2021-02-25 Metadata Management Meeting notes

Agenda/Notes

• Will need to identity how the MM SIG can help Charlotte
• will hope to catch bugs earlier, before bugfest, and this is cheaper to fix
• the whole bugfest race will start again, right after the previous bugfest race
  • so, trying to balance out that rate of bugtesting between bugfests
  • expecting more testcases and more specific and granular testcases then for bugfest would result
  • This new bugtesting process will get more people into the weeds in FOLIO
• Wondered if a specific person would take on a role for a timeframe to help this bugtesting process (not casual, very important)
• from chat (

  We did the writeup of testcases early in the beginning of the ERM project. It was a good way to get familiar with the app and find strange behavior)

• Core functional team capacity
  • diminished starting soon
  • FOLIO needs more developers
  • they do dev for Inventory and many other apps
  • for instance, results enhancements may get slowed
  • Are there ways to contribute needs, is there an easy way to contribute code back to FOLIO?
    • WolfCON topic?
    • it needs to be easier for local devs to contribute CODE to FOLIO (as opposed to just using the local code for local needs, but that could be helpful in a wider community)
    • comment: (the project should not have to rewrite the code all new if a local institution has made something that could be contributed back
    • Attempting to think about the issue of limits in programmer resources
    • There is a survey about this, but this issue just needs to be continually raised
    • some folks are making local things because they have come to expect that the FOLIO contribution plan and portal is not easy or clear
    • Comment: the code and community could be more robust if the local contributions could be added easily
    • But there is always a balance between local staff time for local work and larger FOLIO code contribution (which helps the whole project)
    • Even when institutions come together and make funds available, this process takes a LONG time
    • from chat (It is quicker to develop locally. )
    • folks are getting frustrated
      • we need a faster turn around

Laura E Daniels

Christie Thomas

Conversation continued from last week's meeting

In case it helps, the definition of reference data is: Data that are referred to by other records in the system (see: https://wiki.folio.org/x/XwEuAg and https://wiki.folio.org/x/jjcuAg for more information)

Documentation of current implementation

To Do Today:

Document specific examples for developers: e.g., how we would like to be able to customize reference data (adding, deleting, changing)

Google doc for working draft (Laura will turn this into a wiki page if appropriate)

Felix Hemme

Theodor Tolstoy