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Retrospective

  • Botimer
      Housekeeping
      • Addressed housekeeping tasks primarily
      • Great job of grooming in advanced, very helpful
      • Very accurate list of things being addressed
      • Worked very well to have Pendragon addressing the templates
      • Seemed to pretty good, anxious to address more technical issues
    • Pendragon
      • Generally went okay
      • There were a couple of points of improvement
        • Clearer for meeting time for standups...might not have been distributed
        • Went through issues well...might need to go through repositories again
        • Need to be up to date on documentation...some expectations built after issues were created
        • Relevant product owners should have expected to have been pinged
          • We ended up pinging more people than expected
      • Split everything up really well, got through more tickets than expected
    • Griffin
        Review
        • Proposed a review column for waffle
        • Otherwise,
        successArmintor
        • felt that this was a great success
      • Pendragon
        • How did Waffle go?
        • Cross repository Waffle seemed to have worked
      • Botimer
        • "Done" column had issues disappear
          • Once GitHub issues are closed, labels are removed (hence, removed from the cross-repository board)
      • Pendragon
          • Might try adjusting the labels in order to try and provide an alternative solution for this
      • Botimer
        • In the browser there were also some performance issues for updates
      • Pendragon
        • At times, there would be issues which would occasionally be issues which were
        rendered in the inbox
        • delivered to the GitHub Inbox
      • Pendragon
        • How were standups?
      • Botimer:
        • Seemed fine


      Follow-Up Tasks and Sprint 2

      • Pendragon:
      • Next Sprint Planning
        • 09/17 - 09/21
        • Pendragon
          • Some time between now and then, should review the issues on the Waffle board
        • But,
        this
        • Spreadsheet should be addressed more immediately
          • Call for participation and contact product owners
          • Action item for next week to issue a CFP


      Licensing

      • Botimer
        • Armintor and Botimer discussed this earlier on Slack
        • Looking into details for Apache Software Foundation (ASF) practices...
        operating and treating documentation of
        • their treatment of documenting copyright
        Operate
        • They operate similarly to how Samvera does
          • CLA's was borrowed heavily with a preamble specific to Samvera
        • We do not assign copyright
          • Authors to code retain copyright
          • Group retains the composite
            • Combination itself is a work in its own right
          • ASF
        : One
          • issues one copyright statement for derivative work (combined thing)
          • There is an open question...can we make a copyright statement for the collective work?
          • There are examples would lead us to believe that "Samvera Community" would be okay with a separate list of authors
          • There is a challenge with existing practices...commit log uses an e-mail address
            • Might resolve cleanly in terms of GitHub...good tracking for CLAs and their employers
            • Contributions are work-for-hire
          • But, this is still not clear
        There are two courses
      • Actions to be taken
        • Check with Michael Klein as product owner who is in the copyright statement for MIT on
        BEChange to ASF
        • browse-everything
          • Should be able to change to an Apache license from MIT
          • Theoretically could change the licenses without including MIT at all, but best to include the MIT license and specify that this exclusively covers previous releases
          • Ensure that this is consistent with other Gems in Samvera
        Other action
        • Propose Consistency Guidelines for Copyright to Partners
        • Concise summary of what we are seeing...and work we are seeing to get to a simple practice towards evaluating projects as following guidelines
          • Ensuring that file contents are identical (e. g. the top portion of a notice document is the same line)
            • List of institutions who want specific adjustments for the notice file (e. g. Trustees of
        ...
            • Institution X)
          • This way the guidelines are simple, can be readily checked
            Provide
                • Provides a single file where additional copyright holders are specified
          • Pendragon:
              How
              • Where are we
              all over the board now
              • inconsistent currently?
            • Botimer:
              • Nobody has challenged the current copyright statement
              • Headers in certain files might still have copyright ownership information (e. g. jQuery plugin files with this information)
                • Would like to have one formula...for structuring this content and placing it within specific files
                • We should have one descriptive file...without consulting an external source (e. g. the git history)
                  • Notes that the tarball distribution won't have that
            • Get BE over to Apache license
            • Summarize We need to summarize the inconsistency, make a proposal for better consistency to vet amongst ourselves and take to the Partners
            • Pendragon
              • More immediately, finish this document for the proposal, submit it to the WG for review, then prepare it for submission to Partners
              • Botimer and Armintor will finish this, highlighting the problems regarding the maintenance of the documentation within those repositories
            • Feels Pendragon also agrees with Armintor and feels that some significant changes to existing copyright statements might require input from attorneys
            • Botimer
              • Still feels that the current state of affairs would cause institutions to hesitate before contributing to the software (if reviewed by their attorneys)


            Code of Conduct

              • Link Should we link out to shared code of conduct?
                • Proposed by Mark Bussey
              • Botimer
                • Goal is consistency...likes the concept
                • It really doesn't matter...if we have a script which applies the template
                  • The other content is boilerplate
                • Does not have a strong stance
                    This is an
                      • Notes that this relates to interaction outside of the source code...so it might not be best that its in the source code
                    If
                      • But, iff the body of the Code of Conduct can be readily integrated into the code base...then that is fine
                  • Pendragon
                    • Linking out is more efficient, but checkmark from GitHub is best for metrics
                    • Should try out having it out in individual repositories, and if it becomes a problem, then address it
                    • Has the CoC changed in the past four years?
                        Added
                          • Not really, it has just been added to the Wiki, and then just updated with the name Samvera

                    Meeting adjourned at 15:31EDT