Developers Meeting on Weds, December 12, 2012

Agenda

Regular Items

• JIRA Reviews – starting with issue DS-1082
  • Search for all Unresolved Issues (since DS-1082)

Discussion Topics

1. 3.0 Release
   
   1. Any thoughts on dspace-release thread around how we may wish to change the release processes in 4.0? 
      
      1. Do we want to change our "deadlines"?
   2. Any new thoughts on 3.1 timelines?
2. Revisiting JIRA Workflow Improvements
   
   1. Tim is thinking of implementing this sometime in the next few weeks (if possible). Any final suggestions thoughts?
   2. JIRA Backlog – any thoughts on how to try to catch up?  "JIRA Backlog Bash" for a few days (almost like a Testathon but to quickly review old JIRA tickets)?
3. Other topics?

Additional Ongoing Topics

1. How can we "catch up" with JIRA Backlog?
   • Do we need to "split up" the tickets & do quick reviews on our own? Or perhaps just split up tickets & do a very quick ranking & schedule ones with patches for 3.0?
   • Perhaps we schedule a "JIRA Backlog Bash" event (via IRC or similar) where we work together to decrease the backlog over a few days or a week (think of this like a "Test-a-thon" but instead we'd be working to just clear out the backlog as best we can).
2. Brainstorming Features/Changes for future. 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)
     • AuthN & AuthZ issues, including: DS-994, DS-1006, DS-1007, DS-1088, and developer meeting on May 2, 2012
   • 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

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Meeting Notes

Meeting Transcript

• Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2012-12-12

Action Items

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