Roadmap Meeting November 13 2015 2pm AST

• Chair: Rosie
• Notetaker: David

Per: Schedule

• Attending: Rosie, David, Eric, Donald, Melissa, Jennifer
• Apologies:

Old Business

• Previous meeting notes

• 7.x-2.x GitHub organization

  • This has been created: https://github.com/islandora-claw

• GitHub policies

  • Owners
    • Voted to reduce the number of owners across organizations
    • Vote passed, this has been implemented
  • Merging
    • Vote passed
    • Delay in implementation until committers have a chance to talk about workflows and how best to implement
    • Committers raised some good points: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gzGIkhj0ZiouKWDWSVs0CSbrRS_k2XcrqWrNbOtyifI
    • Related: Need to define roles and responsibilities of roadmap group and other Islandora groups

• 7.x-1.6 release

  • Release has gone out
  • Last release for Nick Ruest as release manager
  • Need to recruit a new release manager for the next 7.x-1.7 release
    • In process - looking to have someone by January
    • Should be a committer
    • Could be useful to have an assistant release manager that can be trained on the release process
    • Nick and Melissa will support in the meantime
  • Target release date for 1.7 is April
  • 7.x-1.7 will likely be the last feature release for 1.x.
    • 7.x-1.x releases will likely continue past 1.7, at least for bug-fixes and security patches

Interest Groups

• Preservation Interest Group (Donald)

  • Held a meetingL https://github.com/islandora-interest-groups/Islandora-Preservation-Interest-Group/blob/master/meetings/06.md
  • Discussed migration utilities and Islandora CLAW
    • Also discussed fixity - Fedora 4 only support SHA-1 as a checksum method for now

• Fedora 4 Interest Group (Nick)

  • Started a weekly tech call
    • Every Wednesday at 12pm AT

• Documentation Interest Group (Melissa)

  • Nothing to report

• Dev Ops Interest Group (Mark Jordan)

  • Nothing to report

• Metadata Interest Group (Jennifer)

  • Held a meeting: https://github.com/islandora-interest-groups/Islandora-Metadata-Interest-Group/blob/master/Meetings/Agenda05.md
  • Plan to work with Hydra Metadata IG
    • Avoid duplicating efforts, especially around common data modelling
    • Sub-groups will fold in with Hydra sub-groups
  • Plan to devote more effort to documentation

• UI Interest Group (Rosie)

  • Nothing to report

• IR Interest Group (Donald)

  • Nothing to report

Islandora Camp updates

• iCampFL

  • Possible date adjustment
  • Conflict with Code4Lib - might move to early May
  • Need to recruit instructors - community is mature enough to recruit more broadly
    • In particular, need developer instructors
    • Could put a call out to the community, but we would need a list of criteria
    • Could post list of instructors online and ask if others would like to be added to the list
    • Instructors could mentor others

• iCampEU

  • One-day event at OR is not going to work
  • No other hosts for 2016

New Business

• Many new CLAs: https://github.com/Islandora/islandora/wiki/Contributor-License-Agreements
• First cCLA from US institution

Roundtable

• Melissa
  • Working on CLAW sprints
  • Lots of new documentation coming in
  • Started paperwork on new member for the Islandora Foundation
• Jennifer
  • Signed on with Biblionation consortium
• Eric
  • Going live in May
  • Working on reverse-engineering Islandora installation to understand how it all works
  • Updating paged-content modules to find complete book rather than each individual page when doing a book search
• Rosie
  • Working on new Islandora modules that should be released within the next month or so
• Donald
  • Launched http://data.upei.ca
  • Working on climate data project
  • Working with 4th year CS students to develop an observation app for mobile and web
• David
  • Fedora Camp at Duke University next week
  • Next camp in California in April

Closing Remarks

• Role of Roadmap Committee

  • Pre-dates Islandora Foundation
  • Share governance amongst stakeholder institutions

• Template for establishing IG: http://islandora.ca/content/establishing-islandora-interest-groups. Could be used for Roadmap Committee

• Current by-laws: http://islandora.ca/if/governance

• "The board may from time to time appoint any committee or other advisory body, as it deems necessary or appropriate for such purposes and, subject to the Act, with such powers as the board shall see fit. Any such committee may formulate its own rules of procedure, subject to such regulations or directions as the board may from time to time make. Any committee member may be removed by resolution of the board of directors."

• Responsibilities include LSAP: http://islandora.ca/developers/lsap

• New document for terms of reference: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cu6gpwd9q7CHOgP5L2NfSGNQ1oy7noig9OkMdDLmRk8

• Next meeting:

  • Chair: Donald
  • Notes: Nick