2020-11-03 Meeting

Owned by Kate Lynch
Last updated: Feb 18, 2021Version comment
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Attendees:

Notes: 

  • Initial meeting to discuss feasibility of a Library IT Sunsetting Group
  • Devices to hopefully sunset:
    • LibDBServer -> a little planning now might make sunsetting in the future a little easier
    • LibServer64
    • Meridian (this might be the most at-risk)
    • Supplemental Catalog
    • Kevin has a catalog somewhere of miscellaneous services that we could retire or port to other systems. 
  • We are doing our best to work with stakeholders on an ad hoc basis and are generally doing a good job, but we could always have a group that helps coordinate this.
  • Having an owner for every service so you at least have someone you could go to, in order to learn more about an application, would be great.
  • Working group:
    • Define processes, work on the service catalog
  • Are there pieces of infrastructure that we’re looking to retire sooner than later?
    • Solr 7 boxes should be updated to 8.
    • Some servers still using the old database clusters.
  • Making sure we know who the owners are, and that they’re notified when something is migrated or turned off.
  • What applications are going away with Alma?  Would be good to get a confirmation that this is going away.
  • Looking forward to shutting down PULFA and PUDL 
  • Good for this group to be a potential consultant for content migration projects.
    • Checking with stakeholders for what is acceptable strategy, how to migrate.  
  • Next steps:
    • Goals:
      • Unified service catalog
      • Identify an owner for each thing without getting bogged down in application, service, server-level ownership.
      • Develop a sunset or migration evaluation procedure agnostic of applications
      • Figure out what applications/services are being replaced with Alma.
    • Stephanie
    • Esmé
    • Kevin
    • Kate
    • Others on an as-needed basis (there will be a lot of this collaboration)
    • Draft a summary of work, make sure JS is aware but we don’t need to be a Steering Group.
    • Sunsetting Group 
    • Plan for kickoff in early December ASAP.
    • Initial team:
  • Service Catalog