TAG Meeting 2015-12-02

Erik Gomez
Josh Allen
Josh Klein
Don Dailey
Ron Engels (Denver PS, guest)
Mark Reichert
Mark Walls
Chris Moffat
Eric Jansson

The agenda included 2 topics:

The TAG reviewed the proposed Roster API that had been sent out prior to the meeting. the review, the following items came up:

• A general need for dates for entry and exit of students and staff to sections and schools. These were seen as useful for use cases where applications wanted to account for a student or staff who had just joined or moved sections. Examples raised included:

• Another concern raised was how composite APIs might be affected when we have multi-year support in the ODS.

• Another suggestion was making sure that the roster API could provide indications if the section was a "homeroom" section. This is important for use cases like meal assignments and other operational scenarios.

• The TAG discussed that the API would use internal GUIDs, but also use natural keys when there was a single ones. The idea was that using natural keys composed of multiple elements results in an overly-complex API. There was general support for this direction.

• One input was that certifications should be automated this over time, with the long-term goal of being part of a continuous integration process.

• The concern about how to make sure that Ed-Fi certification was adopted and the field certifications were additive. One piece of input was to design the automated tooling such that it can be used - or serve as infrastructure - for field certifications.

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