Tech meeting

Attendees: To be listed

Date: 2015-10-29 14:00-15:30

Agenda

• VLO tickets + milestones: https://trac.clarin.eu/report/10

• general points about software development + documentation (see also https://trac.clarin.eu/wiki/SoftwareDevelopment)

• Google indexability

• license information in metadata

Some points of clarification

Everybody in the tech team (I call this way for the current whole stakeholders for the time being, but we need to define the tech team)

• Who’s who in the team? (Developers and some business experts?)
• (Re)organisation of the team
• How to communicate with others? (emails, Skype, Adobe, Gtalk, Gdoc, Trac etc)
• Shared calendar? (especially to report long holidays)
• Do we organise regular virtual meetings? (How?)
• How to organise( report/assign/curate/solve) a ticket? (to establish a workflow for bug fixing, new features, feedback, analysis etc).
• How to organise Trac Wiki?

Among developers:

• What servers will be used for what? (At least, (developer’s local instance), test and production servers. How to use Minerva and Hephaistos servers (ACDH) in comparison with Dutch servers?)
• What development tools will be used and how?
• Who are the admins of the servers and software?
• What are trunk and branch strategies? (for milestones/releases)
• What are the coding conventions?
• Who will make basic technical documentations (of the current architecture, workflow, configurations, practices etc)? (cf Official documentation for data ingestion/curation is planned. Re-organisation of CLARIN web documentation is planned.)

In relation to business team

• Who’s in the business team?
• How does the business (and/or curation) team work with developers? (also regular virtual meetings less frequent than developer’s?)
• How to write the business requirements (use cases, functional specifications) and technical requirements and specifications?
• How to work on testing?
• How to make decision on development (priorities, sign-off, release dates etc)?
• How to cooperate with user evaluation and marketing activities (eg CLARIN Plus)?
• How to work with other taskforces (CCR, legal etc)?
• How to work with other CLARIN service developments (Content Search, Weblicht etc)?