Developers Meeting on Weds, August 29, 2018

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• DSpace 7 Working Group: Next meeting is tomorrow, Thurs, August 30 at 14:00 UTC

• DSpace 7 Entities Working Group: This Working Group will be replaced by DSpace 7 Entities Working Group (NEW GROUP): Last chance to respond to open Doodle Poll on meeting times

  • Early prototype writeup / docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wEmHirFzrY3qgGtRr2YBQwGOvH1IuTVGmxDIdnqvwxM/edit

• DSpace Developer Show and Tell Meetings:  Next Show & Tell will be August 28 at 15:00 UTC.  The topic will be Yesterday's recording is now posted to DSpace On DockerHub

Discussion Topics

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1. (Ongoing Topic) DSpace 7 Status Updates for this week. 

   1. DSpace 7 Working Group is where the work is taking place
   2. DSpace 7 Dev Status spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18brPF7cZy_UKyj97Ta44UJg5Z8OwJGi7PLoPJVz-g3g/edit#gid=0

2. (Ongoing Topic) DSpace 6.x Status Updates for this week

   1. 6.4 will surely happen at some point, but no definitive plan or schedule at this time.  Please continue to help move forward / merge PRs into the dspace-6.x branch, and we can continue to monitor when a 6.4 release makes sense.
3. Brainstorming ideas for future DSpace Developer Show and Tell Meetings
4. [Follow-up] How to encourage / credit folks who do Code Reviews? (Tim Donohue)
   1. We have a lot of open PRs.  As we know, the process for reviewing is very ad-hoc, sometimes encounters delays.  If we can find ways to encourage/empower folks (even non-Committers if they know Java / Angular well) to do code reviews & be credited publicly...maybe we can speed up this process?
   2. Tim has begun tagging/categorizing PRs via labels: UPDATE: Tagging is complete. Feedback on the labels is welcome:  https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/labels
      
   3. Hope is to at least make it easier to find related PRs and/or PRs of interest. Each label provides stats for how many PRs exist on that topic.
   Labels are in flux. Feedback is welcome on how they'd be most useful.  Names/descriptions of labels are easy to change (in bulk).
5. Brainstorms / ideas (Any quick updates to report?)
   
   1. Bulk Operations Support Enhancements (from Mark H. Wood)
   2. Curation System Needs (from Terrence W Brady )
6. Tickets, Pull Requests or Email threads/discussions requiring more attention? (Please feel free to add any you wish to discuss under this topic)
   1. Quick Win PRs: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+review%3Aapproved+label%3A%22quick+win%22

Tabled Topics

These topics are ones we've touched on in the past and likely need to revisit (with other interested parties). If a topic below is of interest to you, say something and we'll promote it to an agenda topic!

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