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News
- Welcome to our 6 new members!
- DSpace 1.7 promotion
- Next major DSpace release
- Oct 2011
- what might be included: release notes
- e-Forum on March 23-24: Collaborating with contributors: "Project workflows" hosted by Alice Platt
- need a co-moderator, ideally in Europe, Asia or Australia/NZ
- future topic suggestions?
- statistics (particularly, being able to share stats with users)
- copyright procedures (how do you research copyright for things you put in your repository?)
- citation management (is there a need to provide a way to pull out citations out of your repository?)
- upgrade process - how do you upgrade, testing, bringing in customizations
- Documentation Mgmt Team
- useful info from mailing list - procedure to get answers from mailing list to wiki docs or in a FAQ/discussion forum: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC/DSpace+Documentation
- Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
- DSpace user group mtg chair, Holly Mercer
- DSpace committer mtg on either Mon June 6 or Tues June 7 - joint DCAT/committer mtg/cocktail hour afterwards?
- Other news?
New feature review process
- Goals
- 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 developer resources
- possibly provide communication support (announcements, etc.) to developers/committers for software releases
- What it is not:
- a group that dictates work priorities for the developers/committers
- having discussions just to have discussions
- What it is:
- 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.
- Review JIRA new feature requests, provide draft of recommendations and lead DCAT discussion on the request
- Provide feedback in JIRA about specific new feature requests
- Facilitate community-wide discussions on selected new feature requests - flesh out minimum requirements and potential project team / stakeholders and developers
- Collaborate on other project, tools, resources which serve the community
- Help to organize user group meetings
- Network regularly with other DSpace users in country/region
- Participate in mailing lists or discussion forums to share knowledge and best practices
- Periodically attend the DSpace Committers meetings
- Overview
- Future discussion schedule
Update on previously reviewed items
- DS587 tombstone (Sarah)
- DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin)
- DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim)
Meeting Attendees:
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