2021-08-18 Meeting notes

• Craig McNally updated the wiki to reflect membership changes
• Still outstanding items for Mark Veksler and Zak Burke

Jeremy Huff Zak Burke Marc Johnson Raman Auramau Ian Walls Craig McNally

Jakub Skoczen

Some initial progress was made, but has since grinded to a halt... 

• We need a volunteer to "own" this and drive the process.
  • Jeremy Huff to reach out to Ian Walls to see if he wants to be the champion.  If not, he will take it.
• Subgroup has agreed to find a time to meet this week.  Jeremy Huff to organize.

Philip Robinson Tod Olson

Quick follow-up → have you connected with Mike Gorrell? 

• Yes, the ball is rolling - slack channel, google doc, etc. exist
  • WOLFcon 2022 brainstorming document: 
  • WOLFcon needs for FOLIO - 2022
• Philip Robinson to organize a list of questions for the TC. 
  • Topics that are relevant now may not be when WOLFcon actually happens
    • Possibly defer the topic discussion until ~6mo prior to Sept. 2022 
  • Tod Olson /Philip Robinson will let us know when they are ready for feedback/input and we'll get it on the agenda.

All

Proposal (Marc Johnson/ VBar / Jakub Skoczen ):

• The S3 API is the protocol for external (non-Postgres) object storage in FOLIO and standard environment variables/configuration of an S3 server on a per module basis.
• The module implementation of object storage must conform to the FOLIO standards for tenant separation
  • The recommended standards will be referenced/pointed out by the tech leads.
    • e.g. how tenant separation should be handled, etc.
    • Jakub Skoczen will raise the topic with the tech leads
• Should the min.io client library be the recommended client as object storage choice agnostic library, but modules could also choose the native S3 implementation?
  • Yes.
• Should teams be allowed to store binary data in Postgres?  In some cases (amount of data is small, etc.)?
  • Yes.  If external object storage (not Postgres) is required, it must be S3.
  • Regardless of which is used, tenant separation still must be done. (x3)