Roadmap Meeting October 16 2015 2pm AST

• Chair: Jennifer
• Notetaker: Noah

Per: Schedule

• Attending: Melissa, Jennifer, Mark Cooper, Carrel Jackimiek, Donald Moses, Nick Ruest, Will Panting
• Apologies: Caleb Dervan, David Wilcox, Rosie

Old Business

• Previous meeting notes

• 7.x-1.6 release

• Almost all green, release expected as planned (two weeks from yesterday)

Interest Groups

• Preservation Interest Group (Donald)

• Meeting for sure next month, and hopefully regularly after that

• Fedora 4 Interest Group (Nick)

• Meeting at Hylandora day. Agenda: https://github.com/islandora-interest-groups/Islandora-Fedora4-Interest-Group/blob/master/meetings/12.md

• Two new committers: Diego Pino (Chile) and Aaron Coburn (Amherst College)

• 7x.2x Sprint: perhaps not much code necessary, this may be a documentation sprint

• Documentation Interest Group (Melissa)

• Next meeting at IslandoraCamp CT, might be cancelled due to unavailability of leadership

• Group is struggling with membership, looking for recruitment support

• Dev Ops Interest Group (Mark Jordan)

• Productive meeting this week; still bootstrapping out of excellent meeting at conference

• Phil Suda will liase between Documentation and DevOps

• Looking for a new maintainer for vagrant; nothing decided but progress is being made

• Metadata Interest Group (Jennifer)

• Scaling back on sub-groups to just two (Fedora 4 + Hydra Compatibility) with others being handled by the larger group

• Agenda for Nov 9: https://github.com/islandora-interest-groups/Islandora-Metadata-Interest-Group/blob/master/Meetings/Agenda05.md

• UI Interest Group (Rosie - absent)

• No representatives present

• IR Interest Group (new!)

• Looking for representative; Jennifer volunteered

• Previous meeting notes: https://github.com/islandora-interest-groups/Islandora-IR-Interest-Group/blob/master/meetings/02.md

• Meetings every 4th Thursday of month at 3pm ET on Skype (notify Emily Toner or Bryan Brown)

Islandora Camp updates

• iCampCT
• Conference attendance down compared to hoped, but budget in the black
• Schedule is solid, Hylandora day is now free and unconference (still recruiting)
• Next camp: Florida in March
• Next conference: two years away, location TBD

New Business

• Licenses for 7.x-2.x related things. Discussion here and here (Nick)
• GPLv2 or GPLv3 candidates: GPLv3 has hangups on patent language
• No legal counsel yet; but Nick has excellent resources via Evergreen and Software Freedom Law Center / Software Conservancy
• Board meeting in late November should set direction: no license may be accepted on this project until the Board reaches an opinion
• Further discussion illuminated the depth and murkiness of this issue
• Can this remain unlicensed or do we need to apply some sort of license? CLA may not require consensus on any license change?
• Resolution: Leave unlicensed for now until a more authoritative opinion is achieved. Reaching such a consensus has a reasonably high degree of urgency.
• 7.x-1.7 Release manager
• Nick is moving on to 7x.2x, so a new release manager is necessary
• This position needs to be established by December in order to hit the next release
• Nick has made his scripts available, but more documentation of actual processes and responsibilities may be necessary
• Perhaps a formal nomination process is required?
• 7.x-2.x Sandbox
• Big thanks to University of Manitoba and Carrell for making this happen! They are sponsoring the Digital Ocean hosting.
• future.islandora.ca (still some bugs to work out with user 1)

Roundtable

• Melissa just concluded a membership drives. Several positive responses, no commitments yet. Big funding goal is to hire a tech lead, and we are getting closer.
• Mark J has started migrating content!
• Nick created a JIRA ticket for Fedora 3.8.1 testing, December last year. With a big helping hand from QADan, it is very nearly complete and may make it into the 7.x-1.6 release. Also, nearly 400,000 objects in York's Islandora
• Jennifer - UConn is now running on HEAD and has a project to bring all sites to HEAD quarterly. Also - DPLA has 80% of their metadata.

Closing Remarks

• Next meeting:
  • Chair: Noah
  • Notes: Melissa