November 2010 - Partner Meeting

Friday Morning

Review Project Contributors (timebox)

• founders
• MediaShelf
• other contributors
• interested 3rd parties

Bibliotheque Alexandrina / DAR and Hydra

• overall architecture
• book viewer
• comparison w/ Hydra architecture & direction
• Youssef's powerpoint presentation on DAR

Content Model Discussions

• " don't call it a CONTENT MODEL"
  • how to have effective conversations on a content model
  • how to send a concise & clear message to community on Hydra content models.
• ContentMD discussions: explicit data stream, or implicit & assembled?
• RightsMD discussions: adding embargo information

Friday Afternoon

AIMS & Hydra

• functional requirements
• Archival content models
• AIMS technical roadmap
• AIMS resourcing strategy
• AIMS timeline
• questions from AIMS group about web services & general architecture
  AIMS Arrangement and Description Functional Requirements, as of Nov. 5
  AIMS Discovery and Access Functional Requirements, as of Nov. 5

UI Development Process
UI Development Process Discussion 05 November

• Jessie, Jennifer, Matt, Tom, Charles
• Garrick & John & Robin
• level of detail in specs
• interacting with mocks
• testing & feedback loop
• cucumber coverage
• communication / consulting on design

Hydra(ngea)

• community testing standards
• community documentation standards
• possible user documentation

Time-based releases

• moving to time-based releases?
• length of iteration

JIRA Review

Jira Discussion

• existing tickets
• contents of each ticket
• workflow (from ticket creation, assignment, resolution, closed)
• releases & labels – by institution
• prioritization
• guidelines for writing a good jira ticket
• document all these as expectations for new developers

Saturday Morning

Product Requirements Description / Statements of Work

• How development on Heads vs. Core will be structured
• for UVa & Stanford
• for AIMS
• global? or by head? or by institution?
• translation between Epics and Product Vision / Roadmap / Requirements doc
• review Epics to make sure it's a comprehensive list

Public-facing Hydra web site & information

• See Hydra Project Infrastructure Google Doc
• projecthydra.org?
• short mission statement, definitions
• demo apps

Specific Technical Topics

• Opinionated Metadata
• Solrizer
• Bundling components for easy install
• WAR file?

Saturday Afternoon

Hydra Steering Group

• code licensing
• Apache project?
• Hydra community model
• next meetings
• technical development roadmap
• interinstitutional resourcing plans
• community development roadmap
• mission statement
• Relationship with DuraSpace

Other Topics:

• web services, robots, workdo
• REST AP

Action Items

• each institution / stakeholder should fill out their list of Project Contributors
  • splice community / stakeholder pages from Collab and other wiki page with this.
  • crossref with projecthydra.org