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21 October 2021

In Attendance

  • Present: Marc, Alex, Clinton, Dulip, Ronald, Alec, Antti-Jussi, Pierre
  • Regrets: Sonya

Quick Updates

What have you been working on lately?

  • Alec
    • Publishing sample datasets (https://github.com/pkp/datasets/)
      • Currently stored in GitHub, and run in Travis, but could move elsewhere.
      • Travis is limited to a certain number of queues
      • Added tests are anticipated to be very quick, live tests will be more time intensive and may be scheduled weekly
      • TODO: determine how to manage that third party data
    • Upgrade testing
    • Planning for 3.5 and 3.6
  • Alex
    • Not much (vacation!)
    • Fine-tuning PREreview plugin for OPS.
  • Marc
    • University having IT problems
    • All down since 11 oct and still don't get a date for network recovering.
    • Our journals (under debian and docker) had no harm.
    • Not leaving UAB (yet).
  • Dulip
    • Rosetta Long term archiving plugin - finished, As Rosetta is a commercial software did not publically advertise it. But will put in github under GPL3
      • This plugin does provide METS support, which might be generally interesting.
  • AJ
    • Working on some custom plugins for our own (national) use
  • Ronald
    • Upgarding DNB plugin to OJS 3.3 (adding supplementary material, Orcid)
    • accessibility statement template for our journals
  • Pierre
    • Upgrade to 3.3.0.8 to solve a problem with Érudit-OJS gateway.
  • Clinton
    • Pitt is working on plugin support for 3.3+ for ULS plugins.

Highlight of the month:

Old Business

  • September minutes are here: https://github.com/pkp/technical-committee/blob/main/meeting-minutes/2021-09-16.md
  • Testing working group had its first meeting. Notes are here: https://hackmd.io/ZDlzUIkCSV-GjkmGV6Sa7w?both
    • Defined aim of group, discussed internal organization (finalization still pending)
    • next meeting on October 28 9am Pacific (thank you Ronald for organizing).
    • If others are interested in joining, the invitation is open (ping dev-partners in Slack)
    • A. Gerhart could be a good addition
  • Technical Upgrade Guide is now live on the docs hub! https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/dev/upgrade-guide/
    • Thanks, Marc!
    • Still TODO: a "quickstart" guide, to be done in the next couple of months
    • Question of Attribution: should contributors be named in the opening of the document, as per the Metadata Guide? May have implications for translations, etc.
      • We want to acknowledge contributions
      • We don't want to maintain unweildy lists as they change over time
      • We see that we didn't effectively capture that in GitHub metadata
      • Alec and Marc will raise with the DIG the idea of adding a new page of contributors: categorized by creators, translators, contributors.
    • Q: where does this get shared? Can we work with Nathalie to distribute broadly?
      • Yes, Alec will connect with Nathalie.

New discussions

  • Retiring old upgrade scripts (see October 8 email from Alec)

    • ADODB is a heavy legacy liablity until we remove support for upgrades to 3.2
    • Proposal: remove support for one major release per major release
    • TODO: Alec will provide graph of 3.x version usage
    • This is connected with the LTS option
      • We should be able to upgrade from LTS to LTS version
      • Alec will re-share the LTS proposal, please review so we can get this to the directors
      • We have as a TODO the method of determining what we identify as LTS
    • Unsupported upgrades will refer to UPGRADE-UNSUPPORTED.md, which will be updated with this policy.
    • Could 3.2 be a hard cut over?
      • Alec will check on install distribution.
      • We want to make this as pain free as possible for the most folks

  • Multijournal hosting and shared user accounts (see October 19 email from Alec)

    • PKP hosting has been asking for this in order to scale effectively
    • SciELO is hitting restrictions between user accounts
    • Goal: don't introduce two modes of operation
    • Consider separating: user accounts from journal contract (sounds a lot like OAuth/OpenID)
    • Plugins
      • Examples of segmenting plugins: Drupal divides into "all" and per-site directories for plugin installs.
      • Neither PKP|PS nor SciELO have a critical problem with plugins at the moment.
    • Consider needs for multijournal management and user identity management (portal, off the shelf tooling, API integration, etc.)

Next Meeting

November 18, 2021