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 Lafferty
• Andrew Ashton
• Patrick Yott
• Philip Konomos

Agenda

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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