# April 21, 2022
In Attendance
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- Present: Marc, Alec, Dulip, Ronald, Rick, Davin
- Regrets:
Quick Updates
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### What have you been working on lately?
* Rick - University of Pittsburgh
* Library background; moved into IT
* Working on upgrading our plugins for 3.3.
* Dulip
* [Rosetta](https://github.com/withanage/rosetta) Longterm Archiving Plugin for OJS 3.2.1 published (Unit Tests, github CI/CD)
* Grant applications (1 submiited, 2 to go)
* Gitlab project mapping (Customer, Hosting, Dev, Grants)
* Similar to Travis - Yaml configuration, multiple platform setups, CI testing
* Maybe a good option alongside Travis and Github Actions
* Davin
* JATS export via OAI in the Coalition Publica context (Canada)
* OJS instances with OAI issues (datestamp = now, duplicate identifiers...)
* Ronald
* Jats/Bits XML publishing workflows (mostly with pandoc)
* grant proposal
* Berlin Universities Publishing project
* Alec
* SWORD plugin review and comprehensive improvements
* LUCENE plugin for 3.3.0 needs testing/feedback!
* Github Projects Beta exploration
* Multirepository.
* Sprints
* Finland registration about to start -- June 15/16
* Looking at Business Intelligence FOSS products for report generation from SQL without SQL knowledge (C*gnos alternatives) -- if anyone knows about these, please let me know!
* Marc
* Quick start - upgrade guide.
* Forum support
* Publishing Service portal site (drupal)
* TC communication about GA
### Highlight of the month: ###
- Knowing Google's practices and with GA declared illegal in some EU countries: should we keep the plugin in the gallery?
- Proposals:
- Remove the plugin from the gallery.
- Add a warning in the plugin description saying that it is illegal in the EU and also warn that it will no longer be updated.
- Move from plugin specific to "custom header" documentation.
- Do nothing.
- ...
- To take in consideration:
- https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/google-analytics-update-ga4/72425
- TC:
- General principles for PKP plugins?
- Hard to make general decisions based on legality. What jurisdiction?
- PKP Hosting needs this plugin for clients; if PKP doesn't maintain it, Hosting probably will.
- Second option seems best to the TC.
- Plugin gallery xml. Visible before installation; can be updated quickly. PR would go to: https://github.com/pkp/plugin-gallery
- Plugin description. Would need to ship with plugin.
- Business Intelligence FOSS products for report generation from SQL without SQL knowledge (OLAT tools / Report generating)
- https://widestage.com/
- https://www.lincebi.com
- https://www.knowage-suite.com
- https://superset.apache.org
- Analytics workgroup?
- No advances.
- Polling/feature request additions to PKP support forum
- Related with the GitHub Projects work Alec-Bozana-Nate are doing
- Could be a good way of capturing/articulating perspectives and priorities from different stakeholders.
- Perhaps also feature requests from the community?
- Perhaps an area for items that aren't suitable for PKP to write, but might be grantable?
- Transparency is important even if resources aren't available yet
- Alec to present next month with possibilities for representing perspectives in Github projects.
- Technical Committee supports the addition of a voting tool in the support forum for feature requests.
Old Business
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Analytics workgroup?
Proposals to facilitate support work:
- Polling/feature request additions to PKP support forum
- Knowledge base tool
Versions page
Question of the Month
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### Determined in advance for open discussion
Other topics
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- How to communicate supported versions? (life cycle)
- Examples:
- PHP: https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php
- Ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
- Debian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history
- NodeJS: https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/
- Oxygen: https://www.oxygenxml.com/eol.html
- Oracle: https://itechbrand.com/oracle-12c-end-of-life/
- redHat: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata
- Microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/servers/manage/current-branch-versions-supported
- End of Life: https://endoflife.date/blender
- versio: https://www.versio.io/product-release-end-of-life-eol-Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%20Linux-Red%20Hat.html
- Requirements:
- visual.
- automatic.
- precise.
- ???
- How to communicate PKP apps requirements?
- Proposal:
- Table of php versions and plugins?
| OJS | PHP | plugins |
| ------- | --- | ------- |
| 2.x | 5.6 | ?? |
| 3.1 | 7.3 | ?? |
| 3.2 | 7.4 | ?? |
| 3.3 | 8.0 | ?? |
Next Meeting
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Third Thursday of the month: 8am Pacific