2022-01-07 - Sys Ops & Management SIG Agenda and Notes

Date

Attendees

Ingolf Kuss , Tod Olson , Ian Walls , Eric Luhrs , jpnelson , Brandon Tharp , Chris Rutledge , jroot , Hkaplanian 

Goals

Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes

Note taker
Ian (thank you)

Define meeting schedule (for this year)
  • Do we want to meet semi-weekly ? 
    • how much synchronous business do we need to do?  perhaps doing a beginning-of-year planning session or two to get our goals for 2022.
    • make the above our first agenda item, and meet next week
    • we'll meet when Ingolf sends an invite
    • Ingolf will send either an inivtation or a cancellation each Thursday until 2 PM EST.
    • If Ingolf has sent nothing until Thursday 2 PM he is probably on holiday (he will of course announce his holidays before !!!) or ill. In this case, there will be no meeting, unless someone else sends out an invitation.
  • Do we want to reserve the weekly meeting spot and cancel if there are no topics ? 
    • please hold this timeslot weekly for Jan; will cancel if nothing on the schedule
  • Shall calendar events be sent once for the whole year (Jan-Dec) ? 
    • yes. Ingolf will send calendar events for every week of the calendar year (52 events).

Provide input for TC Strategic Objectives : Document library requirements for stability
  • Clearly document the library requirements for stability (Mean Time Between Failures [MTBF], Mean Time To Repair [MTTR])  and secure realization

As in: TC Strategic Objectives TC comments on CC designation of leading council for FOLIO Vision, Strategic Objectives and Initiatives for PC and TC usage - Google Docs

Bullet Point #6 of Strategic Initiatives for near-term.

TC sees this as more of a SysOps issue than a TC issue; this is a Service Level Agreement, rather than a Product feature/goal.  Should this goal be removed, or can it be rewritten in a way that can be better handled the TC?

  • this would be the group to define requirements
  • this is system dependent, both in terms of system resources as well as anticipated system usage
  • performance metrics are separate from MTBF and MTTR
  • what are the minimum goals ?
  • should this requirement just be dropped?
    • it's important, and the TC is best equipped to manage it
    • should probably be rewritten without MTBF and MTTR, but still capturing 'reliability' concept
    • more time may be required to live with FOLIO in production in order to understand reasonable metrics
  • Hosting providers identify issues with hosting FOLIO that require development resources to resolve, and report to TC

Topics for next week
  • What do we want to achieve this year ?
  • platform-minimum (Ian & Jeremy)
    • encourage modularity and clean dependencies (moving towards independently-installable Apps)
    • reduce dependence single-server install method
      • build towards docker-compose or helm deployment without manual intervention
      • have a FOLIO that can be deployed on commodity hardware (for developers)
    • not a point to sell to librarians; audiences: vendors, developers, possibly folks outside the library world ....











Action items

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