Roadmap Meeting April 29 2016 11:30 am AST

• Chair: Jean
• Notetaker: Brian

Per: Schedule

• Attending: Carrell, Eric Koester, Mark Jordan, Noah Smith, Nick Ruest, Jordan Fields, Melissa Anez, Mark Baggett, Rosie Lefaive, Will Panting, Donald Moses, Brian Harrington, Jean Phillips

• Apologies: David Wilcox, Jennifer Eustis

Agenda

Old Business

• Previous meeting notes

• Islandora 7.x-1.7 Release

New release will be delayed due to security blocker. New release date TBD. Melissa will ask Dan to send an update to the list.

• Islandora Awesome - license question/contributing.md

Melissa updated contributing.md. It now officially states that no CLA is required.

New Business

• Security in Islandora (based on recent issues)

A working group will be created to work on a policy for security fixes. We especially need to establish a policy on how many versions back we are going to support.

Interest Group Updates

• Documentation IG (Melissa)

Did not meet. Nothing to report.

• Dev Ops (Mark Jordan)

Nothing to report.

• Metadata IG (Jennifer)

No report.

• IR interest group (Donald)

Reviewed survey results. Mitch McKenzie is looking at creating a Scholar profile, which will bundle Scholar with its prerequisites and a set of complementary modules. There was also discussion of CLAW and Scholar, and new testers were found for the upcoming release.

CLAW

Nigel's contract work is done

• All transferred over
• Good conversation with the Hydra community - specifically Erin Fehy at Stanford - about sharing/collorating on various level of the devops side of things
• Same with Fedora API-X https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/2016-04-28+Fedora+API+Extensions+Meeting
• System architecture - IMPORT
  • Performance and Scaling group
    • https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/2016-04-18+Performance+-+Scale+Meeting

April 20th CLAW Call

• PCDM alignment between the communities
• Lots of discussion of creating a set of test objects
• Create a TCK - test compatibility kit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_Compatibility_Kit

April 27th CLAW Call

• Discussion about project restructuring on GitHub
  • https://github.com/Islandora-CLAW/CLAW/issues/182#issuecomment-215283195
• Discussion on the project plan
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mHHVV2_nlmc7L6tNyX4T1wFO0MN49OJsqMGRzdEyt9k/edit#heading=h.nd0z9xnpcxqr
  • focus on the priorities section at the bottom

April Sprint

New participants:

• Ben Rosner from Barnard
• Ed Fugikawa from Wyoming

Microservices work continues to grow and evovle

• focus on image service
• https://github.com/Islandora-CLAW/CLAW/issues/179
• good discussions - more cross community collaboration
  • archivematica - Format Policy Registry
    • I'll be at the Archivematica Camp in August
    • Justin is going to join us on a call
  • FITS Web Service
    • http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/fits-web-service

Islandora Camps

• iCampFL

Reached the financial breakeven point in registrations.

• iCampBC2

Registration continues. There is a hard limit of 42 participants.

• iCampMO

In Kansas City, October 12-14. Registration will open after iCampFL

• Islandoracon

The committee has received several expressions of interest.

Round Table

• Carrell -- Beginning look at migration from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4
• Eric -- Still plugging away on implementation. Should launch next month.
• Mark Jordan -- Going live on Monday.
• Noah -- Developed new provisioning scripts for CentOS. Should be bringing lessons learned to the DevOps group.
• Nick -- Will be posting a new developer position soon.
• Jordan -- 11 institutions have data ingested so far. They are using Islandora as a backend, and Pika as the front end.
• Melissa -- Covered everything already.
• Mark Baggett -- Has a metadata position open.
• Rosie -- Not much new to report. Hoping to start some migration projects soon.
• Will -- Nothing to share.
• Donald -- PEI's new IslandScholar repository is up at http://data.researchspaces.ca/
• Brian -- Not much new, but bringing up two new repositories soon.
• Jean -- Looking at possibly moving to BlazeGraph as a triple store. FSU has a new OA policy, which has lead to lots of submissions.

Next meeting: May 13

• Chair: Brian
• Notes: Rosie