Developers Meeting on Weds, May 2, 2012

Agenda

Regular Items

• JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-1006
  • Search for all Unresolved Issues (since DS-1006)

Reminder: The (Face-to-Face) DSpace Developers Meeting at OR12 in Edinburgh will more than likely be on Monday, July 9.

Discussion Topics

1. Listserv activity: Is there more we should all be doing to chip in? Seems like most questions now being answered by helix84 (thanks helix84!).
2. 3.0 Release Planning
   • Scheduling a 3.0 "Special Topic" meeting (via Skype) - May 9 or 16
   • New dspace-release list is geared towards planning this release. Anyone can join, but discussions will be specific to release planning & administrative discussions.
3. GitHub Migration
   • Already hit by Line Ending issues in one merge (See last few comments in: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/4). Do we need to all ensure we are following Line Ending Guidelines similar to those for Fedora:
     • https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FCREPO/Git+Guidelines+and+Best+Practices#GitGuidelinesandBestPractices-Lineendings
   • Tim updated DSpace + NetBeans IDE instructions for Git/GitHub. We could use similar updates for IDEA and Eclipse (any volunteers?)
   • Any "best practices" we'd like to start with and add to: Development with Git
4. Other topics?

Additional Ongoing Topics

1. Brainstorming Features/Changes for 3.0. Can we work towards development teams around any of these projects?
   • Larger DSpace projects which seem to have a lot of recent support:
     • Moving towards a Common "Business Logic" / Business Services API. (I.e. avoiding duplication of business logic in all UIs)
     • Metadata For All (i.e. metadata on all objects), SubTopic: Getting us up-to-date how we use Dublin Core / DCMI. (Support from DCAT)
   • Other DSpace projects receiving mention recently
     • Migrate Search and Browse to DSpace Discovery
     • "Change which UIs come out-of-the-box" (and which are optionally installed later)
     • Move configurations to DB or similar (so they can be managed/edited from Admin UI)
     • Context Guided Ingest (or Item Type based submissions)
     • Other Development Proposals

Individual Status Updates

If you have status items to report, please enter them below at least 1 hour before the meeting starts.

Meeting Notes

Meeting Transcript

• Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2012-05-02

Action Items

Action items coming out of this meeting go here, if any.

• TODO - Update the ReleaseCoordinating page to better outline Release Processes
  • Add "Update this document with lessons learned" as the final task of any release.