Developers Meeting on Weds, April 6, 2011

Agenda

• First 20+ minutes: JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-765
  • 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-765)

• GSoC 2011 Updates & Discussion
  • 14 applications (11 DSpace, 2 Fedora, 2 DuraCloud) from 10 students.
  • Still looking for Mentors!
    • DSpace Ideas Page: DSpace Summer of Code Ideas
    • Mentors, sign up on our GSoC page, if you want to see/vote on applications: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/duraspace

• Committment / Official Vote on DSpace Services:
  • See this 'dspace-devel' email thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05726.html
  • Other related discussions?

General Reminders:

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

Topics in the Waiting...

• Topics which are still on the "back burner" (which need someone to lead a "Special Topic" meeting around them)
  • 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
  • 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, GSoC Applications updates, Commitment on Services Framework discussion

• JIRA Review: Ended with DS-768
• GSoC Application Updates
• Discussion of Commitment to DSpace Services
  • After much discussion about the loop about just talking about services, it has been decide that the "Way forward" is:
    • "one way to break the cycle is to write more code. Build something in Services, and post as an example for people to learn from / comment on / etc"
    • So, we need more people to just start adopting Services Framework. As we get more comfortable with it, naturally it will gain broader acceptance.

Meeting Transcript

• Full IRC Transcript are available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2011-04-06