2019-02-27 Meeting notes

Review teams' Definitions of Done and next steps for the TC's template. Feedback - Looks good. On the surface - may look a little weird that there are so many DoDs but should be expected because of the variance of teams and their relative maturity. Need to revisit periodically. Look for opportunities to improve. Some infrastructure is needed to allow some aspects to get further along. Could look to take advantage of Confluence functionality to allow teams to include common/mandatory items. For Mandatory items teams should come back to TC to discuss why they aren't able to meet the Mandatory requirements. We should note that when open source participatory teams are involved, they may not choose to abide by our "Mandatory" requirements. Need to decide/document how to deal with these situations. Revisit DoD progress and state quarterly.

 The extensive debate in UUIN-369 and UXPROD-884 - to avoid having the UUIDs and HRIDs exist in a kind of limbo with an undefined relationship and individual users and developers using the willy-nilly, it would be good for the TC to clearly articulate best practices in the use and consumption of these IDs. At stake here is FOLIO’s ‘feel’ as a system with some consistency of behaviors and expectations across modules.

I would like TC members to provide their perspective and recommendations on best practices here.

Notes:

Charlotte shared background and indicated no one suggests HRID be mutable... that aspect of this question was stricken. SMEs prefer the HRID to go into the 001 field - the UUID is long and messy. Each App that creates an Inventory record has implemented a number sequencer which will be used to populate the HRID.

Tod shared some background on current practices.

Vince: We need to have universal unique identifiers (UUID) but also have a need for human readable (HRID). Determining how these relate is what is under discussion. How these map to MARC fields are a different topic and not necessarily one for the TC to be involved in. UUIDs are to be used as what is referenced within FOLIO - not HRIDs.