October 7, 2020

Time/Place

This meeting is held virtually via Zoom, with an open channel for chatter on Slack. Anyone is welcome to join. Here is the info:

• Time: 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time US (UTC-5)
• Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97345581392
• Join us on the Slack Islandora 8 Channel https://islandora.slack.com/archives/CM5PPAV28

Attendees

• Danny Lamb
• Melissa Anez
• Alan Stanley
• Jordan Dukart
• Eli Zoller ⭐ 💪
• Don Richards
• Willow Gillingham
• Alexander O'Neill
• Natkeeran
• Adam Vessey
• Rosie Le Faive
• Seth Shaw
• Hertzel Armengol
• Nguyen Huynh
• Mark Jordan

Agenda

1. How do we put complex data into a simple container? I need your help solving Islandora Workbench's taxonomy term problem.

• Mark Jordan: question of how to import/migrate in taxonomy terms where there are multiple fields (ie for linked agents or even just subjects which have term names and URIs)
• Mark will host a future call to tackle this issue
• tension between a simple CSV achieving complex data
• also interest in having input from the users group
• watch for incoming doodle poll

2. Issue Roundup
   1. https://github.com/Islandora/documentation/issues/1634
   • needs to be cherry-picked from dev to main
   • point release of the installer
   • Rosie will do the PR
   2. https://github.com/Islandora/documentation/issues/1636
   • mark will take on
   • will need an update hook in islandora_defaults
   • questions about whether or not updating field definitions require update hooks
   • we're telling people they can modify islandora_defaults, so its hard to say what people would want
   • discussion to be continued
   3. https://github.com/Islandora/documentation/issues/1481
   • still a problem
   • thought it was a FITS problem before, which was fixed. but its still happening
   • could be due to wrapping all of the requests into a transaction
   • mark to try commenting the transaction part out and see if it resolves it
   • also related to another ticket to replace our custom endpoint with the drupal provided one
3. Open PRs
   1. https://github.com/Islandora/documentation/pull/1635
   • work on docker instructions
   • related isle prs: https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/isle-dc/pull/116 and https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/isle-dc/pull/114
   • seth tested on MAC and it ran, rosie to test as well
   • need someone on windows to test as well
   2. https://github.com/Islandora/islandora/pull/800
   • for the weight field, wanted to be 1+
   • fix for reordering members
   • mark will test