Tech Committee Meeting Minutes 14 April 2015

Quick Updates

• Clinton Graham (Pitt ULS)
  • Still tasked with implementing ORCID in a non-PKP project
  • Probably returning to OJS in a couple of weeks to begin testing/bugfixing the SUSHI-Lite plugin with Plum Analytics

• Bozana Bokan
  • planing the update to OJS 2.4.6 + starting to use git for hosted journals
  • smaller OMP developments
  • protection of privacy data
    • plan for the next few months; for both OJS and OMP: statistics plugin; social media plugin; and Log in as option
  • Felix is also working out very well.
    • currently working on public files upload possibility; and import/export of email templates

• Marc Bria
  • Starting OJS 2.4.5 theming adaptation for papers.uab.cat.
  • Helping OMP translators that next will start the testing process.
  • Reviewing our journals to ensure metadata is complete.

• James MacGregor/hosting
  • We've been looking at using gitlabs to better manage our customized journal. Will work on documentation and send to group. Clinton, Marc and Bozana in particular are interested.

Release Progress (Alec)

• OJS 2.4.6 went well: bug w/subscriptions already popped up.
• OMP 1.1.2? May just jump to OMP 1.2 unless there's a particular call for a new stable release.
• OJS 3.0 beta is still on track for August/conference release. Brian, Alec, Kevin have been meeting to ensure that our more important features are making it in.
  • Have a new developer working on UI/UX stuff and plugin gallery for 3.0 (Nate).

UI/UX (Alec / Kevin)

• Progress on several elements (new submission list, copyediting discussion tool, etc.)
• Working to separate reader interface templates and workflow interface templates
• Early mockup of new administrative interface ideas
• Will have some mockups of one or two reader interfaces soon
• Moving toward Gitbook for PKP documentation; better version control (language, software version)
• Looking at replacing XML-based internal application Help files with Gitbook docs
  • Marco may be tasked to look at translation options :-)
• Article display discussions
• User registration discussions
• Report on Section 508/WCAG compliance: http://scholarworks.csun.edu/handle/10211.3/134103
  • good at the letter, but maybe not the spirit of the law
  • reader front end: no problem
  • screen readers: ok
  • backend: some problems, we're investigating

• Bootstrap: haven't firmly agreed that this will be a dependency, but we're looking at it.

Release Automation (Alec)

• Ready to perform first test release of OJS 2.4.6-1 when the patch set is appropriate.

Translation (Marco)

• Nothing major ATM.
• Received Arabic translation.
• Have been encountering more frequent situations where someone who is not our main translator sends in a suggested change. Will have to develop some sort of workflow for managing this, so that main translators are included.

New Forum (Alec/Kevin)

• Old forum now to be closed.
• Clinton: workflow has changed substantially. Previously, used RSS/email. Some challenges to move over and keep up with information flow.
  • Email tweaking may help - there are listserv-like options available, apparently.
• Bozana: some concern that the one forum for all software may be problematic.
  • We're still waiting for a proper tag plugin to be made stable, at which point folks can tag their threads with the software they're using.
• Marco: also having problems moving over to new workflow. Thinks the new situation with the one forum etc. is ambitious, but working well.
• Marc: It will take some time to switch over to this environment; it's a whole new environment, and we have to learn it. Maybe still too soon to tell how well it's working. Likes a lot writing, but feels is difficult to find posts and take a clear picture about how active is the community.

• PKP team will discuss discoverability/readability/external tracking more on Thursday.
• Will also decommission the old forum.

Next Meeting

May 19, 9am PST