2022.06.08 Community Meeting

Call-in Details

• Wednesday June 8th 12am GMT / 8pm EDT / 5pm PDT | Thursday June 9th 10am AEST (Convert to your time zone)
• https://harvard.zoom.us/my/aawoods?pwd=dWs0c3AvVWVSdEE2SHBGMFpQOUJVQT09

Attendees

1. Rosalyn Metz
2. Peter Sefton
3. Peter Winckles
4. Seth Erickson
5. Alvin Sebastian
6. Mike Lynch
7. Simeon Warner
8. Andrew Woods

Agenda & Notes

1. Volunteer Notetaker
2. Community updates (introductions, updates, implementations, plans, etc)
3. Releasing version 1.1 of OCFL
   • See 1.1 milestone on GitHub
   • Editors close to finishing remaining 1.1 changes -- release within the next couple weeks
   • Question: How to object upgrades work?
     • Make a new object version that has a new spec version
     • Object conformance must match the spec version in the root inventory
   • Seth: When validating, it's hard to know which spec version validation codes to link to in a multi-version object
   • Seth: What is the compatibility promise? Is it intended that OCFL 2.0 objects could contain 1.0 versions or will they be so different that that would not be possible?
     • Simeon: I think the intent is that 2.0 versions could contain earlier spec versions
   • Perhaps there should be a section in the implementation notes that describes how to upgrade an object/storage root to 1.1
4. Contributed Projects in OCFL’s GitHub
   • Represents an interest of formalizing hosting implementations under the OCFL github
   • Editors will not maintain, but will help identify others in the community who may be able
   • Seth: Projects should meet a high standard of testing
     • Apart from the validation fixtures, it's hard to define a test suite that sets the bar for implementations to be accepted
   • Andrew: There should be some quality bar to provide some assurance that the projects are quality
   • Quality might not be as important as adoption. An excellent library with no users doesn't necessarily need to be in the community repo, but a less good library with lots of users does need community support
5. Next community meeting: Wednesday July 13th 3pm GMT / 11am EDT / 8am PDT | Thursday May 12th 1am AEDT (Convert to your time zone)

Recording

• 2022.06.08 (via Zenodo)

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