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Coordinating Meeting July 2 2021 11:30 am AST

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  • Chair: Bryan Brown Danny Lamb
  • Notes: Drew Heles

Per: Schedule

Attending:

  • Danny Lamb
  • Mirko Hanke
  • Mike Kemezis
  • Don Richards
  • Bethany Seeger
  • Drew Heles

Agenda

Old Business

New Business

Danny leaving IF for BD. Less people work and more work-work. Is a happy move.

What is role of ICC in general and specifically in regards to this change?

  • someone needs to do the people-work
    • should be sharing & doing events planning
    • in past, this meant calling caterers, etc.
    • post pandemic, there's an open question
  • improve feedback loops with users
    • more feedback, review, info back to committers
    • requirements-gathering
    • discussion for future agenda?
  • loss of tech lead is a concern
    • keep cohesion between committers
    • usually works itself out
  • maybe it's time to engage in a new planning process
  • how to get volunteers to do stuff as a "meritocracy of developers"
  • would prefer more requirements coming from community
  • some things not within committers discresion
  • role of TAG, ICC, & Board
    • ICC provides broad direction
    • "What Islandora is"
    • ICC allowed to make its own path
    • don't wait for Board to define terms
    • maybe review terms and put them into practice (instead of redefining)
  • how to move code into core
    • suggestion: suspend rule that PRs can't be merged by a member of the same org
      • worth taking about. others have heard this concern
      • lifting that safeguard means we need to put other safeguards in place
      • don't want to railroad changes
      • any rule will have somebody pushing limits
      • tech lead role is to prevent problems
      • there is history behind this rule
      • balance is needed
      • put on agenda? ask TAG to take it up as well?
      • w/o tech lead, removing this rule may be problematic
        • if it's everybody's job, it's no one's job
        • this is critical time for a lot of folks (due to I8 migrations, etc)
        • change is good, but also scary
      • committers themselves control the process
    • Danny "exit interview?"
      • look at what other platforms like Samvera does well & try to pay attention to it
      • maybe less technical focus while no tech lead in place
      • how is Islandora similar & different from other similar platforms?
      • (admin) theme change is easy. improving usability is harder, but important
        • where to find stuff can be hard
        • make more approachable
      • user group research project?
        • hardest group to wrangle
      • what if we made process for contributing (non-code e.g. views, etc) easier?
        • might increase involvement
        • need better understanding of how to share. in I8, this is not entirely clear (module, theme, view, config, docs)
        • documentation group talking about this as well
    • all of the org structures happened organically
      • maybe we can streamline
      • this conversation beeds to go beyond just this group
    • how do committers address issues in between tech leads?
    • need to define role, process, or support structures for handling interperson issues while IF works to fill positions
    • request that Danny stay on to facilitate the transition
      • exit interview
      • describe soft-skills, as well as logins, etc.
      • help figure out interim support structures

Interest Group Updates

  • Metadata IG (Rosie)
    • no one from that meeting is in attendance
  • IR interest group (Bryan or Don)
    • have not met since last ICC meeting
  • ISLE Interest Group (Danny or Bryan)
    • fixing ISLE environment problems
    • another ISLE 7 release
  • Documentation Interest Group (David, Melissa, or Mirko)
    • have also not met since last ICC meeting
    • transitioning to monthly

Islandora 8

  • testing sprint
    • few takers
    • got more at tech meeting
    • about 1/2 way through
    • the one issue discovered already had a PR
    • things are looking really smooth
  • next Islandora version not number - moving to semantic versioning
  • next release end of July

Islandora Events

  • Summer of Islandora #1 this week
  • need to plan SoI #2
    • a web presence or wiki entry might be useful
      • aside: Islandora could improve communications / marketing
    • proposed: session on how to get involved and contribute (non-code)
      • structure conversation
      • panel discussion?
        • representatives from IGs
    • level 201 presentations
      • Bethany share access controls solution
      • modeling?
      • views
        • show & tell
        • how-to view

Round Table

(out of time)

Next meeting July 16

  • Chair: Drew Heles
  • Notes: Amy Blau

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