WZDx Specification Subgroup Meeting Notes, 2019 08 28

Virtual Attendees

• Derald Dudley – BTS
• Ashley Spurlock, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Polly Okunieff, ICF
• Leah Pickett, Volpe Center
• Heidi Guenin, Trillium Solutions & MobilityData IO
• David Craig, General Motors
• Skylar Knickerbocker, Iowa State University
• Mahsa Ettefagh, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Serge Beaudry- Ver-Mac
• Tomas Guerra, OZ Engineering, Phoenix AZ
• Craig Moore: Seattle DOT
• Siva Narla, ITE
• Indraneel Purohit, SharedStreets
• Aaron Antrim, Trillium Solutions & MobilityData IO
• Chuck Felice - Utah Dept. of Transportation
• Chris Stapleton, DeepMap
• Kellen Shain, Noblis
• Michelle Boucher, KCUS (Consultant to MassDOT)
• Charles Meyer, Colorado DOT
• Rashmi Brewer, Minnesota DOT
• Alex Demisch, San Francisco MTA
• Mike Davidson, PA Turnpike Commission
• Jacob Brady, KCUS (Consultant to MassDOT)
• Kali Fogel - RIITS: Regional Integration of Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Dan Michalec, Woolpert
• sammy ghorbanian, uber atg
• Neil Boudreau, MassDOT
• Theresa Gaisser, Regional transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
• Charlotte Tao, Lyft
• Faisal Saleem, Maricopa County DOT
• David Rush, VA DOT
• Joseph Kuenzi, OR DOT
• Dan Farley PennDOT

Presentation Slides can be accessed [here]

Purpose and Intended Outcomes:

• Introduce co-chairs clarify their responsibilities
• Provide best practices and tips on submitting issues and pull requests on GitHub – with examples
• Co-chairs prioritization parameters and process
• Formalize subgroups approach to reviewing and voting on potential updates to spec

Agenda

• Sign in and Welcome
• Co-Chairs Introduction
• Iowa WZDx Data Feed Demo
• Pull Request/Issues Best Practices
• Group Discussion –Pull Request/Issues
• Governance
• Action Items and Next Steps
• NOFO Announcement

Discussion Summary

The following four Subgroup Co-chairs were introduced to members:

• Skylar Knickerbocker – Research Engineer at Iowa State University, Institute of Transportation
• Craig Moore – Data and GIS Manager at Seattle DOT, Street Use Division
• David Craig – Autonomous Driving Mapping Solutions at General Motors
• Serge Beaudry – VP of Products at Ver-Mac Co-Chairs main responsibilities are:
• Facilitate/manage/guide subgroup conversation
• Prioritize pull requests and specification changes for discussion and voting
• Review subgroup milestones and follow up on action items with specific members

Best Practices to submitting issues and opening pull requests on GitHub: Best practices from General Transit Feed Specification were shared with the members along with a variety of existing examples. Members were encourage to consider following tips as they start their engagement on GitHub:

• One specific topic per pull request
• Extended description/justification of the proposed changes
• Provide reference links and detail modification to the spec
• Active discussion and frequent update by advocate

Proposed Prioritization Ranking by Co-chairs: The Co-chairs explained that issues and pull requests will get prioritized and scored based on their complexity, priority, difficulty to implement, capability to collect/provide data element, immediate use cased, etc. Subgroup members were encouraged to submit issues and pull requests with enough details for the co-chairs to be able to prioritize them appropriately. Members were also informed that issues/pull request templates will soon be developed for their use - everyone is able to submit issues/pull requests at any time.

Governance: A step by step specification amendment process was covered in the governance section of the slides. This document will be made available on the main GitHub Wiki page for the Subroup's reference.

Action Items and Next Steps

• Subgroup members to submit issues/pull request based on presented governance/tips by SEP 11th
• Subgroup members Provide feedback/solutions on existing issues/pull requests
• Co-chairs to provide template for submitting issues/pull requests