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Meeting Schedule and Attendance
DSpace Developer meetings are a time when Committers and interested Developers can discuss new software features, upcoming releases of DSpace software, and generally plan out the roadmap of DSpace. All meetings are public. We welcome anyone and everyone to attend, speak their opinions or just listen in on the discussions. Please note that we archive all discussions (see Meeting Archives), as a service for those who are unable to attend.
DSpace Developer meetings take place on the following schedule:
- Every Wednesday at 20:00 UTC/GMT in #duraspace IRC channel
- All meetings are held for 1 hour (although, admittedly, discussion sometimes extends beyond that)
See the world clock to determine the meeting time where you live.
Meeting topics often include:
- Recent updates on upcoming DSpace releases, bug fixes or features
- Reviewing of recent reported issues/bugs/feature requests (see JIRA Cleanup Sessions for more info)
- Occasionally we vote or make decisions on upcoming DSpace technology plans/roadmap (see Developer Voting Procedures for more info)
If you are unable to attend a meeting, please feel free to add your own notes/comments to the meeting's wiki page.
Developers Meeting on Weds, September 22, 2010
Agenda
- JIRA Catch-Up (for first 20 mins or so of meeting) – starting with issue DS-616
- DSpace 1.7 Features/Updates
- Unclaimed 1.7 Issues/Potential Features in JIRA
- Other updates ???
- License Headers (picking up from Last Week's discussion)
- For 1.7, we should try to switch to this smaller DuraSpace License Header suggestion
- Tim is working on getting a publicly available License file up at http://www.dspace.org/license/ (currently not there yet, but may be soon)
- We should be able to use Maven to update these license headers – see http://aaronz-sakai.blogspot.com/2009/08/easy-license-headers-with-maven.html
- Coming Soon (next week or two): JIRA Migration to http://jira.duraspace.org/
- Our existing JIRA is a rather old version – this move will also allow everyone to use the same Login for both Wiki & JIRA.
Meeting Notes:
JIRA catchup, 1.7 updates, discussion of Memory Leak email threads
- JIRA Catchup – ended with DS-623
- DSpace 1.7 Updates
- Sands Fish (MIT) working on XMLUI "White Screen of Death" issues (see http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-605) – patch coming
- Google Scholar-friendly improvements coming as well (also Sands & MIT) – see http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-396
- Other feature updates
- There are still Unclaimed 1.7 Issues – please volunteer to help out!
- Recent Memory Leak discussions on dspace-tech (for thread, see http://www.mail-archive.com/dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net/msg11969.html)
- All in agreement that we need to resolve any Memory leaks & improve performance
- We need a leader for this initiative & a volunteer task force to start working on it
- Tim will send an announcement/call – It has now been sent, see: http://www.mail-archive.com/dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net/msg12042.html
- Known interested parties who we may be able to convince to help: Graham Triggs, Hardy Pottinger, possibly PeterDietz
- Did not get around to the License Headers discussion in agenda.
Meeting Transcript
- Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://www.duraspace.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2010-09-22
Meeting Archives
Notes and Transcripts from all recent Developers Meetings are available off of the Developer Meeting Archives page.