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Christopher Spalding discussed with OLF attorneys. They have not previously worked to audit licenses. Offered to do that research for us at an hourly rate. Suggested that they engage with other communities they work with, but Chris asked them not to do so pending further CC discussion.
Lars Iking (UB Mainz, invited to CC meeting by Marko Knepper) works on copyright / IP issues. Happy to offer support by looking at the different licenses, maybe put together a accept/rejects list as basis for work.
TC should reach out to Lars. First to provide lists (tools) we've been working with. Then to discuss more broadly.
Jen has been in email contact with the OLF attorney, and they have said they can give Jen a list, and Jen is looking to set up a meeting time. More on this may be added during the TCR updates.
Jen will continue to be point person on this
Index Data pulling back from some system administration tasks by March 1, 2024.
Discussed scheduling the transition given limited timeframe. Discussed that some of the items are non-technical, and a TAMU person used to help with some of them.
There is no request specifically for the TC to get involved
Developer Advocate
CC passed the job ad asynchronously. Mike taking forward with the rest of the group that will lead the recruiting.
The PD is available in a google doc and a link will be provided
Quick updates only. If we can't find volunteers for groups, we'll need to add the topic to our backlog and address it during dedicated discussion sessions.
Communicating Breaking Changes - Still having trouble finding volunteers. Let's use a Wednesday session - or
Push to January because of the holidays and Ankita Sen will be out in December
Distributed VS Centralized configuration - There was a meeting and RFC PR was created. Next week there will be another checkin
Transaltion Sub Group - No volunteers are forthcoming. The FOLIO Chairs were approached to try to find volunteers
TCR Process Improvements - The Sub Group is working through Matt Weaver 's comments and they are scheduled to address the TCR process around exceptions
DR-000038 - PostgreSQL Upgrade to 16 created by Julian Ladisch . Detailed analysis has been done to check if any of the breaking changes will impact FOLIO. There are a couple of unknowns, where it can't be easily verified if FOLIO is affected.
Today:
DR-000038 has been updated to Postgres 12 for Poppy Quesnelia and Postgres 16 for Ramsons...
DR-000038 has been updated with the Postgres 13, 14, 15 and 16 module test results of the 35 biggest modules that access the database
using modules
, FOLIO has 60 database
using
accessing modules. Not a single issue has been found.
Cypress ^9.1.1: Talk to the people who use it and find out what they would like to do
Update Grails from 5 to 6:
Craig McNally: I would rather make the statement that we need to go to 6; otherwise, the longer we wait and deliberate and evaluate and so forth that means it's less time for developers to do the actual work.
Formalize decisions on the following. Quesnelia is the last chance to upgrade to avoid running unsupported versions:
Postgres 13 → Quesnelia
Grails 6 → Quesnelia
Postgres 15 → Ramsons
Wait until we see the result of Kitfox testing
Attempt to move Quesnelia from DRAFT → ACCEPTED → ACTIVE since the relevant milestones have already passed.
This is in reference to the test container
Taras Spashchenko says this should be completed by the end of this month
We are aiming for upgrading at least to 13 in the Q release and then to 16 in the R release
We have been planning on making a formal decision on this topic during this meeting
Julian expresses objection to this plan, as discussed int he DR, it will create extra work. The proposal is to keep version 12 and to make the Q release compatible to that the upgrade can happen latter on.
This proposal is that the Q release is compatible with versions 12-16, and that DevOps can change versions at anytime prior to the November 2024 loss of support for version 12
Craig McNally points out that this plan seem to be dependent on there being no code changes necessary for this upgrade path
Marc Johnson asked for clarifications, Julian Ladisch clarifies that officially we would support 12 and 16, and that the intermediate version should be implicitly supported.
Ingolf Kuss asks if there are no code changes for version 13 why don't we go to 13 right away
Julian Ladisch points out that there will be test code changes will be needed and that this will require two upgrades, 12-13 and then 13-16
Tod Olson asks for clarification, the proposal will officially support 12 in the Q release, and that 16 will be tested but not officially supported, and then we will move the version as far forward as we can for the R release
Florian Gleixner says that the jump from 12 to 16 is good for sysops because it is fewer database upgrades. He also feels that we need one release that supports multiple versions, and sees benefits to the developers
Marc Johnson mentions that supporting 4 versions seems like a stretch
Julian Ladisch for migration of tenants you need to support multiple versions
Marc Johnson Feels that this DR seems to have a very wide scope
Craig McNally we should make a decision about the Q release and we may need a formal vote. Do we move to 13 in the Q release or leave it 12
The nays carried the vote, which was interpreted as implicitly an approval of the DR
Marc Johnson did not feel that this vote was an implicit approval of the DR
Craig McNally did folks feel that they were voting on the implicit acceptance of the DR
Jeremy Huff did feel that he was voting on the implicit acceptance of the DR
Marc Johnson Dislikes the idea of voting "no" on one thing is the same as voting "yes" on another
The DR was approved and the Q release will support 12 and 16, though it should be noted that to do this, not all features from 16 will be supported
Craig McNally this option will leave it up to the system operators to decide when to upgrade
Tod Olson felt that the vote was to leave the officially supported version for the Q release at 12 and that there would be a separate vote for the R relase
Craig McNally Since two people have raised this concern let's have a separate vote for the R release
The current vote indicates that the Q release will officially support version 12 of Postgres
Marc Johnson if people want to run on a latter version of Postgres then what we officially support they can do that
Tod Olson part of the goal is to minimize the work of the project's operations team, he would like to see an option in place that would allow for bugs in version 13 to be addressed
Julian Ladisch points out that if there was a bug in 13 it would likely be in 16 as well, and would be addressed because of that
Marc Johnson points out that we have not decided to support 16
Craig McNally Vote number 2 is what version we want to run in release R? Maybe we should wait until next week to make this decision
Marc Johnson we are not going to sign off on the approved technology list in the remaining time of the meeting, and he points out that we will support an unsupported version of Postgres for the entirety of the Q release cycle
Florian Gleixner Postgres 16 support could be declared for a specific hotfix release
Time on the meeting, and this will need to be discussed next time (Monday)
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Upcoming Meetings
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- Topic TBD
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- Chairs Meeting (Tentative)
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Zoom Chat
00:28:23 Ingolf Kuss: Could we say: "it (Q) has been tested with postgres 12, but it is recommended to upgrade to 16 (before you install Quesnelia)" ?
00:31:18 Tod Olson: I think that for Q, the recommendation would be for environments to be on PG13, and for R we would go to 16. I think.
00:31:48 Ingolf Kuss: agreed ++
00:32:23 Marc Johnson: Replying to "Could we say: "it (Q…"
Sure, what does tested, supported and recommended mean in this proposal?
00:32:54 Ingolf Kuss: Replying to "Could we say: "it (Q..."
tested = Bugfest tests have run in this environment
00:33:30 Ingolf Kuss: Replying to "Could we say: "it (Q..."
recommended = Operators should use this to minimize risk / reduce amount of work
00:34:13 Ingolf Kuss: Replying to "Could we say: "it (Q..."
supported: bugfixes / patches will be available for this release
00:49:28 Florian Gleixner: Vote 2: What Version shall be supported for Ramsons: 16 check, other X
Vote 3: Upgrade scenario: Shall Quesnelia support a Upgrade to the Ramsons Postgres Version, and therefore support Postgres 12 and a newer Version?
00:57:28 Florian Gleixner: Postgres 16 support for Quesnelia can be declared for a later hotfix release and not for GA, if this would be a problem. Latest date would be GA of Ransoms, better some time before.
01:01:15 Owen Stephens: It feels like understanding those sys ops processes might be advantageous to understand the impact of some of these decisions - Florian’s point here feels very important
01:01:24 Marc Johnson: Reacted to "It feels like unders…" with 💯
01:02:03 Tod Olson: Thank you for the comments Florian, I see what you're getting at. Adding PG16 to Q in a GA does not force sites to upgrade, but _allows_ them to upgrade in place.
01:02:17 Ingolf Kuss: it is not such a big Problem if you have a downtime during an upgrade (but Maybe I am in the minority with this practice)
01:02:49 Florian Gleixner: Upgrading 40 teanats takes some time
Topic Backlog
Decision Log Review
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Review decisions which are in progress. Can any of them be accepted? rejected?
Translation Subgroup
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Since we're having trouble finding volunteers for a subgroup, maybe we can make progress during a dedicated discussion session?
Communicating Breaking Changes
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Since we're having trouble finding volunteers for a subgroup, maybe we can make progress during a dedicated discussion session?
Officially Supported Technologies - Upkeep
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Previous Notes:
A workflow for these pages. When do they transition from one state to another. Do we even need statuses at all ?
Stripes architecture group has some questions about the Poppy release.
Zak: A handshake between developers, dev ops and the TC. Who makes that decision and how do we pass along that knowledge ? E.g. changes in Nodes and in the UI boxes. How to communicate this ? We have a large number of teams, all have to be aware of it. TC should be alerted that changes are happening. We have a couple of dedicated channels for that. Most dev ops have subscribed to these channels. How can dev ops folk raise issues to the next level of community awareness ? There hasn't been a specific piece of TC to move that along.
Craig: There is a fourth group, "Capacity Planning" or "Release Planning". Slack is the de facto communication channel. There are no objections to using Slack. An example is the Java 17 RFC.
Craig: The TC gets it on the agenda and we will discuss it. The TC gets the final say.
Marc Johnson: We shouldn’t use the DevOps Channel. The dev ops folks have made it clear that it should only be used for support requests made to them.
Jakub: Our responsibility is to avoid piling up technical debt.
Marc: Some set of people have to actually make the call. Who lowers the chequered flag ?
Craig: It needs to ultimately come to the TC at least for awareness. There is a missing piece. Capacity Planning needs to provide input here.
Marc: Stakeholders / Capacity Planning could make that decision. Who makes the decision ? Is it the government or is it some parts of the body ?
Marc: the developers community, the dev ops community and sys ops are involved. For example the Spring Framework discussion or the Java 17 discussion. But it was completely separate to the TC decision. It is a coordination and communication effort.
Marc: Maybe the TC needs to let go that they are the decision makers so that they be a moderating group.
Jakub: I agree with Marc. But we are not a system operating group. Dependency management should be in the responsibility of Release management. There are structures in the project for that.
Jason Root: I agree with Jakub and with Marc also. Policies should drive operational/release/support aspects of Folio.
Jason Root: If the idea of “support” is that frameworks are supported, then of course the project should meet that.
Marc Johnson Some group needs to inform OleksAii when a relevant policy event occurs. These documents effectively ARE the manifestation of the policy.
Craig: This is a topic for the next Monday session.
Craig to see if Oleksii Petrenko could join us to discuss the process for updating the officially supported technologies lists.
Dev Documentation Visibility
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Possible topic/activity for a Wednesday session:
Discuss/brainstorm:
Ideas for the type of developer-facing documentation we think would be most helpful for new developers
How we might bring existing documentation up to date and ensure it's consistent