Annotator Community Call Notes (5/27/15)
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?
- Lots of up-front work to apply and get accepted
- 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?
- Forced diversity
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:
- Robert Casties released a port of the auth plugin
- Next steps: get more people using it!
- document issues / bugs
- Put out a call for feedback!!
- Blocker: Highlighter code
Action Items:
- Apache
- Propose license change on the Mailing list (Benjamin)
- Apache license
- openannotation/annotator#395
- Propose Incubate on Mailing list (Andrew)
- Propose license change on the Mailing list (Benjamin)
- 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
- Revive openannotation/annotator#452 (Anyone??)
- Write examples (Randall)
- Port plugin(s) (Robert, anyone?)