Developers Meeting on Weds, May 19, 2010

Agenda

• Any Announcements / Additional Agenda Items?
• DSpace 1.6.1 Updates (Kim Shepherd)
  • Help us test DSpace 1.6.1! – Demo site is running pre-1.6.1 and is an easy way to test!
  • Release still on schedule for Friday, May 21st?
  • Other updates?
• Discussion Topics:
  • Jira Workflow (Robin Taylor)
    • Discussion began on dspace-devel
    • Are we all OK with Robin's proposed general workflow? "Received -> Open -> In_Progress -> Resolved -> Closed -> Re-Opened"
  • Next Special Topics Meeting? – it's about time we schedule another one. Possible topics for the next meeting may include (voice your opinion on the Doodle Poll if you cannot make the meeting ).
    1. Runtime Reconfiguration - How do we make DSpace easier to reconfigure while it is still running (e.g. either via Admin UI configs, or just enabling dspace.cfg to be reloaded without having to restart tomcat)?
    2. Asynchronous releases / Continued Modularization – Do we want to take steps to modularize DSpace even more? This may or may not include rearranging SVN so that many Maven modules are developed out of "modules" area instead of out of "trunk"?
    3. DSpace UI Development / Support – Do we continue to essentially require UI-parity for all new features?
    4. DSpace Services – Perhaps an overview of DSpace Services Framework or a Q&A with mdiggory around this framework? Do we all want to "buy into" this framework and work to better integrate it into DSpace?
    5. What is 2.0, really? How do we get there? – essentially a continuation of our previous RoadMap discussion. More planning/next steps towards 2.0.
• JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-517 (and getting as far as we can).
  • Search for recent JIRA Issues

Meeting Notes

1.6.1 is will be released Fri, Special Topics Mtg next week on DSpace Services, More research to do on Jira Workflow

• Updates on 1.6.1 from Kim
  • 1.6.1 is online at demo.dspace.org, people are testing, would love more!
  • The documentation issues are just staying open until the day before release (or so) in case there are last minute changes
  • The other "fix for 1.6.1" open issues were committed on the weekend and will be resolved after a bit more testing
  • It looks like we're still all on track for 21st May GMT
  • Big thanks to everyone who contributed code, raised issues, helped with testing and review, updated documentation!
  • It wasn't huge in terms of numbers, but it's a good stable release of 1.6 and I feel that sticking to our plan re: release timing worked out well. Good turnaround – only 44 days between the announcement and the code freeze.
• Jira Workflow Discussion
  • General consensus that having an automated "stagnant issues" report would help us all keep on top of old issues.
• Next Special Topics Mtg
  • Next Week (May 26) will be a Special Topics Meeting on DSpace Services Framework, led by Mark Diggory. This discussion may also dig into how we can use Services to potentially support Runtime Reconfiguration (e.g. changing configs on fly or moving configs to DB)

Action Items

• Release 1.6.1 on Friday - Yea!
• Research automated Jira reports
• Send out email on Homework for Special Topics Meeting next week.

Meeting Transcript

• Full IRC Transcript at - http://www.duraspace.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2010-05-19