Web Advisory Committee Minutes - October 20, 2021

Attendance (47/74)

Donald Duff-McCracken (Chair), Melissa Holst (Secretary) Amanda Vos, Andre Gignac, Alexis Condotta, Andrea Jennings, Andrew Smith, Anar Jahangirli, Beth Cotter, Bernice Ma, Bruce Cmapbell (Guest), Charloette Armstrong, Chris Francis, Daniella Cross, Danielle Jeanneault, Elizabeth Rogers, Erica Clement-Goudy, Greg McIntyre, Greg Smith, George Choy, Graham Faulkner, Herbert Balagtas, Iva Badjari, Janice Cook, Jennifer Halcrow, Jessica Barch, Jen Konkle, Joe Kwan, Kathryn Fedy, Kayla Snyder, Kevin Paxman, Liam Morland, Marlon Griffith, Michael Tjendra, Michelle Douglas-Mills, Nick Di Benedetto, Pratik Patel, Nancy Schnarr, Sami Iskandar, Sarah Forgrave, Tasha Glover, Trevor Ridgeway, Tom Graham, Tara Hillis, Traci Dow, Troy Grandy, Tom Cauduro,

Absent:

Amy Meredith, Adriann Kennedy, Alyssa Clarkson, Annaka Willemsen, Cassie Bechard, Dawn Charlton, Derek Leung, Elizabeth Kleisath, Grace Wong Chong, Isaac Morland, Jason Greatrex, Jay Mielke, Jennifer Gillies, Jim Johnston, Jodi Szimanski, Lannois Carroll-Woolery, Lathangi Ganesharatnam, Laurel Forbes, Lisa Brackenridge, Lori Suess, Marta Bailey, Martin LeBlanc, Melanie Scott, Pratik Patel, Natasha Jennings, Pavol Chvala, Rebecca Graper, Ryan Lahti, Stephanie Longway, Stephanie Koerne, Wendy Pilpott

Approval of the Minutes of Previous Meeting

The minutes from the previous meeting were accepted as distributed.

Business Arising

Welcome back Kayla Snyder

Web Strategy Update (Tom Graham) 

  • Presentation slides can be found here

WCMS Training/Support Update (Andrea Jennings )

WCMS Technical Update (Kevin Paxman)

  • Since the last WAC, WCMS 3.0.5 was released
  • WCMS 3.0.6 is expected later this week
    • Release notes coming soon
    • Highlights: catalog search pages, form theming, site and local footer theming, high image re-use fix
  • WCMS 3.1.0 is likely coming sometime next week, which should be 3.0.6 but with Drupal 9
  • Focus points in the current sprint include:
    • Begin work on authentication-required forms
    • Continue implementation of the Service content type
    • Begin implementation of scheduled publishing
    • Document how to implement the Bibliography content type
  • Interviewing shortly for dev QA coops for the winter term

WCMS 3 Project Update (Bruce Campbell and Greg Smith)

  • Presentation slides can be found here
  • Alot of questions were brought foward;
    • How does this impact the stakeholders
    • moving foward would like to see more transparency and communicaton
    • WAC members more involved in this process, as we do have alot of knowledge
    • What is the pace moving forward, how do we plan moving forward
    • If content types are ready can we run through migration
    • Seeking central funding for co-op's moving foward
  • Bruce indicated that there will more converstation in the future when it comes to all the concerns that were brought foward.
  • Will report back to the committee in November.

Other Business

None.

Meeting Adjournment

Adjournmetn 4:49pm