2009-05-26 - Committer Meeting

Debrief of OR09

What did we hear

1. Request for blogging of DuraCloud activities
2. Request for Fedora transparency
   1. Interest in Special Topics meetings
3. Request for details of FedoraRepository/DSpace architectural roadmap
   1. Want latest Roadmap on website/wiki (TimD discussion: "Roadmap" theme as Jira field, and auto-generate parts of roadmap from Jira?)
4. Maven2:
   1. Lots of positive responses
   2. MarkD wants Fedora POM for DSpace-on-Fedora builds
5. OSGi:
   1. DSpace considered OSGi early on, but steered away from it in part due to complexity.  Currently using it's own "OSGi-like" module approach, using Spring.
   2. Sakai went back and forth on OSGi, now moving toward it.
   3. AaronZ (sakai/dspace2 committer) gave us an osgi primer
   4. DaveF pulling together resources for Eddie+AaronZ to go to osgi conference and experiment with OSGi-fying Fedora
6. FedoraFS (Rebecca Koeser@Emory's repo challenge entry):
   1. Allows use of Fedora via standard filesystem interface (video here)
   2. ChrisW talking w/Rebecca this week: re: potential "contrib" project

Potential actions

1. Draft release of 3.3 feature list
2. Promote feature "interest groups"
   1. These groups would ideally be self-forming
   2. May need initial help from core-developers to establish precedence
   3. Would have wiki area for design, units-of-work, status, etc...
      1. maven2 ?
      2. fedora as self-contained, deployable war ?
      3. OSGi ?
      4. Web Admin additions ?
      5. Enhanced Content Model ?
      6. Workflow ?
      7. Security redesign ?
      8. ...
3. New development infrastructure
   1. OSUOSL for hosting svn, etc...
   2. Forum
   3. Mailing lists
4. Establish "contrib" area of svn
   1. Plan towards "garage sale"
   2. Encourage community to bring customizations out of wood-work
5. Hack-a-thon
6. ...