Attendees:

  • Randall Leeds, Andrew Magliozzi, Robert Casties, Benjamin Young

Agenda:

  • Annotator & Apache
  • I Annotate recap
  • Status of Annotator 2.0
  • Annotator 2.0 Docs

Annotator & Apache:

  • Benefits
    • Access to a broader development community
    • Enterprise customers / user access
    • Licensing is simplified
    • Oversight of foundation lawyers
    • Indemnification for the committers
    • Trademark
  • Negatives
    • Lots of up-front work to apply and get accepted
      • Is this work we ought to be doing for our docs anyway?
  • Neutral
    • Forced diversity
      • Required that all three committers can’t be from the same company
    • Stringent reporting and transparency requirements
      • Vote-based releases
      • Question: what is the state of JIRA <-> GitHub and requirements there?

I Annotate Recap:

  • No talks. Only breakout sessions.
  • More discussions going on than at previous I Annotate
  • Hackathon was enjoyable
  • Alpha publish of 2.0

Annotator 2.0 Status:

Action Items:

  • Apache
  • Annotator 2.0
    • Share work on the Auth Plugin on the mailing list (Robert)
    • Reiterate call for Annotator 2.0 Alpha feedback (Andrew)
      • Point people again to our “Upgrade Guide”
    • Switch Read The Docs to point at 2.0 and link it back to 1.2.x (Randall)
    • New anchoring options
    • Port plugin(s) (Robert, anyone?)