Meeting Minutes for 12/03/2024

Demo of new features, bug fixes, and documentation for the upcoming release (Minute 2:33)  

• Release Notes

Discussion Topics

• Welcoming Clearview Library District as our newest discovery partner (10.15.24) (Minute 00:25)
  • Clearview went live with Pika on October 15th.
  • Clearview is a new integration for the SD team with the Polaris Integrated Library System.
• Marmot will be reaching out soon to review and prioritize feature requests for Pika (Minute 00:57)
  • Marmot took a year off from feature requests to address some tech debt. 
  • Now that the year is over, the team will jump in with some feature development, reviewing and prioritizing older feature requests.
  • You will see a survey similar to past ones but with more options.
• Current 5-year plan concluding (Minute 2:00)
  • A new 5-year plan will be prepared throughout 2025 

Discussion of development priorities for the next release (Minute 34:26)

• Sierra Home Pickup Library development started
  • Pascal should be able to complete this by the end of the year and have it ready for release at the beginning of 2025.
• Marmot Islandora Update vis a vis Pika
  • The connector technology in Islandora has been completely transformed. As Born Digital works on this, we must rework all the integrations with Pika to replicate the current display.
  • This is a good opportunity to improve Pika for digital archive integration.
  • Please send any suggestions or improvements to Pascal, and he will incorporate them into the integration work.
• Upgrading to PHP8 
  • The team is working on upgrading the backend from PHP7 to PHP8
  • The team's upgrade is progressing well, providing a clearer timeline by the end of the year for when they can put the upgrade into production.

The next meeting is Tuesday,  March 4, 2025