2025-11-11 Release Management & Commmunication WG meeting notes

 Date

Nov 11, 2025

 Participants

• @Autumn Faulkner @Charlotte Whitt @Jennifer Eustis @Tod Olson @Thomas Trutt

• Regrets: @Jennifer Eustis

Agenda

• Finalize charter

  • Google doc draft of charter

  • Should we extend the scope of the group beyond just PC involvement with RMS, to include RMS operations and structure more generally?

    • Group discussions note unfair expectations for the release manager and product owner/manager roles; de facto executive or decision-making roles have been formed in the community without a lot of intentionality, and often as a result of responsibility creep

    • Discussion touched on the question of what constitutes the FOLIO product? What is the core set of modules?

      • No one aside from RMS is discussing what modules are always included in a release

      • Technical core vs. functional core

        • Technical is easier to identify; functional can be a lot more subjective

        • CDDF proposes focusing on functional modules that community is committed to maintaining

      • Changes expected to bundling/delivery of UI modules could be a factor in how we approach the idea of the core product

      • Bugfest approaches are implicated too

  • Agreement from the group that this could be a useful investigation to pursue

    • Koha model of 3 managing roles (release manager, document manager, and ??) is one interesting model

• Phase 1 planning

  • Outline the next few steps

• Sunflower CSP #2 digest

  • Draft a brief, non-technical summary of the CSP’s updates

  • CSP #2 dashboard

• Incomplete action items from last meeting

  Touch base with Oleksii as a first step to get work started? @Jeremy Huff

  Check with CC about posting to main page of folio.org

• Action items

• Next meeting

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