Developers Meeting on Weds, March 30, 2011

Agenda

• First 20+ minutes: JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-756
  • We will continue "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-756)

• Congrats on 1.7.1 Release!
  • Released a little late (Monday), cause of misconfiguration of a few pom.xml files (which caused initial attempts at release to fail). These have been resolved now.

• Next Release: 1.8.0? 1.8.0 Beta1 in June?

• GSoC 2011 Updates & Discussion
  • Still looking for Ideas & Mentors! Student Application Process has begun (deadline: April 8)!
    • DSpace Ideas Page: DSpace Summer of Code Ideas
  • Do we want to begin reviewing these ideas together?

• Reminder: GSoC General Reminders:
  • New GSoC Mailing Lists this year (shared with Fedora & DuraCloud):
    • duraspace-gsoc : Public list (anyone can join), but mostly for Mentor & Student discussions, public feedback, cross-project collaboration opportunities, etc.
    • duraspace-gsoc-mentors : Private List (Mentors/Admins only) for GSoC administrative purposes only
  • Important Dates (full timeline)
    • March 28 - April 8: Student Application period
    • April 22: Deadline for Ranking student applications & finalizing projects
    • May 23: GSoC Begins
    • August 22: GSoC Ends

• Reminder: OR11 DSpace Developers Meeting Info at DevMtg 2011-06-06 - OR11 Meeting
  • Please Sign up if you are planning to attend!

• Other topics?
  • Committment / Official Vote on DSpace Services:
    • See this 'dspace-devel' email thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05726.html
  • Do we want to schedule a meeting to go over proposed Modularization / Refactoring work in near future?
    • Restructure Trunk Projects
    • Refactoring the DSpace Domain Model
    • Others listed under Development Proposals

Topics in the Waiting...

• Topics which are still on the "back burner" (which need someone to lead a "Special Topic" meeting around them)
  • 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.
    • UPDATE: Jeff Trimble will lead a discussion on this in April or May. Still working on date.
  • More discussion of Proposed RoadMap to 2.0 before OR11
    • In meantime, feel free to forward thoughts on to Tim or everyone (via dspace-devel or dspace-commit).

Meeting Notes

JIRA Review, 1.7.1, GSoC Project Ideas Reviews, 1.8.0 as next release

• JIRA Review, ended with DS-764
• Congrats to all on 1.7.1
• 1.8.0 Decided will be next release (unless major issue pops up in 1.7.1).
  • Developers should now be working primarily out of SVN Trunk. We will only revisit 1.7.x branch if we need to resolve a major issue in 1.7.1
• Quick Review of all GSoC Ideas posted at: DSpace Summer of Code Ideas
  • See transcript below for full discussion.

Meeting Transcript

• Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2011-03-30