About the Sunsetting Group

Owned by Kate Lynch
Feb 18, 2021
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Summary of Purpose

The Sunsetting Group develops strategies and helps coordinate efforts for retiring applications and infrastructure managed by PUL.

Deliverables

The group will formulate and document guidelines for sunsetting processes, including recommendations for:

  • Coordinating and communicating with stakeholders when their service is under consideration to be sunset.  This will include, as much as possible, determining at least one staff member at PUL who is the primary contact and/or product owner of each item listed in the service catalog.
  • Generalized sunset or migration evaluation procedures that can be undertaken for services and versions of software (for example, determining when a service needs to persist but its current application needs to be retired, evaluating all necessary uses of shared infrastructure that must be replaced, planning for upgrades of Solr, PostgreSQL, etc).
  • Develop procedures to be used throughout the software lifecycle to enable ease of adoption of sunset procedures, including identification of product owner(s), dependencies, etc.

The group will also continue work on the service catalog (current draft in Confluence), which will be used as the framework for centralizing our deliverables.  

Membership

Members of the group will represent the high-level considerations of Library Information Technology, Imaging and Metadata Services, as well as the priorities of Digital Repository and Discovery Services, Enterprise & User Services, and Library IT Operations.  

Core membership will consist of: 

The members will work closely with colleagues outside of this group to craft guidelines and improve them over time.