2022-03-24 Product Council Meeting Notes

Community Council - Kirstin

• Last update to PC was Feb. 24, 2022 - this update summarizes the CC meetings Feb. 28 + March 14, 2022
• CC continued to work on a letter to the FOLIO members to reflect on the recent situation on resources and FOLIO's state of the art

• Work is nearly finished now
• Letter was translated to Chinese

• Review of the MoUs – second draft: to be sent out in April. It has an adjusted membership fee structure.

New FOLIO members – waiting for MoU’s:

• • Technical University of Munich 
  • CRL (Center for Research Libraries)
  • University Library FAU Nürnberg-Erlangen 

• New  FOLIO website: planned  publication date in mid April
• Report from treasurer:  AWS costs will increase significantly – needs to be balanced by membership fees
• WOLFCon agenda planning – work in progress: volunteers welcome: https://openlibraryfoundation.org/about/wolfcon/upcoming/
• Community Council Meetings are in general open to participants!  Next will be on March 28, 2022

Technical Council 

• TC technical reviews
  • Accepted UI for administering MARC authorities, plugin for "find fund"
  • Translation app: see below
• Subgroups
  • Translations subgroup formed to do architecture review of translation mechanisms:
    • back-end static translation architecture
    • translation of library-customized messages at run-time (Translation app)
    • Separate but related reviews, plan to use RFC process for feedback
  • Controlling AWS costs: AWS costs have increased dramatically, beyond budget, group formed to look at ways to limit costs
  • Technical documentation/New developer onboarding: Some initial review has happened, subgroup forming
  • New Module Tech Evaluation: Refining acceptance criteria and process language to be more clear
  • Technical Evaluation Process: reviving/refining previous RFC process, gathered feedback from devs, will test out with some current FOLIO technical decisions

Product Owners

• POs are focused on Lotus Bugfest and addressing reported issues.  Lotus Release Dashboard: https://issues.folio.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=11847
• PO meetings have focused on 
  • Hotfix workflow updates 
  • Bugfest 
  • Information for POs to define requirements related to data load >  Performance and Scalability requirements overview and checklist
  • Information for POs for how teams can conduct: 1.) Functional data load testing 2.) API performance tests, and 3.) when to submit performance test requests to the PTF team - Types of tests