Difference between revisions of "Tech Committee Meeting Minutes 6 February 2018"

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Question of the Month
- What would *you* like to see as a future Question of the Month?

Clinton (Pitt)
- Current work: Federated search for legacy journal titles
  - Context: One journal merges with another, newly merged journal searches both journal's backissues
  - Abandoning SOLR (ancient version)
  - One site install, two journals; hijack journal's search handler and redirect to index search
    - Hook for hijacking Request/Router?
    - Hook for hijacking URL output?
- Future question: What would make the next Sprint awesome?

Kenton (Ualberta)
- Current work: Active OJS 3.1 migration project. Talking with PKP about contributing developer time to integrate Objects for Review type functionality into OJS code base (instead of a plug-in). From the notes Alec took:
  - A toolkit to allow the manager/editor to solicit reviews (typically of books), so that authors can submit something the journal wants.
  - Additions to the OJS workflow to track review-related metadata for these submissions (e.g. what's being reviewed, who authored the original work, etc).
  - Additions to the publishing front-end to present review content appropriately.

- Future question: How do large sites plan for business continuity/disaster recovery around their OJS hosting?

Alex (SciELO), via email
- As a quick update, we are making progress with our OJS 3 internal and external testing. We should schedule a Webinar until the end of the month to our 48 journals. I am thinking of a series of two webinars: setting up a journal + workflow. PKP School has been of great help for molding our future Webinar (so thanks for that!).
- Regarding my suggestion for Question of the Month: What are your thoughts about Preprints? Do your journals accept it? How do you think it will change peer review as we know it?

Dulip (Heidelberg)
- Current Work : migration script for converting OMP Web2py database-tables into Django-Framework
- Minor enhancements to lens-viewer for OMP
- Question : Howto resolve security considerations on subscription module for future?

Svantje (Berlin)
- OJS-de.net workshop last week - meeting of german OJS users and developers
- Question of the month: How can we improve the support for developers? :)

Chris (Illinois)
- revising Illinois fork of Bootstrap theme for new UI branding
- launched a new monograph (publicized via OMP), prepping another journal
- complaining about running a dev version of OMP/OJS

Report out on subgroup conversations and work.

Labels for better transparency on milestones/goals: https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/labels
OJS/OMP 3.1.1 under 10 remaining issues; on track for Q1 release
OJS 3.2 shooting for early Q4 release; feature list to be refined as we finish 3.1.1
Identified 3 long-term priorities to address incrementally in each release:
- Stats/reports
- Document-centric workflow
- Hosting priorities

Marco taking a break from day-to-day management; Alec taking care of merges in the meantime
Translation meeting to review Pootle and other options on Monday 12th

Reviewed last round of feedback and filed some of the highest-priority issues; see the UI/UX label in github

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 * OJS/OMP 3.1.1 under 10 remaining issues; on track for Q1 release
 * OJS 3.2 shooting for early Q4 release; feature list to be refined as we finish 3.1.1
+* Identified 3 long-term priorities to address incrementally in each release:
+** Stats/reports
+** Document-centric workflow
+** Hosting priorities
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