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Attendees

Dan Field

David Wilcox

Bethany Seeger

Rosalyn Metz

Mark Jordan

Andrew Woods

Danny Bernstein

Robin Lindley Ruggaber

Melissa Anez

Raman Ganguly

Aaron Birkland

Jared Whiklo

Wei Xuan

Ben Pennell

Tammy Allgood Wolf

Doron Shalvi

Dan Coughlin

Timothy Shearer

Agenda

1. State of Fedora 6 development
   1. Fedora Committers#Committers
   2. Upcoming sprint
   3. OCFL updates
   4. Community testing
2. Project messaging
   1. Fedora 6 Videos
3. Leadership updates?
   1. Product Technology Subgroup
   2. Other strategic subgroups?

Notes

State of Fedora 6 Development

Committers

• Most of the work comes from the committers
• It would be great to expand the committer team - currently rely on a relatively small team

Upcoming sprint

• Coming up next week
• We have removed ModeShape and implemented OCFL
• Reading and writing resources through the API to OCFL in a basic way
• Focus on containment hierarchy
• Close to being able to view resources migrated from Fedora 3 into Fedora 6
• Another 2 week sprint in Q1 2020 (e.g. March) would be ideal
• What is the expected delivery date for Fedora 6?
  • Need to set a goal in order to support a request for resources
  • Discuss at next Steering call
  • We should have a list of remaining objectives and rough estimates for resource/sprint requirements to complete
  • This would be useful to have as part of our membership messaging as well
• We have no intention of releasing Fedora 6 prematurely - community testing of the beta version is essential
  • Migration-utils is testable now; an initial Fedora 6 build is also testable now
• How will Fedora 4/5 to Fedora 6 migrations work?
  • Import-export tool rather than migration-utils
  • API-based export/import rather than transforming to OCFL on disk, but if this is impractical due to scale issues we could make it possible to transform exported Fedora 4/5 content to OCFL on disk
  • Migration-utils can also read from Fedora 4, which could also allow for the on-disk transformation to OCFL rather than an API import

Fedora 6 communications

• Short sprint summary videos
• Fedora 6 overview
• Steady communication as development progresses
• Link to videos on the roadmap page
• Communications subgroup suggested collecting testimonials, particularly from pilot partners

Leadership updates

Product technology subgroup

• Working on a Fedora 6 test plan
  • Input from technical team (and Leaders) would be helpful
  • Looking through the use cases relative to the test plan would be helpful
  • Reviewed some of the performance and scale testing plans from Fedora 4 for comparison
  • Also need to ensure good performance/scale in cloud deployments
  • Functional tests should be done first, followed by performance and scale
  • Need to categorize tests, identify which tests should be done by the tech team in advance of tests to be conducted by the community
  • Need to gather test fixtures that represent different use cases (multiple versions, many files, etc.)

Governance subgroup

• Biggest issue facing the community right now is attrition (amongst users and members)
  • Michele conducting a membership analysis for the group
  • Governance is not widely representative of global user base
  • Planning to go through the report and brainstorm some ideas for implementing the recommendations

Action Items 

•  David Wilcox add Fedora 6 delivery timeline topic to Feb. 4 Steering meeting
•  Andrew Woods Danny Bernstein make a list of Fedora 6 development priorities with estimates on resource requirements (ideally before Feb. 4 Steering meeting)