2026-02-19 Product Council Agenda and Minutes

5 min

Welcome & Announcements

WOLFCon submission deadline is March 25. So far we only have 8 proposals! Slides on the planning to be presented at CC next Monday.

Getting sponsors, planning reception
Will have an info session for speakers and a page with tips and tricks
PC will talk about what we all want to present on when we meet in 2 weeks

Other updates:
TC: Pilot for reviewing existing modules complete and figuring out how to move forward. Surveying FOLIO developers to find out what they want in possible dev conference.

No updates from CC or RMS this week.

Housekeeping

10 min

None this week

Updates on Active Initiatives

10 min

Release Management & Communication WG update

@Jennifer Eustis

Working on draft newsletter that will go to RMS for review first, then to PC. Also working on release notes.

New Topics

20 min

Data Import for Linked Data Editor New Functionality Overview by @Alvaro Lopez The TC has approved (2/9/2026): https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/TCR-59

@Alvaro Lopez

Presentation slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1S51k2R66qcpsK7bI-rTnCD9fN2fqKUxR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105686150222488070986&rtpof=true&sd=true

Linked data import module (mod-linked-data-import)
Needed for a complete workflow for linked data in FOLIO that includes bulk data import; Data import does not currently support RDF files
UXPROD-4600 approved in TCR-59, for Trillium release
Functionality is not in the UI, only for SysAdmins through permissions and API, although Alvaro said they could take that approach/make that change to include this functionality in the UI with proper permissions (like regular Data Import.)

Feedback: Should be part of GUI pared with permissions
Duplicate detection may be an issue
PC will do a vote offline and get back to Alvaro

Related conversation: Seems like we are moving towards isolated solutions to data import. Currently Data Import = MARC Data Import. SRS was supposed to allow for multiple data formats/be format agnostic. Turns out that we need different storages? If that is true, we should say.
What is the long term vision for Data Import? Still so many problems. Are we impeding progress with the original tool?
What are the advantage of a single, general import app vs several specific ones? Maybe not one size fits all. PC will follow up on this topic.

20 min

Review PC endorsement process: Where we are now, and what is missing (10 min)

@Caitlin Stewart

Discuss Evaluation Process for New FOLIO Functionality

• How can we push this eval process upstream of development?

• Proposal for discussion: PC monitors changes to scope of next two releases on a regular basis and requests POs submit new development for evaluation based on that review.

Note: TC is currently investigating a comprehensive review of existing FOLIO features. Does the PC process need to take TC’s processes for evaluating new or existing functionality into account?

• https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TC/pages/1609367553

• https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TC/pages/5052816

Started discussion but will need to finish at a future meeting.
Framing: What we have in place is working well, but something is missing. Effort to refine existing process, move it up, but not add a new one. Hope to encourage engagement prior to development so PC feedback can be addressed before dev starts. What is the correct mechanism for this? POs are self nominating right now. TC process comes later.
Idea: Monitor scope of future releases and ask POs about them early. There are intersections with what RMS group is doing. This could be a standing agenda item for the PC or create a subgroup.

Planning

5 min

Newsletter topics

10 min

Define agendas for next 2 meetings

• Check Jira board

• Check Calendar

• Seehttps://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/koARJQ