Time/Place
- Time: 11:30am Eastern Daylight Time US (UTC-4)
- Call-in: DuraSpace conference line
- 209-647-1600, 117433#
Attendees
- David Wilcox
- Andrew Woods
- Jonathan Markow
- Michael J. Giarlo
- Tim McGeary
- Tim Shearer
- Declan Fleming
- Robert Cartolano
Mark Leggott- Robin Lindley Ruggaber
- Tom Cramer
- Julie Speer
Greg Jansen- Glen Robson
- Jon Dunn
- Michael Friscia
Wolfram Horstmann- Thorny Staples
- Matthias Razum
- Neil Jefferies
Susan LaffertyAndrew Ashton- Patrick Yott
- Philip Konomos
Agenda
Topics Welcome new Leaders Update on Beta PilotsParticipation in October Hackfest (in Atlanta/DLF) Fedora 4.0 Beta 2 and Beta 3 releases Technical Working Group update
Minutes
Welcome newcomers
- Phil Konomos, ASU
- Tim Shearer, UNC
October Hackfest
- 8 devs signed up for sprints so far; half are new
- Signups for DLF-week hackfest are light and do not reach critical mass yet;
- Tom: Might be more feasible to just have orientation session(s)
- Andrew would like to get core developers together in October or early November as last boost for production release
- Andrew and David will distribute a list of core developers who would be required for this and we'll see who would be available
Beta Pilot News
- UCSD (Declan):
- Prototype for possibly replacing their backend
- Developed java library for talking to Fedora 4
- Created sample dataset
- Loaded into federated filesystem
- Mapped their DAMS to Fedora 4
- Will compare ModeShape ingestion to their federated filesystem
- Versioning, locking, access control not implemented now
- Andrew: Community will find the content model mapping to be informative
- Andrew: Pilot will compare direct ingest into Fedora via API vs the "projection" capability
- Esme will summarize their experience by November
- Penn State (Andrew)
- They are interested in upgrading Hydra from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4
- Valuable feedback being provided by beta testers (including UCSD) re bugs, etc.
- Will likely be other beta pilots
- Tom: Stanford starting a Fedora 4 beta pilot this month for an annotation store
- David: We will highlight the beta pilots with webinars
Fedora 4 Status Updates
- David: Anything needed to be added to the messaging?
- Rob: These have been very helpful and informative
- Robin: They have been effective; we have gotten very good feedback
- David: New feedback welcome at any time
Fedora 4 beta2 and beta3 releases (Andrew)
- Beta3 incorporated critical bug fixes and changes to accommodate new Modeshape beta release
Technical Working Group Update (Andrew)
- Link above lists members
- Group has been meeting once a week so far
- Initial work has summarized history of performance testing; brought architecture diagram up to date
- Group is listing areas of the technology stack that might be of concern:
- Rest API - interest in assessing the API for suitability and fit
- Group recommends versioning the API separately from the repository
- Focus on performance
- Will evaluate single server setup initially
Other work (Andrew)
- Acceptance testing needs to be ramped up
- Virginia Tech called out for its work in this area
- Jon: IU has been doing acceptance testing, will document on the wiki
- Tom: Stanford pilot will give opportunity to kick the tires
- Lack of comprehensive acceptance testing could impact production release
- Robin: UVa will not do acceptance testing since they're working on the code
- Tim will look into the feasibility of doing testing at Duke
Andrew: Asks if Leadership group wants to contribute to agenda for these meeting; response is that things are going well with current approach; all are invited to add items to agenda
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