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News
- Welcome new members! full DCAT list
- Next meeting on August 9
- OAI7 update
- DSpace 1.8 - 1.8.0 Release Notes
- DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign: $188k with 32 sponsors so far
- Repositories and CRIS event in the UK on July 19
- Other news?
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
- Update on previously reviewed items
- 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
- would like to hear what Can we come up with a general consensus of the types of optional configurable elements that the community would like to see need to hear and/or the functional req'mts (news box, statistics, list of comm/coll, what ever front page needs)?
- DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
- Richard Rodgers and Peter Dietz volunteered to review the patch and provide their feedback
- patch submitter Jose Blanco is also working on XMLUI version
- DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum, JIRA
- virus checking - Robin Taylor has added a few patches to address request, waiting on other developers to review
- file format checking - Richard Rodgers is working on this, Robin hoping to use his work, will 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
- Anything currently from GSoC list that we need to give feedback on?
- DS-456 create easy upgrade scripts (Iryna): discussion forum, JIRA
- DS-560 XMLUI News in config dir (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA
- New feature review process
Meeting Attendees:
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