Tripal Governance

Why? We are getting pretty big and are receiving many contributions (great!). With these contributions we want to ensure the integrity of Tripal is maintained, while also ensuring everyone has a say in the direction of the project :-) We also want to coordinate funding and ensure we are working collaboratively and as a unified community.

This is an open agenda meeting.

• Thank You

  • PAG Codefest Committee:  Stephen, Ethy, Meg

  • PAG Workshop:  Bradford, Valentin, Meg

• Reminders

  • Join Tripal Slack Workspace to ask questions.

• Summary of CodeFest coding groups work/accomplishments

  • Chado Group

    • New release/migration paradigm for how changes are made to Chado and new releases are bundled/created, using flyway.

    • Continuous integration checking for integrity of schema.

    • New (platform agnostic) Docker container for just Chado.

1. PAG Events

   1. Dec 3rd.  Last day to update abstract text

   2. Will let speakers know if they will be invited to give a talk at the workshop at PAG.

   3. Thursday-Friday Jan 10-11th.  Codefest + User's Meeting

      1. Goal: more coding than discussion

      2. Current Topics:

         1. Topic 1: Tripal v4 Python Proof of Concept.  Leader: Stephen Ficklin

Reminders

• Previous meeting notes here: http://tripal.info/meetings/users/summary

• Consider adding your modules into the Tripal GitHub organization.

  • You can make your own team in the github repo.  Ask stephen/lacey/meg for permission to join the Tripal organization.

1. Upcoming Events

   1. Tripal v3 stable release -- Sept 3rd.

   2. Tripal PAG Workshop committee requesting abstracts this Fall.

   3. Tripal v4 discussion at September's meeting.

2. Support/Involvement

1. Tripal v3.0 full release imminent!  -- just working on some last minute fixes and testing.

2. Future of Tripal Discussion

   1. Andrew Farmer:

      1. Would like to continue to integrate with Tripal community and co-ordinate and co-develop and use what others develop.

      2. Faced with the problem: don't want to build websites that are tied into a single framework technology.

Reminders & Announcements

• New meeting time!  Tuesdays!  Same time/regularity.

• Next meeting: November 6th. (US Election Day)

  • Check if we want to postpone it a week.

• PAG is coming up!

  • Please submit abstracts to the Tripal session organizers bradford and Valentin!

Communication

1. Official Design Spec

   1. Google Doc

   2. Slack Channel for discussion - There is a #tripal4 channel.
      https://join.slack.com/t/tripal-project/shared_invite/enQtNDExNDU1NzUxOTI3LTNlOTg1MTNjZGQ1NjRmNGQxMWRjOGVjN2IwMjQyOTc2ODZlYWM2OTQxM2Y1ZWM1MmFkNWJhOGEwN2RkZjdkNGU