2020-10-27 Confluence upgrade and Atlassian Cloud hosting meeting notes

2020-10-27 Confluence upgrade and Atlassian Cloud hosting meeting notes

Date

Oct 27, 2020

Attendees

  • @Jessica Henderson

  • @Ruben Mercado

  • @Michael Oatley (Deactivated)

  • @Veronica Ferriss (Deactivated)

  • @Sherry Rodriguez (Deactivated)

  • @Will Harris

  • @Yi Zhang

  • @Sumanth Reddy

  • @Bharani Rajendran

  • @Gilbert Milone

Goals

  • Discuss Confluence upgrade to 7.7.4

    • Confluence Test upgrade from 6.15.9 to 7.7.4 scheduled for 10/28/20

    • Release Notes: Confluence Upgrade 6.15.9 to 7.7.4

  • Prepare questions for 11/5 meeting with Atlassian. 

Agenda

Agenda

Confluence upgrade tasks, roles and responsibilities

Evaluate versions

  • Application

  • Plug-in compatibility

  • System

Frequency

Create Confluence page with Release Notes

Testing 

Create Jira tickets for upgrade

  • Discuss Atlassian's roadmap to discontinue Server by February, 2024; migration to Cloud.

    • Cost

    • Functionality impact

    • Concerns

Action items

@Sumanth Reddy will notify Core Team when Confluence Test upgrade is complete. 
Once upgrade is complete, @Jessica Henderson and @Yi Zhang will connect to perform plug-in updates in Confluence Test environment; update plug-in documentation. 
Core Team to document/share questions for Atlassian in preparation for 11/5 meeting

Meeting Notes:

  • Confluence Testers identified: 

    • Steve Fletcher, Academic IT - API's

    • Sherry Rodriguez and Will Harris, Technical Support Center - JSD integration

    • Ashley Mattingly - Knowledge Base

    • Core Team

  • @Yi Zhang  to contact @Jessica Henderson & Core Team to discuss non-long term release upgrades, as needed.  Core Team will evaluate need, compatibility, available resources and schedule.  

  • Reminder to document Release Notes in Confluence

  • Reminder to create Jira tickets (for application and plug-in updates) in SDLC project space

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