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This exercise was valuable. Having external eyes review and critique the project is healthy. Thankfully the assessment shows that FOLIO is in good shape with opportunities to improve (and with the understanding that functionality at this point is limited; teams are working this).
Key takeaways:
- We feel that having a security audit done is an immediate need.
- The project's technical documentation has some inconsistencies and redundancies - to the point where it is a soft blocker for an organization that is new to the project and trying to engage in development or setup a multi-tenant environment. The TC's discussion around this area led to the idea of commissioning a Technical Writer for the project to help manage and streamline our documentation. We feel this role will be more necessary and beneficial over the next year (likely a contract role)
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- Partially related to this, there is currently a lack of diagnostic capabilities that will prove daunting in a deployment.
- Lastly, we should step back and review some of the technical decisions/implementations related to multi-tenancy and see if we need to strengthen or add flexibility as a result of that analysis.
We will be adding appropriate actions to the JIRA backlog so that they can be prioritized by the POs and community members.
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