Meeting Notes
News
- Welcome new members! full DCAT list
- Next meeting on August 9
- OAI7 update
- excellent turn out
- Iryna helped lead small group discussions: notes
- DSpace 1.8 - 1.8.0 Release Notes - feature freeze on August 19!
- DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign: $188k with 32 sponsors so far
- Jonathan mentioned that DuraSpace will be making more formalized acknowledgements of committers. For those institutions who share their developer resources, DuraSpace technologies could not exist w/o these resources - individuals and their organizations are already acknowledged on the wiki, but there will be a specific section of the duraspace.org website acknowledging the institutions/organizations who contribute committer/s. There will also be acknowledgement letters sent to the organizations (will be discussed w/each committers prior to sending)
- Repositories and CRIS event in the UK on July 19
- Other news?
- Repository Fringe is still looking for speakers
- DSpace on Fedora panel discussion summary from OR11
- Elin Stangeland has been nominated to serve on the OR12 Planning Cmte - Congratulations!
DCAT Review
- New feature review process
- Goal: primary goal of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests in JIRA and to provide support to the DSpace developer/committer group in producing software releases.
- What it is:
- group representing the community which make assessments about new feature requests in JIRA - the relative value and urgency for the broader community
- facilitate community wide discussions on the most useful and urgent new feature requests - the purpose of which is to validate DCAT assessment, flesh out req'mts, most importantly-->find stakeholder/developer resources
- possibly provide communication support (announcements, etc.) to developers/committers for software releases
- collaborate on other projects for the community - user group mtgs, networking, mailing list participation, e-forum, attend weekly developer/committer mtgs
- What it is not:
- a group that dictates work priorities for the developers/committers
- having discussions just to have discussions
- Process overview
- please be sure to vote on each issue - even if it is a "+0"
- attending weekly committer mtg following your issue discussion week is really helpful
- Future discussion schedule
- New issues - Anyone who does not have an issue selected, please come with your selection: DCAT JIRA New Features
- Revised/updated metadata schema - committers have requested our input on what we want out of the box
- Bram has developed a survey
- Phase 1 - DCAT members will all respond to the survey and have discussion (on email list and/or at next mtg)
- Phase 2 - community-wide survey - results from DCAT survey will help focus the public survey
- Feedback Leonie Hayes on this
- Bram has developed a survey
- Update on previously reviewed items
- DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
- patch submitter Jose Blanco is also working on XMLUI version
- Richard Rodgers and Peter Dietz volunteered to review the patch and provide their feedback - Tim and Robyn checking to confirm that Richard and Peter are still able to review
- DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DSpace+*+DS-638++check+files+on+input+for+viruses%2C+and+verify+file+format), JIRA
- virus checking is complete
- file format checking - Richard Rodgers/MIT is working on this and planning for it to be in for 1.8
- DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA
- GSoC project - do away with item-submission.xml and input-forms.xml and instead create an Admin UI that allows repo managers reorganize the submission UI
- Jim and other DCAT members provided specfic requirements list to GSofC list
- Need feedback on steps and proposed admin UI screenshots
- DS-560 XMLUI News in config dir (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA
- XMLUI interface is not as useful as JSPUI for news config, Bram proposed to have a more flexible front page
- Bram to re-send discussion link - all DCAT members to chime in on broadened scope (not just XMLUI, not just news) to come up with a general consensus of the types of optional configurable elements that the community would like to see and/or the functional req'mts (news box, statistics, list of comm/coll, what ever front page needs)
- After we have a consensus, we will hold a community-wide discussion for both feedback and developer resource identification
- DS-456 create easy upgrade scripts (Iryna): discussion forum, JIRA
- no developer assigned yet
- propose writing scripts for the most common database/operating sys
- Database: PostgreSQL 264, MySQL 43, Oracle 39, Other 6
- Operating Sys: Linux 224, Microsoft Windows 88, UNIX 28, Solaris 22, HPUX 2
- Michael to attach scripts to JIRA issue that they have developed
- hold community-wide discussion/solicitation of other upgrade scripts already written or interested parties
- DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
- New feature review process
Meeting Attendees:
- Bram Luyten - @mire
- Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
- Claire Bundy - BioMed Central
- Elena Feinstein - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Elin Stangeland - Cambridge University Library
- Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
- Jennifer Laherty - Indiana University
- Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan
- Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central
- Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace
- Tim Donohue - DuraSpace
- Jonathan Markow - DuraSpace,
OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE ON AUGUST 9, 2011 at 9:00 am Eastern/13:00 GMT
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Iryna Kuchma
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