2011 07 25 Meeting minutes
Post date: Aug 08, 2011 2:4:55 AM
Attending
Duncan Dickinson (DD)
Vicki Picasso (VP)
Nick Nicholas (NN)
Greg Pendlebury (GP)
Norm Lawler (NL)
Minutes
Project reference group members
Issue: DD was asked about PRG membership from a number of community members. The item pertains to who can be a member of the PRG.
Discussion:
NL: Need to ensure that decision-making encompasses the community but doesn't become unwieldy
VP: It's important to establish a stable core product and ensure that the PRG works to achieve this. Focus must be on coverage of features that meet most needs, leaving local customisation at the institution-level
NL: It would be good to have a non-Vital user
NN: ANDS is interested in a range of functionality as long as it is manageable.
DD: The code-base is open source and those community members with resources can download and extend the code. It'd be good to roll in features where they make sense wrt to the core product
Resolutions:
PRG will remain as-is for now but this is to be reviewed with the goal of opening up membership further in Nov 2011. The PRG will need to determine membership criteria.
The community is encouraged to raise their requirements to the PRG.
GP: Action item to look into governance models for open source efforts
Current development work
Issue: Report on current technical efforts
Discussion:
We have transitioned to a new project tracking system: Pivotal Tracker (https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/316187)
Request has been submitted to CQU for a build server and a sandbox server
We are aiming to have monthly releases
Bug fix work discussed
Resolutions:
DD to produce ReDBox/Mint 1.1 feature list
Mint development
Issue: Duncan provided an overview of the current Mint functionality requirements
Discussion:
VP: Need to develop 2-way data feed from ReDBox to Mint as a priority so that Party records are correctly fed to ANDS
All: Need to develop Mint relationships
Party<->Party: Such as people and group memberships
Party<->Activities
DD: Mint API needs to be based on a standard such as OpenSearch or SRU
Improve the baseline fields collected for Parties and Activities
DD: NLA ARDC PIP interaction a good future direction
Resolutions
DD to set out Mint features for ReDBox 1.1
Ingest RIF-CS into ReDBox
Issue:
Flinders and other groups have already described data in RDA and would like to bring the RIF-CS into a ReDBox install to save re-doing data entry.
Newcastle has a team working on a Seeding the Commons project and would like to send that to UoN's ReDBox
Discussion:
DD: RIF-CS could be brought into ReDBox via OAI-PMH or file harvesting
Resolutions:
PRG agreed that this was a useful feature and should be put into the backlog
See https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/16228237 and https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/16228269
Circulation of minutes
Duncan asked for direction in terms of the circulation of minutes. All agreed that these should be public and made available via the website.
Other business
DD: eResearch Australasia 2011 workshop proposals had been submitted.
Next meeting
August 8, 2011