Date 17 Sep 2021
Attendees Ingolf Kuss James Fuller jpnelson Axel Dörrer Anton Emelianov (Deactivated) Brandon Tharp Hkaplanian Chris Rutledge Ian Walls jroot Florian Gleixner
Meeting Link Goal Discussion items Time Item Who Notes 30 FOLIO infrastructure / NFRs What are we going to do with the debt?
Harry is concerned about the PC and their perspectiveThe App Store model comes with some communication problems, some people are concerned that they will loose support for key features Roadmap document lists features Harry is trying to balance features with these NFRs that can directly impact our ability to expand the user base and developer baseHow to we get NFRs onto the roadmap Jason wants a way to surface NFRs to a roadmap level. James would like to see a short paragraph that explains the desired arrangement of Code and Functionality that does not include the phrase "App Store" Anton is interested in combining modules back together to reduce the total number of modulesCombine Storage and Business Logic modules: Lots of support; Get rid of the storage modulesShould improve performance by reducing HTTP calls Later combining schemas could further improve this Brandon mention that there is some orchestration in OKAPI that can create issuesBrandon would like to see this removed, so that modules can be upgraded without running directly into OKAPI OKAPI shouldn't do any kind of orchestration; We want a leaner OKAPI Brandon wants this to a pure API gateway and not let it deploy containersAnton agrees and is interested in replacing OKAPI with a more standard libraryFolks are interested in this, but it is a lot of work and will take significant time to unwind Ian has looked at other API gateways and is interested in the Platform Components coming more off-the-shelfIan advocates for NOT asking for permission for this kind of change. 30 FOLIO Integrations Jason, Axel, and Florian where all at the Integrations meeting on Tuesday Jason is consolidating and cleaning up spreadsheets on integrations We are still seeking feedback, it should be easier to collect once the spreadsheet is readyIngolf is directly soliciting feedback until Tuesday 9/21 at 10am EST, particularly about Pain Points What are the next stepsTalk to Implementers Group and then try to get onto the RoadmapWho is on the Roadmap group and how often to they meet? It was created out of the PC
Action items Type your task here, using "@" to assign to a user and "//" to select a due date James Fuller Will work on a paragraph that describes the packing of code and functionality in FOLIO that does NOT use the App Store analogyGet NFRs on the Roadmap