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4) Once the DCAT vote is complete, the discussion leader will post a summary of the DCAT discussion (or a cut and paste of the full discussion from the forum) to the issue in JIRA.
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6) The weekly DCAT discussion leader will attend the weekly DSpace Committer meeting on the week immediately following their discussion week. This will provide the discussion leader an opportunity to ask any questions that the may have and/or a regular chance to share information with the Committers.
5) If the new feature is determined to be of high interest and high priority, the discussion leader will schedule a community-wide discussion. The goal is not to exceed more than 2 community-wide new feature discussions in a month. The discussion will be announced on the mailing list, but will take place in the wiki-based DSpace discussion forum and anyone is free to participate. The discussion will last 1 week. If there are people interested in helping to develop a specific feature, the discussion leader will help connect individuals/organizations to start a project group to continue the effort.6) The weekly DCAT discussion leader will attend the weekly DSpace Committer meeting on the week immediately following their discussion week. This will provide the discussion leader an opportunity to ask any questions that the may have and/or a regular chance to share information with the Committers.
7) There will be a monthly DCAT meeting on the 1st Tuesday of every month. This meeting is information sharing / process refinement / problem resolution meeting. Most of the 'real' work for DCAT will be done asynchronously throughout the month.