Tech Call Agenda - 2025-12-29

[cdils]

Meeting Purpose: Deep-dive, hands-on technical work & implementation for FAIR.

Audience: All technical contributors (not just committee members).

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Meeting details

• Meeting is December 29, 2025 – 17:30 UTC (see it in your time zone)
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[toderash]

2025 Review & 2026 Roadmap Priorities

1. What unfinished items (unfilled feature promises or bugfixes) remain from 2025?
2. Planning for Connect 1.3 & Beacon next-release

[Ipstenu]

We triaged and cleaned up a few bugs

[joedolson]

1.2.2 - Brief Retrospective

[Ipstenu]

Outcome:

• We need a better testing doc
• We need a better merging strategy
• We need more unit tests

[Ipstenu]

New Tickets made:

Chore: Create TESTING.MD to document release testing process

• 🧹 Chore: Create TESTING.MD to document release testing process fair-plugin#403

Chore: Determine Merge Strategy

• 🧹 Chore: Determine Merge Strategy fair-plugin#404

Unit Testing: Establish Robust Unit Testing

• 🛠️ Unit Testing: Establish Robust Unit Testing fair-plugin#405

Chore: Improve Browser check admin notification design (NOT regex)

• 🧹 Chore: Improve Browser check admin notification design (NOT regex) fair-plugin#406