Tech Call Agenda - 2025-09-29

[cdils]

Meeting Purpose: Deep-dive, hands-on technical work & implementation for FAIR.

Audience: All technical contributors (not just committee members).

Please add agenda items as comments below and up-vote on the items you'd like to discuss.

Meeting details

• Meeting is September 29, 2025 – 17:30 UTC (see it in your time zone)
• Link to Meeting Calendar

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[cdils]

Retrospective on the 1.0 release from a tech perspective:

• What went well?
• What can we do better?

[cdils]

From @toderash re: what the 6 week dev cycle could look like:

• 3 weeks to release alpha
• 1 week to release beta
• 1 week to RC
• 1 week of testing & release plan
  = Release at 6 weeks.

[cdils]

Noting the need for a staging site for fair.pm (issue is on server repo -> fairpm/server#43)

[toderash]

Discussion continues on #92

[cdils]

Discuss/add to #92 (Develop Comprehensive Release Checklist/Sequence/Plan)

[cdils]

FYI: We have a loose Github Management Process in place to follow for future releases.

[toderash]

Completing / Enhancing Tech Independence:
(1) GlotMess GlotPress & mirroring translations
(2) Block Pattern library: simple mirror, or replacement platform?
(3) Extending alt-avatar support for other sources
(4) Others?

[toderash]

Tracking & supporting recently-added initiatives
(1) WP-CLI extension (Colin)
(2) AspireHub (Nameth)
(3) MU-implementation of FAIR (SKC & others)