2021-04-13 Meeting Notes

Kiwi pointing exercise

Holly Mistlebauer

Holly sent out the announcement and link for the exercise.  There is one spreadsheet as a working copy for the institutions, then a second list for the person who will fill out the actual ballot by April 30.

There are 58 institutions/vendors  on the ballot now. 

Texas A&M looked at it's R1 features, there are 60-70, will need to narrow down to 10-15.

As institutions work through this, please post questions to the Implementers Slack channel rather than to Holly personally.

The pointers can contact Holly directly about process details.

Marie - are there any obsolete features in the list?

Holly - just apply your points and bring up these kinds of issues, if there's something on the spreadsheet that shouldn't be there, or if something is missing.

Anton has cleaned up old bugs once or twice, we don't think anyone has looked at features that way.  POs may be a little reluctant to delete old features out of caution.

Tod - he thinks the decision was made to close obsolete features with an explanation rather than delete a feature.

Christie - there are some NFRs in the spreadsheet, should institutions be putting points on them? Holly - yes, if the institution needs them, it was the vendors who really wanted to be able to have input on the NFRs.

Christie - what could happen if something gets a lot of points but still doesn't get into Kiwi - the feature is too big, for ex.  Holly - that is still possible, especially since Juniper has such a short timeline - we're six weeks from the freeze.

Christie - Will those points automatically for Lotus?   Holly - if we start working on something in Kiwi we would keep working on it in Lotus.

Tod - we're likely seeing features that run into architectural issues.  Holly - yes, custom item status is a good example.

Holly - ballots close April 30 so we'll probably discuss the results 2nd week of May.

Tom - when we rank something highly and full development can't be done in Kiwi, we shouldn't have to use our points on that feature for the next round.  Holly - once we commit to working on a feature it's unlikely work would stop.

Jay - will features that don't make the cut but are highly ranked, would they be automatically put into next release?  Holly - no, points start over now, but we can discuss again after this first round.

Tod - we should be focusing on what we really need next.

Holly - 20 points maximum for any one feature.

Future topics

Receiving workflow demos deferred.

What can and can't be done with MARC records right now?  There's some imprecise language in conversations.  Will look into inviting Laura Daniels, AMB, and Khalilah.

Holly will attend on Apr 13, 20 & 27 to address questions related to pointing exercise with a retrospective early May

Next Meeting

April 20