Developers Meeting on Weds, April 28, 2010

Agenda

Announcements
- GSoC selections announced.
- Changes to Documentation Workflow (Mark Diggory)
  - Using Confluence as the Documentation System. Requires a process for cleanup and markup effort to target pages for inclusion in "the docs", and to keep content from getting stale, outdated, misleading.
DSpace 1.6.1 (Kim Shepherd)
- DC-Date related bugs – values out of the range and date format inconsistencies.
- Update and other bugs that need more eyes
- 1.6.1 Open Issues: 1.6.1 Version in JIRA
JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-517 (and getting as far as we can).
- Search for recent JIRA Issues

GSoC Projects announced, discussion of numerous DC-Date related bugs

Meeting run by Peter Dietz, as Tim Donohue was unavailable.
Google Summer of Code Projects Announced:
- See DSpace Summer of Code2 for a list/summary of all accepted DSpace GSoC projects. Congrats to our four students this year!
- Encourage students (and mentors) to meet and evaluate each others ideas on a weekly basis, possibly hold weekly meetings in #duraspace IRC?
Review of DC-Date related bugs:
- http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-401
- http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-497 (robin has fixed, waiting commit)
- http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-553
- http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-554
- Proposal to move to using XMLGregorianCalendar – likely will not be ready for 1.6.1, rather would be in 1.7.0

Seemed to be a general consensus around moving towards XMLGregorianCalendar. However, this would be a larger change, likely meaning it would need to be re-scheduled for 1.7.0 rather than 1.6.1