Date

Call-in Information

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

To join the online meeting:

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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 
  7. Benjamin Gross (star)

Agenda

  1. Announcements / updates
    1. Status of VIVO in a Box discussion in Leadership group (see 2021-4-28 Leadership Group Meeting)
    2. VIVO conference 23-25 June https://vivoconference.org/vivo2021/
  2. Wasn't made a blocker but has one approval.  Can we have a second?
  3.  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?
  4. 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
  5. Making meetings useful and productive
    1. What do you need for your work?
    2. Scheduling topic-centric meetings versus working sessions to collaborate on issues?
    3. Frequency

4. 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. Blocker release issues
  2. Status of In-Review tickets



Notes


Draft notes on Google Drive