2023-06-07 - Product Committee

5 min

• PSRAMKUMAR has sent out a note to WGs, will share an on wave 3 BB use cases update next week. Can they deposit the use cases on confluence instead of Gitbook

Rachel Lawson (Unlicensed)

• Rachel: There are two published versions 0.9 and 1.0

  • However, the navigation of 0.9 is different and might be confusing

  • Proposal: One action that we should not repeat in the future: unpublish 0.9

• Nico: How to prevent to use this argument of being not user friendly or others again?

• Rachel: Shift in content and structure such a major change that we should still go for it this time

• Taylor: Common practice to not keep all versions before 1.0

Wes Brown

• Wes: Next Release scheduled for Mid September

• Date:

  • 2023.09: +

  • 23Q3, 24Q1, 24Q3: +

  • 2023Q3, 2024Q1: ++

  • 2023.Q3, 2024.Q2

  • 2023.1, 2024.1, 2024.3: +

• Semver (ish)

  • Major.Minor.Patch

  • 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.1, 2.0

Comments

Steve: Is Q notation understandable and used everywhere?

Rachel: Exchanging Q with a dot might make it easier to read and understand

Taylor: vote naming convention driven by cadence? I think cadence should be driven by necessity. What new requirement necessitates a new version of GovStack? (Or rather where are those new requirements come from?)

Ramkumar: Backlog of release features is existing we didnt include in 1.0. Let’s create a pipline of features included into next versions. With such a backlog we could facilitate quarterly releases. Including certain buckets of features from the backlog.

Taylor: Will we keep the naming convention of V1.0 and use 2023.09 additionally?

Wes: I’m proposing to use one of the mentioned naming options instead of V.1.0. They would be the publication’s official name. It would be used for products, for publications etc.

Taylor: Releases usually have version numbers. Proposes to keep version information. Might be confusing for people, as the semantic? notation indicates the kind of changes.

Wes: Not sure whether the conventional naming needs to be applied to the GovStack context. What would be classified as a breaking change? The BB versioning would still be organised by the BB WGs.

Taylor: The versions of the BBs wouldn’t be reflected in the naming of the publication.

Wes: It would be confusing if the version of the BBs does not match the version number of the publication.

Sarah: We use the same format on the exchange YYYY.Q1

Rachel: dots are generally changed in web urls to something else. They are not needed

A decision will be made in the next PC meeting.

Wes Brown

5 min

Original Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NCBTHZT

As per the May-22 GC, this survey is being handled by the comms huddle

• Ayush: This survey uploaded on GovStack’s website for users to provide input and feedback on which surveys to prioritize

  • Wes: Some of the sectors listed on the Exchange and on survey monkey are missing from the link Ayush shared.

• Ayush will replicate sectors, and update website. (https://www.govstack.global/2023usecases/)

• Survey is good to go from Product committee!!!!!🚂

It will go live next week.

Rachel Lawson (Unlicensed)

• A feedback process needs to be put in place.

• Wes: Many of the process questions need to be addressed soon.

• Ramkumar: Create a centralized log for issues and decisions. The individual logs do not include the history and is not revisited.

• Wes: It is no longer under the specs because we wanted to see them in chronological order, you don not need to version it.

Jaume DUBOIS

Possible Mobile App Features

Jaume DUBOIS absent, to be discussed later

Jaume DUBOIS

Jaume DUBOIS absent, to be discussed later

PSRAMKUMAR

• PSRAMKUMAR has sent out a note to WGs, will share an on wave 3 BB use cases update next week. Can they deposit the use cases on confluence instead of Gitbook

  • Rachel Lawson (Unlicensed) the earlier they start with Gitbook the better because we then can record, recognise and reward work. Rachel can work with WGs if they need assistance.

  • Wes Brown Confluence may have a lower barrier to entry for WGs.

  • Proposal: Gitbook to be used

Margus Mägi

“EE GOV agency and they have an actual idea what security BB”

Wes Brown

5 min

Next Steps

1. Get feedback from survey

   1. Try to identify use cases that will highlight the value of the GovStack approach

2. Identify potential use cases in each sector

   1. Find volunteers to analyze sectors and identify potential use cases

3. Decide on which use cases to prioritize for the next (post-1.0) publication

4. Present use case in GC get it approved

5. Launch the campaign

GIZ, Estonia, Dial, ITU