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# 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
