2023-06-14 Meeting notes

2023-06-14 Meeting notes

Date

Jun 14, 2023

Attendees 

  • @Craig McNally (chair)

  • @Ankita Sen 

  • @Florian Gleixner 

  • @Ian Walls

  • @Ingolf Kuss

  • @Jakub Skoczen 

  • @jroot (Unlicensed) (proxy for @Jeremy Huff)

  • @Jenn Colt

  • @Marc Johnson 

  • @Owen Stephens 

  • @Olamide Kolawole

  • @Raman Auramau

  • @Zak_Burke 

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  • @Taras Spashchenko  

  • @Tod Olson 

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  • @VBar 

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Discussion items

Time

Item

Who

Notes

Time

Item

Who

Notes

1 min

Scribe

All

@Jeremy Huff is next, followed by @Marc Johnson 

  • @Marc Johnson to take notes today based on the recording

5-10 min

TCR Board Review

All

  • https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/TCR-27

  • @Zak_Burke advised that the evaluation of ui-service-interaction should be ready for TC review next week. So far, only some accessibility limitations have been encountered. @Maccabee Levine is shadowing this review

5 min

Liaison Updates

@Maccabee Levine / @Tod Olson / @Jakub Skoczen 

  • Updates from CC: 

    • @Maccabee Levine via slack:

There was a brief discussion about the funding proposals from TC and PC;  they were initially focused only on the joint TC/PC Community Developer Advocate proposal which Alexis, Owen and I recently updated, but I reminded them there were several others as well submitted by the two councils.  CC has not made progress on defining a process to consider them but recommitted to doing so before the next meeting.  And it sounds like they will meet at WOLFcon to consider the proposals specifically.

  • Updates from the PC @Tod Olson :

    • List App: EBSCO heard from a lot of former Innovative Interfaces customers that they really wanted actionable lists, the List App is being developed, to be offered to the community. Technical presentation to be made to the TC. Expect review requests to PC and TC

    • WOLFcon planning update: 56 proposals as of meeting time, room for some more.

    • Tomorrow: Browser support statement will be a topic in PC. Have already introduced in Slack, expect PC to discuss and vote tomorrow.

  • Updates from CSP group:

    • Review of various issues (mostly security) for inclusion in upcoming service packs

1 min

WOLFcon Planning

@Maccabee Levine/ @Craig McNally 

  • Call out for ideas for WOLFcon sessions is out.

  • Deadline for submission has been extended to Jun 19, 2023 

  • A shoulder session request has been submitted for Friday Aug 25, 2023 (morning)

    • Attendance is unsure at this point

  • Possibly Cross-council shoulder session(s) Friday Aug 25, 2023 (afternoon)

    • Was discussed at Folio Chairs meeting, specifics/details are TBD

5-10 min

Technical Council Sub Groups Updates

All

  • @jroot (Unlicensed) advised that there was no meeting for the breaking changes sub-group yesterday, however an asynchronous discussion has begun for the remaining public review comments

  • @jroot (Unlicensed) advised that @Jeremy Huff is working on the scripting for the presentation to be discussed at the meeting tomorrow

  • @Florian Gleixner advised that the distributed configuration group is still trying to agree on a regular meeting time

  • @Ankita Sen @Craig McNally @Tod Olson have volunteered to participate in the architectural review. @Marc Johnson volunteered to be the backup content leader and @Jenn Colt volunteered to be the admin leader

1 min

Java 17 Discussion

All

  • Leaving this on the agenda as a reminder to update the DR once a decision has been made about the P/Q release(s)

  • @Marc Johnson advised that it has been decided that the Poppy release has been deferred to the fall of 2023, making it the name of the next release. And that Oleksii is already putting together an initiate for upgrading modules to Java 17

  • @Craig McNally to update the decision record to apply to the Poppy release

10-20 min

RFCs

All

  • Last meeting

    • Cleanup effort required:

      • filename prefix - all RFCs currently use 0000- defeating the purpose

      • conflicting process documentation between the wiki and github...

      • renaming can be done by RFC submitters, leave comments on the RFCs that still need it

      • Jenn will take on the documentation clean up, Work has started, some discussion in tc-internal slack.


  • @Craig McNally asked about using a Monday meeting for the retrospective instead of a doodle poll

    • Scheduled for Jul 10, 2023 

  • @Craig McNally to create a retro board and share a link so we can start adding cards

    • @Olamide Kolawole agreed to start populating this before the meeting

  • @Craig McNally asked about status of the DR

  • @Craig McNally Suggested that we should include a topic for how we indicate that the RFC has been approved/accepted and for how we approve the decision record

5 min

Upcoming Meetings

@Craig McNally 

  • Jun 12, 2023 Continuation of our conversation about Cross-tenant/consortia and tenant checks.  Calendar already updated. @Olamide Kolawole explained some details in last meeting.

    • Cancelled due to scheduling confusion

  • Jun 19, 2023 is holiday for several members - probably won't meet

  • Jun 26, 2023 Continuation of our conversation about Cross-tenant/consortia and tenant checks.  Calendar already updated. @Olamide Kolawole explained some details in last meeting

    • I need someone to run this meeting as I'll be out on vacation.

  • Jul 3, 2023 Holiday for many

  • Jul 10, 2023 RFC Retrospective

5 min

Platform Definition

@Craig McNally 

  • @Craig McNally advised that the topic of definitions came up at the Chair's meeting. He advised them that the TC agreed to defer that until after elections and would be considered as part of the upcoming architectural review sub-group

  • @Marc Johnson Asked if it could be worth having the first iteration of the architectural review be about defining the platform term, especially given we have external impetus for this and we are trying to keep groups short lived?

    • @Craig McNally suggested the group discuss that as their first order of business

Time permitting

Officially Supported Technologies - Upkeep

All

  • @Marc Johnson suggested that he didn't understand what the term active meant in the statuses defined in the document

    • @Craig McNally suggested that it meant the actively supported release and asked if Poppy should be marked as active in that case?

    • @Marc Johnson stated that this depends upon our use of the term active. And advised that we can have up to 4 releases being actively supported or in development at any one time

    • @Craig McNally suggested the reasoning for the use of active was to include changes made in service packs. And Asked if it made sense to include an additional status?

    • @Marc Johnson suggested using Supported for the releases available for production use and supported and active for the one open for module reviews by the TC, however that leaves a gap for the release that is past the review threshold but not yet out for production

    • @Craig McNally suggested that means we would be better off keeping only the Active status

    • @jroot (Unlicensed) suggested that for operators, the dividing line is what is considered generally available for production release

    • @Marc Johnson suggested that would mean the active release(s) would not be the one applicable to new modules. As long as folks are happy that they know which release applies to new modules, then we can leave the statuses alone and move on

    • @Craig McNally suggested we leave the statuses as is, because these reflect which releases are should be fairly stable and only updated for significant security issues

    • @Marc Johnson suggested that for the release(s) being actively developed, we would expect the versions of these technologies to be changing, for example, the recent Java 17 decision

    • @Craig McNally Asked if that was an exception due to releases being rescheduled?

    •  @Marc Johnson advised that the only difference would be that the Quesnelia release would be the one that changed instead of Poppy. This is a general challenge with our release management

  • @Craig McNally asked what the intended purpose of these statuses was?

    • @Zak_Burke suggested it would be really helpful to the UI folks planning changes due to the longer runway for Poppy to have a process for these kind of changes

    • @Tod Olson suggested that these statuses are loosely related to that status of the releases themselves. And that the audience includes developers and module evaluators

    • @Craig McNally suggested the audience also includes module evaluators. And that the process at the moment is very loose and will be updated when we know more

    • @Marc Johnson agrees with Zak, getting a process in place is more important than agreeing on these statuses. And raised the concern about how we've embedded some policies in these statuses and that the guidance around them does not match up with how they will be used

    • @Craig McNally captured open questions for us to review

      • what are the relevant milestones in the release process for moving the status of these pages?

      • do we want a single status for the current release and in support or multiples statuses?

      • what is the process for making changes to these documents?

    • @Craig McNally asked why we needed the statuses?

      • @Marc Johnson stated the reason we wanted to statuses was to avoid ambiguous edits to the pages and arbitrary text reflecting their status. We could not have any statuses and instead, only update the pages when we've decided, however that makes it harder to evaluate draft changes to these documents

Topic Backlog

 

 

 

 

Action Items

@Craig McNally to update the Java 17 decision record to apply to the Poppy release