2021-07-28 Meeting notes

Continue the discussion from last week of the Tech Council Charter review. Those deliverables are substantial, and probably need to be (a) revisited and (b) better surfaced within the larger FOLIO community.

Marc Johnson

• Define what constitutes Platform vs LSP Base vs Extended Apps on an ongoing basis
  • Raised as part of last weeks review of the TC Charter
  • Could be combined with the Kafka and Min.io topics below
• FOLIO Architectural Blueprint / Roadmap
  • Raised as part of last weeks review of the TC Charter
• Policy / Process for accepting external code submissions
  • Hkaplanian reached out to me last week to ask if the TC had a documented process for this. I don't believe we do.
  • It also came up in the release status meeting that there are external projects that have requested to be included in the official distribution
  • And it came up during the TC's conversation about it's charter
• Accept Kafka into the FOLIO platform
  • Recently I've been asked if Kafka is part of the FOLIO platform and can be used by modules
  • At the moment, Kafka is not an official part of the FOLIO platform and modules can only use it with approval
  • Given the increasing use of Kafka, I propose we discuss making it an official part of the platform that all modules can use
• Accept Min.io into the FOLIO platform
  • Recently I've been asked if min.io is part of the FOLIO platform and can be used by modules
  • At the moment, Min.io / S3 integration is not an official part of the FOLIO platform, yet it is being used by modules
  • Given that folks need a persistent file storage mechanism, I propose we discuss making it an official part of the platform that all modules can use