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Developers Meeting on Weds, May 4, 2011

Agenda

SPECIAL TOPICS MEETING

  • Today's Topic: Asynchronous Releases & Trunk Reorganization

Questions For Each of Us to Answer:

  1. What are your responses to each of these ideas/proposals? Do you have questions/concerns, agree/disagree, or have alternative ideas?
  2. Do you support the idea of Asynchronous Releases of various DSpace projects (e.g. releasing one or more projects outside of a formal release like DSpace 1.7.0 or 1.8.0)?
  3. Based on your ideas around questions #1 and #2, do you have any strong opinions on what source code should reside in "DSpace TRUNK" versus in another location in SVN?

Meeting Preparation & References:

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  • As a review, current SVN setup of DSpace Source Code is:
    • In SVN Trunk (8 main projects, all released synchronously/together):
      1. dspace-api
      2. dspace-discovery
      3. dspace-jspui
      4. dspace-lni
      5. dspace-oai
      6. dspace-stats
      7. dspace-sword
      8. dspace-xmlui
    • Outside of SVN Trunk, but still included in out-of-the-box DSpace (All have option of being released asynchronously, and all source code is available in the 'modules' area of our SVN.)
      1. dspace-api-lang (Core & JSPUI Language Packs)
      2. dspace-xmlui-lang (XMLUI Language Packs)
      3. dspace-pom (Shared Parent POM)
      4. dspace-geoip (GeoIP support for Statistics)
      5. dspace-services (Service Framework)
      6. dspace-solr (Solr Support for Statistics & Discovery)

General Reminders

  • GSoC General Reminders:
    • New GSoC Mailing Lists this year (shared with Fedora & DuraCloud):
      • duraspace-gsoc : Public list (anyone can join), but mostly for Mentor & Student discussions, public feedback, cross-project collaboration opportunities, etc.
      • duraspace-gsoc-mentors : Private List (Mentors/Admins only) for GSoC administrative purposes only
    • Important Dates (full timeline)
      • May 23: GSoC Begins
      • August 22: GSoC Ends
  • OR11 Reminder: OR11 DSpace Developers Meeting Info at DevMtg 2011-06-06 - OR11 Meeting
    • Please Sign up if you are planning to attend!

Topics in the Waiting...

  • Topics which are still on the "back burner" (which need someone to lead a "Special Topic" meeting around them)
    • Do we want to schedule a meeting to go over proposed Modularization / Refactoring work in near future?
    • Discuss improving how DSpace handles Metadata (From past meetings discussions, this seems popular). Several ideas mentioned recently:
      • Updating to current DCMI standards: DS-805
      • Creating a new "dspace" internal usage schema (for administrative, or non-DC metadata)? Formalize the "dc" schema to be strictly valid QDC/DC?
      • Metadata on all DSpace objects (not just Items)
    • Discuss forming a "Documentation Management Team"? Or reworking our procedures for managing/reviewing/approving Docs on the Wiki.
      • UPDATE: Jeff Trimble will lead a discussion on this in April or May. Still working on date.
    • More discussion of Proposed RoadMap to 2.0 before OR11
      • In meantime, feel free to forward thoughts on to Tim or everyone (via dspace-devel or dspace-commit).

Meeting Transcript