Technical Evaluation Process Sub Group

• Slack: tc-evaluation-process

• Meeting Time: Every week on Tuesday, 11AM - 12PM EST

• Zoom Meeting ID: 830 2941 7442

• Zoom Link: https://openlibraryfoundation.zoom.us/j/83029417442?pwd=amdndnBLd1loMlFET1Z3RU8yWEh6UT09

   

Agenda and Minutes

2022-2-22:

Review:

• Previous TC discussions: 2021-10-13 Meeting notes, 2021-10-20 Meeting notes, 2021-10-27 Meeting notes, 2021-11-10 Meeting notes

• Draft Document: Technical decision making process in FOLIO 

• RFC process: https://github.com/folio-org/rfcs

• Development process: https://dev.folio.org/guidelines/development-design-review/

• Tech Lead: Technical Designs and Decisions

• FOLIO Developers: https://dev.folio.org/

Define:

• Scope

• Audience

• Goals

• Approach

2022-03-01

Feedback on RFC process:

• @Charlotte Whitt 

• @Magda Zacharska 

• @Raman Auramau 

Action Item: To recommend that TC should implement RFC process to improve consistency and standardization of decision making. TC should promote the process to stakeholders in the FOLIO community, provide some clarification on when the process is required, solicit feedback, and make adjustment to the process in the next months before WOLFcon.

Discussion: How to design and implement the decision-making process so we can encourage participation and ensure consistency/standardization?

                   This subgroup will lead the effort in soliciting feedback, improving the RFC process, and recommending additional venues for encouraging participation during the RFC piloting.

2022-03-08

Recommendation to TC on piloting RFC process:

Discussion:

• Approaches: pilot RFC process within TC, invite dev team to participate, clarify decision categories that are required to go through RFC process, and explore additional tools.

• Need TC instruction so the subgroup can focus on one or two concrete things:

  • Piloting RFC process

  • Define "substantial change" categories

  • Tools for providing feedback before formal RFC process

2022/03/15

To do list:

• TC-internal: collect current/incoming changes that need TC decision for piloting RFC process

  • Authentication Token Architecture

    • This has been proposed by Steve Ellis on Nov 10, 2021 (see 2021-11-10 Meeting notes), seems there were no actions performed by TC since that time

  • Cross-application Data Sync proposal

    • As a topic of Cross-app data synchronization working group ; the proposal is not ready yet as per Mar 15 - still at least a few weeks of work

  • Decision on Kafka as a formally approved tool on FOLIO

    • Although Kafka has been used for some time in some modules of the platform, the TC has not formally made a decision on this tool

    • Need a driver for this process - anyone from the TC?

  • Decision on the possibility of combining business logic and work with storage in one module

    • Potentially not a very big impact

  • Build backend modules using nodejs

    • Why is this a candidate ?

      • "The addition or removal of conventions, patterns and protocols that are key to the interoperability of Folio components"

      • Gives us a chance to expand community by embracing a wider tech stack

      • No impact to anything that is existing

    • What do we need to do ?

      • Build a simple module similar to the test modules built using Java

      • Run the nodejs test module along side all other modules in a FOLIO cluster

      • Submit the proposal to TC with sufficient document for review

• TC-internal: collect suggestions on tools/process for TC to provide feedback before a formal RFC process

2022/03/29, 2022/04/05

Working on creating the RFC document for Localizing API (Backend) Messages