2024-11-07 Product Council Agenda and Meeting Notes

 Date

Nov 7, 2024

https://zoom.us/j/867230970

 Participants

  • @Alexis Manheim @Kristin Martin @Laura E Daniels @Sharon Markus @Jana Freytag @Martina Schildt @Peter Murray @Jeremy Huff @Charlotte Whitt @Tod Olson @Brooks Travis @Tara Barnett @Martina Tumulla @Lisa McColl @Dung-Lan Chen @Scott Perry @Yogesh Kumar (first ~10min) @Cornelia Awenius @Jesse Koennecke @Jenn Colt @Christopher Spalding @Ian Walls @Gang Zhou

  • Note taker: @Martin Scholz

 Discussion topics

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5 min

Announcements

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  • Linked Open Data subgroup is now a SIG

  • Yogesh Kumar sees new Bugfest testers but number of claimed test cases is still low; more people need to engage to reach our goal to finish Bugfest till end of month.

    • Jeremy is about to send out a notice on behalf of PC, awaits approval. Where should it be posted: email and/or through SIGs? => Should be sent by email.

  • Jana Freytag: RA SIG seeks new co-convenor; should be announced on general folio slack channel

50 min

Prioritization rollout in the SIGs

@Kristin Martin @Martina Schildt

Review of Prioritization process in Acquisition SIG:

Acquisitions/Resource Management implementers

Prioritization

Desired outcome: Jira dashboard of features identified as SIG priorities that may not be slated for a release, but can be picked up by development teams.

Questions for discussion:

  • Do you already have a mechanism for your SIG for collecting priorities?

  • Are priorities represented in Jira or through another means?

  • Do you keep a topic backlog/topic page that you can draw on to develop priorities?

  • Are there dormant features that should be revisited?

  • What barriers do you have in collecting priorities?

  • What do you think would be a good time frame for collecting priorities?

  • What can the PC do to help your SIG with this work?

Martina Schildt opens topic by quickly presenting how ACQ SIG is doing prioritisation:

  • Wiki page (see above) for implementer topics; topics will be discussed in SIG and wiki page is amended

  • From topcis Jira tickets are created; each ticket can be voted with the like button (upper right)

  • High votes do not garantee rapid development, but developers can orient on that if they have spare dev time

  • Jira dashboard with most voted tickets

Discussion of Questions above: (not final, Martin needs to consult recordings)

  • Jana: RA SIG has backlog list, no voting process, but prioritzing gaps, work through it in meetings Gap list RA SIG

    • Existing Jira tickets are searched and linked

    • person responsible for a gap should create tickets

    • are tags used for tickets? => currently not

    • There is need for volunteers for creating/maintaining the tickets

  • Martina: ERM has similar system as ACQ SIG; ERM SIG is willing to adopt process

  • Laura: LD SIG has small parking lot, currently planning meetings is more of a topic and curently there are also no implementers; the prioritisation process will be discussed, important
    MM SIG is more difficult, difficult to come to an agreement on priorities as institutions have very differnt needs

    • Alexis: there need no necessary be agreement; priorities should surface needs

  • Kristin: AI SIG looked at have spreadsheet

    • more info from spreadsheet should go into Jira

    • Dashboards can help people get active if they’re concerned with something in folio

  • Martina: cleaning up the tickets is important

  • Laura: things that have been thinthreaded/half implemented should be revisited, what approaches are there?

    • Kristin: timing would be good now for that; but thinthreaded things may not be visible in Jira as they may be marked as done; some kind of survey would have to be done

    • Jana: going though backlogs and closing deprecated features may remove load

    • Caitlin: Jira tickets can be bulk updated, eg. add labels; special permissions are needed; Holly used to do it; Permissions may need to be adjusted. Peter can look into it

  • => there should be a recorded session about creating and maintaining tickets

  • Sharon: Reporting SIG use github issues, easier and faster to organise for their needs; with Reporting app SIG returns to Jira. Meta DB is managed through github issues.

    • Charlotte: mod-reporting, ui-ldp and mod-ldp all were managed with JIRA

  • Charlotte: It would be useful if all members had permissions to use tags to label tickets; ?

  • Kristin: Prioritisation rollout till Trillium; but usable beginning next year; standardized tagset for better search

  • Martina: How can the PC help convenors discuss / roll out this process in SIGs

  • Sharon: maybe there should be a Jira support group; Caitlin in chat: maybe a slack channel

    • nobody should not to get their things done because they don’t know Jira

  • Charlotte: When talking to devs: If it isn’t in Jira, it doesn’t exist

  • Tod: this topic parallels with lifecycle of definition of done in different teams

5 min

Future topics

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