Attendance (35)
Don Duff-McCracken (Chair), Melissa Benjamin (Notetaker) Andrea Jennings, Allison Wells, Amanda Vos, Bernice Ma, Carlos Saavedra, Charlotte Armstrong, Christine Gillis Bilton, Daniella Cross, Danielle Jeanneault, Elizabeth Rogers, Erica Clement-Goudy, George Choy, Greg Smith, Harminder Phull, Israel Cefrin da Silva, Iva Badjari, Janice Cooke, Jessica Barch, Jennifer Halcrow, Joe Kwan, Kevin Paxman, Lannois Carroll-Woolery, Maria Morrone, Marlon Griffith, Michael Tjendra, Michelle Douglas-Mills, Nancy Schnarr, Nick Di Bendetto, Sarah Forgrave, Sarah Cooper, Tasha Glover, Tom Graham.
Minutes of 21 December 2022 and Business Arising
The minutes were accepted as distributed. No business arising.
Chair's Remarks (Don Duff-McCracken)
- Thanked everyone for his time as chair to this committee, will still be a part of WAC just in a different capacity, it has been a pleasure to work with everyone.
- Thanks to everyone for their nominations and happy to announce that Tom Graham was introduced and welcomed as the new Chair for a two-year term.
WCMS 3 Development update (Kevin Paxman)
- WCMS 3.2.2 was released just before the winter break. Full release notes are on the Web Resources site, but it was a hotfix release for an issue with the display of contacts that shipped with 3.2.1, so there were only a couple of theming-related changes.
- Focus points in the current sprint include:
- Fixing issues with syncing profiles from contacts
- Theming for background options for sections
- Shipping publication reference (BibCite) functionality!
- WCMS 3.2.3 is expected to ship sometime in the next couple of weeks, once the publication reference work has passed final QA testing
- Note that migration from WCMS 2’s bibliography content type to publication references is expected to ship at a later date
Drupal core security release today – minor enough that we will just ship with our next release
WCMS Training & Support (Sarah Cooper)
The WCMS team has launched their new WCMS project in Jira allowing clients to easily submit questions and requests all in one place!
How to use this portal
- Navigate to the WCMS help portal.
- Select the appropriate option for your request.
- Include the subject line in the Summary field.
- Complete the associated form and submit.
Course statistics:
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- 57 completions for WCMS 2 for Content maintainers
- 43 completions for WCMS 3 Fundamentals
- 2 completions for WCMS 2 Site Managers and 1 completion for WCMS 2 Web forms
- 2 completions for WCMS 3 Web forms
- 105 total
WCMS 3 Migration Update (Charlotte Armstrong)
342 sites on WCMS 3 (+42 since last WAC meeting on Dec. 21)
724 sites on WCMS 2. 561 FDSU, 31 Publication, 82 Single page sites, 50 Conference sites.
6 co-ops are full-speed ahead with remediations. We’ve already remediated 4 sites and are working on another one today, with more in the queue.
Reminders
- When submitting migration requests, if you have a preferred date for your site’s migration, please include that in the note section of the form. The more notice we receive, the greater your chances of being in the queue at your desired time.
- If your plan is to do a site overhaul while the migrated site is still in staging, submit a spreadsheet or list of pages you are working on so that we don’t remediate them.
- Site launches are still Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Remediation training workshop is Thursday afternoons. We need at least one week’s notice to register. This training is just for staff and co-op students that will be remediating a site. If our WCMS co-ops will be remediating your site, you do not need to attend the workshop.
- Reminder that our site creation, launch, and migration pause will regularly be the last week of the term and the first week of the co-op term. The upcoming pause is April 24 – May 5 with migrations/launches/site creations beginning again the week of May 8
Kudos
- Elizabeth from Faculty of Arts for migrating a few more departmental sites and sending in the migration request early so we could use them to help train our co-op team!
- Jessica Barch with the help of Tom, Bernice and their team at UR for the Off-Campus Housing site redesign in WCMS 3. Great example of collaboration to create great information architecture and UX in WCMS 3!
Other Business
Adjournment
Adjournment at 3:40 pm