Developers Meeting on Weds, October 20, 2010

Agenda

• DSpace 1.7 Updates
  • Upcoming Release Schedule
    • Feature Freeze on Friday (Oct 22).
    • Fri, Oct 29 - Initial version of all 1.7 Documentation on Wiki
    • Fri, Nov 5 - 1.7.0 Release Candidate 1
    • Week of Nov 8-12 - Testathon
  • Any Features waiting to go in before Friday?? Anything need approval from Committers?? Many potential features listed on DSpace Release 1.7.0 Notes are not yet in Trunk.
    • Mark Diggory: @mire is working to get a feverishly to get a number of feature finalized and under trunk byt he cutoff date these are the following:
      • NewAlternative dri2xhtml and Basic Theme that can be a clearer starting point for XMLUI developers to start from
      • Fixes to Solr performance, additional Statistics customization documentation and one example fix
      • Contribution of DSpace Discovery as option for build in trunk. Enduser/Developer will be able to enable discovery easily with just a few configuration/build changes.
  • Also, still a number of unclaimed 1.7 Issues/Potential Features in JIRA

• JIRA Catch-Up (time permitting) – starting with issue DS-641
  • Search for recent JIRA Issues

• NEXT WEEK (WEDS, OCT 27, 20:00 UTC) : Web Seminar - "In-Depth Fedora Tutoral for Developers" (taught by Thorny Staples)
  • We will not have a DSpace Developer Meeting, instead, I'd encourage you all to attend this "Intro To Fedora" session.
  • Announcements will be going out soon about this training session. It will be recorded for those unable to attend.

Meeting Transcript

• Full IRC Transcript will be available at - http://www.duraspace.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2010-10-20