Date

Call-in Information

Time: 11:00 am, Eastern Time (New York, GMT-04:00)

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Attendees

(star)  Indicating note-taker

  1. Brian Lowe
  2. Georgy Litvinov 
  3. Michel Héon 
  4. Nicolas Dickner 
  5. William Welling 
  6. Huda Khan (star)
  7. Benjamin Gross 

Agenda

  1. Development issues for RC1 are cleared.  Only documentation / test procedure updates remain.  Blocker issues:
  2. Documentation
    1. Simplifying first pages of documentation / "Quickstart" installation guide with Docker
    2. VIVO 1.12.x Documentation
    3. READMEs that need updating
      1. Updating set of available languages (or point people to list of directories?): https://github.com/vivo-project/Vitro-languages/tree/rel-1.12.0-alpha
        1. Should this also be copied to VIVO-languages?
      2. Updating links to current wiki documentation: https://github.com/vivo-project/VIVO/tree/rel-1.12.0-alpha
        1. Also update Docker documentation to check out parallel repositories?
  3. RC1 testing
    1. Making it easy
    2. For comparison: DSpace "testathon" page and demo server: DSpace Release 7.0 Testathon Page
    3. Submitting test results without needing wiki access:
      1. Draft Google forms courtesy William Welling: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3xKY5QbzMoZ6fzkaxZMz8_oSGtkVGSYWMNBk_hjVaUtp1Qg/viewform
  4. Any "final" initial feedback on VIVO in a Box before next Leadership meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lfTzXSXrtpRVT3CVWAj55XOou94kIg7QJ2NrHPQewUM/edit?usp=sharing
    1. Reference slides: 
  5. Other topics?

Future topics

  1. Forward-looking topics:
    1. frameworks: Spring / Spring Boot / alternatives
    2. Horizontal scalability
    3. Deployment
    4. Configuration : files / environment variables / GUI settings
    5. Editing / form handling
    6. Adding custom theming without customizing build
  2. Post-release priorities
    1. Ingest / Kafka
    2. Advanced Role Management
    3. Moving Scholars closer to core - next steps
  3. Vitro JMS messaging approaches - redux
    1. Which architectural pattern should we take?
    2. What should the body of the messages be
  4. Incremental development initiatives
    1. Integration test opportunities with the switch to TDB - requires startup/shutdown of external Solr ..via Maven

Tickets

  1. Status of In-Review tickets


Notes

Draft notes on Google Drive