Developers Meeting on Weds, March 4, 2015

Today's Meeting Times

JIRA Backlog Hour: 19:00 UTC in #dspace IRC, i.e. one hour BEFORE the meeting. During that hour, we will be working together to tackle our JIRA Backlog of "Received" tickets.
DSpace Developers Meeting: 20:00 UTC in #duraspace IRC

Agenda

Reminder: Submit a talk on your "cool tools, daring demos, fab features" for the Open Repositories 2015 "Developer Track"! Proposals are due by March 13.

Discussion Topics

DSpace 5.1 / 4.3 / 3.4 were all released last week.
Tim will not be at next week's meeting ("DuraSpace Summit" in Washington DC) & will report back on anything that goes on there. Volunteer to lead the Developer's meeting next week?
Open Discussion: some possibilities include...
1. DSpace 5.2 – do we anticipate another bug fix release?
2. DSpace 6.0 - Anything you working on?
3. Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration. Confirm that the separation is a good idea. Is the proposed naming clear?

Ongoing Discussions

Looking beyond DSpace 5, what sort of UI(s) would we want for the future?
1. The new DSpace Steering Group has noted that it seems unsustainable to maintain two UIs forever.
2. Both our UIs are rather dated platforms (JSPUI = base code is 13+ years old, XMLUI = 7+ years old). There are lots of newer, easier to user Java and non-Java UI platforms.
3. Brainstorms on a Future UI is the beginning of some very rough ideas of what UI platforms exist out there, and what is important to us in a UI. None of this is "set in stone", and it's all just a brainstorm on "If we had to choose again now, what do we feel is the best UI platform to help DSpace remain a relevant, vibrant project for 5-10 more years."

(Action items go here, if any)