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title: spring cleaning march 2023 preparation meeting
tags: spring cleaning, meeting notes, maintainers
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# Spring Cleaning Organisation

## Summary

When: Week of March 6-10, 2023
- Kick off meeting: March 6
- Wrap up meeting: March 10

Who: nf-core/maintainers

Where: gather.town

## Pre spring clean

- Check availability of maintainers
- Clean up #maintainers to only include people who want to be involved
- Poll + deadline
- Prepare/schedule meeting(s)
- Propose dates/times. 3:00 PM?
- Afternoons?
- Have clear guidance for spring clean
- Main conversations: #maintainers
- #springcleaning2023-group-[xyz]
- Descriptions for tasks
- Describe what should be done and why

## Kick off Meeting (Recored and shared on maintainers)

- Review purpose
- Check tasks
- Assign groups
- Make group slack channels
- Break out rooms for groups

## During - Groups

1. nf-core/modules repo cleanup
- Stale issues(?)
- Stale branches
- Stale PRs
- Standardise metadata tags formatting
- Clean up old subworkflows to match current guidelines
2. nf-core/configs repo cleanup
- Stale issues(?)
- Stale branches
- Stale PRs
3. nf-core/documentation
- Reviewing for DSL1 reference (e.g., tutorials)
- Update references latest version of Nextflow(?)
- Reference old Nextflow version for DSL1
- Checking tutorials works (installation, development etc.)
- Update links to Nextflow trainings
- or remove
- Check trouble shootin
4. Core Team Tasks
- Archiving pipelines?
- Cleaning up slack/github groups
- Updating website with maintainers infer
- Clean up old/stale slack channels
5. Hackathon preparation
- Prepare project board (tools, documentation...)
6. nf-core/pipelines
- Check tags: all pipeline should have _useful_ tags (whatever that means...)
- Check all nf-core pipelines are on nf-co.re

Backup: Pipelines
- Branches?
- Issues
- PRs
- Clean up project boards

## Post spring clean

- Bytesize to summarise
- Review what worked well and what didn't to improve for next time

## Next time:

Include principal pipeline devs, so they can reserve time for TLC of their pipelines + their project boards