Summary as of Wednesday 3rd June 2026

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Completed Sprint 169(Xingu river ray)

Attribution:Photo by and (C)2007 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man), CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons

Interesting facts about Xingu river ray: They are fresh water fish, venomous but not aggressive.

Completed this Sprint: 169(Xingu river ray)

1) Focused investigation into how to update docx in pages/projects and refactor 2) completed the update of standard import and export authorisations 3) Revised NP flow - skills and experience 4) Tech debt update: acuris - implement unsupported aws-es-connection: asl-search 5) Completed an updated to the Privacy notice on ASPeL 6) Updated ‘fate of animals’: deselecting “Used in other projects” now triggers a warning pop-up 7) Investigated issue where protocols showed new comments in historical versions 8) Named person - Minor fixes 9) Other fixes to revise NP flow - skills and experience

Bugs done or closed this Sprint

bugs fixed 03062026

New Sprint 170(Yak)

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Our goals for Sprint 170(Yak)

Development: 1)Complete standard protocol Proof of Concept for Standard Protocol4 2)complete spike for Non Technical Summary(NTS.docx) bulk download 3)complete outstanding Named Person work, currently more than 90% done 4)complete all Category E PIL work on current board 5)Resolve comments display issues on ASPeL

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