Developers Meeting on Weds, February 23, 2011

Agenda

• First 20+ minutes: JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-682
  • This week we will attempt a "Quick Review" format (2 minutes per issue, with extensions only as necessary), as we need to try to review JIRA issues more quickly. (More details on "Quick Review" format at JIRA Cleanup Sessions)
  • Search for all Unresolved Issues (since DS-682)

• Reviewing the next DCAT Request (based on Proposal for a New "Feature Request" Review Process)
  • DS-638- -check files on input for viruses, and verify file format (DCAT relevancy/interest vote: +4)
    • Full DCAT Discussion of DS-638

• Revisiting 1.7.1 Release
  • We are starting to see some 1.7.0 issues coming in, that we may want to fix sooner rather than later:
    • Currently 31 Unresolved issues affecting 1.7.0 (and 9 issues that have already been resolved on Trunk and not yet released)
  • Some more important issues include:
    • DS-785 : SWORD deposits fail when ingest events are fired if Discovery event consumer is configured
    • DS-821 : AbstractMETSIngester creates an item before adding descriptive metadata (Causing incomplete emails to sent out when deposits occur via SWORD)
    • DS-675 : XMLUI doesn't start if the error level in the log4j.properties is set to DEBUG
  • Do we feel it's time to schedule a 1.7.1 release?

• NEXT WEEK (MARCH 2): Tim will be out-of-office. Any volunteers to lead next week's meeting, or lead a special topic discussion?

• Next "Special Topics" Meeting??
  • Discuss improving how DSpace handles Metadata (From past meetings discussions, this seems popular). Several ideas mentioned recently:
    • Updating to current DCMI standards: DS-805
    • Creating a new "dspace" internal usage schema (for administrative, or non-DC metadata)? Formalize the "dc" schema to be strictly valid QDC/DC?
    • Metadata on all DSpace objects (not just Items)
  • Discuss forming a "Documentation Management Team"? Or reworking our procedures for managing/reviewing/approving Docs on the Wiki.

Meeting Notes

JIRA Reviews, Scheduling 1.7.1, DCAT Discussion of DS-638

• JIRA Quick Reviews. Ended with DS-700
• Discussion of DCAT's recommendations for DS-638:
  • DS-638- -check files on input for viruses, and verify file format (DCAT relevancy/interest vote: +4)
  • Full DCAT Discussion of DS-638
• Decided to Schedule 1.7.1 tentatively for March 25. See DSpace Release 1.7.1 Notes for more info.

Meeting Transcript

• Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2011-02-23