:
Elizabeth Dunham

Metadata Standards:
Kevin Clair

Technical Documentation:
Jenna Silver

Testing:
Austin Munsell

Please place a link to your Subteam’s Retrospective and include 2-3 significant takeaways.

• Development Prioritization: Dev Pri Retrospective 2023-2024

  • Supported Program Team and Lead Developer on creation of new Jira guidance for the ArchivesSpace Community for the creation of new feature requests and bug reports.

  • Made progress with tickets which had been stuck in ‘Awaiting More Information’ for long periods.

  • It would be helpful to recruit members who use the PUI and/or have developer/technical experience.

• Integrations: 2023-2024 Integrations Retrospective

  • Migrated current content regarding integrations with ArchivesSpace from the Integrations Sub-Team Confluence space to the Awesome ArchivesSpace GitHub site.

  • Appraised and disposed of all content in the Integrations Google Drive.

  • Maintained summary documentation of the Integration sunsetting process.

• Metadata Standards:

• Technical Documentation: 2023-2024 Techdocs Retrospective

  • Restructured Techdocs to be an editorial role.

  • Established various workflows and audits to better manage/maintain technical documentation repositories.

  • Identified areas such as AwesomeArchivesSpace and will provide regular maintenance of that space. Established that TechDocs can provide editorial services to other groups when necessary.

• Testing: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/l/cp/M06YLonk

  • Introductory sessions and ad hoc group work sessions continue to be useful testing support tools

  • Behavior scenarios and end to end testing suite may dramatically change the way testing operates

5 minutes

TAC Business

Rachel Searcy

• 🗳️ Nominating Committee update

• 👏 Thank you to our members cycling off: Elizabeth Dunham, Elizabeth Russey Roke, Jenna Silver, Tom Steele

• 👑 Regine Heberlein has agreed to serve as Vice Chair next year!

• 🔎 Rachel’s retrospective

20 minutes

TAC Retrospective

Rachel Searcy

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BNBxa46bvt5c4NhYdahNXp_yGU3RY8V_08l4lrCdMKc/edit#heading=h.jnyd748vet7j

5 minutes

Term Transitions

Rachel Searcy

Austin Munsell

• What happens next?

  • Take a break!

  • Sub-team leads/vice leads will contribute to one last quarterly report for the term

  • Austin will be in touch to let incoming sub-team leads know about new member assignments

• Next term:

  • It’s never too early to start thinking about next term.

  • Incoming sub-team leads in particular may want to review the Yearly Timeline of Council Activities and Guidelines for ArchivesSpace Council Sub-Teams

  • Orientation for new members will be held sometime in July.

  • Next monthly TAC meeting will be in August, exact date TBD.

  • Next term’s workplan is due in September. You can decide to start work in July or August as long as you keep that deadline in mind.

  • Consider keeping the same meeting times next term, since that slot is already on your schedule.

3 min

Open Mic

2 minutes

Closing Notes

Rachel Searcy

• Another round of applause for Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Jenna, and Tom!

• It’s been a true privilege and pleasure to serve as the Chair. Thank you all for all of your hard work and engagement this past year.

• Best wishes and good vibes to Austin and Regine as Chair and Vice Chair!

🌴 🌞 HAVE A GOOD SUMMER! 🏖️ 🍹