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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. If you are unsure how to connect to IRC, see our list of IRC Resources & Clients

This meeting schedule is also available via the DuraSpace Public Events Calendar (iCal, RSS Feed).

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, January 19, 2011

Agenda

  • Moving towards finalizing a Timeline for 1.8.0
    • Over past few weeks (and amongst Committers privately), a few 1.8 Timeframe options have been discussed:
      1. Release 1.8.0 in Sept 2011 - See Sample Timeline #1 in 1.8.0 Release Notes
      2. Release 1.8.0 in Oct 2011 - See Sample Timeline #2 in 1.8.0 Release Notes
      3. Release 1.8.0 "with enough time to generate reports/presentations" for Open Repositories. The exact details of this proposal are still a bit unclear to me, and need clarification. But I suspect this would mean a 1.8.0 release in Dec 2011 or early 2012 (i.e. before deadlines for OR12 submissions start to occur).
  • Beginning to brainstorm potential features for 1.8.0 release:
    • More Curation Tools/Plugins? (Obviously, some could potentially even be release asynchronously, and also formally "bundled" with 1.8.0)
    • REST API formal release? It missed 1.7.0, but there seemed to be interest there. Volunteer(s) to stabilize/improve for 1.8.0?
    • DSpace "Easy" Installer? (see DS-802 for very early thoughts – code coming soon)
      • Perhaps, alongside this, an easier way to "install" plugins/addons (like Curation Tool plugins)??
    • Other ideas, things people are already working on / towards?
  • Topics for upcoming "Special Topics" Meetings?
    • git / DCVS
    • Forming a "Documentation Management Team"? Or reworking our procedures for managing/reviewing/approving Docs on the Wiki.

Meeting Notes

1.8 scheduling & feature brainstorming, JIRA review

  • JIRA Review: ended with DS-668
  • 1.8.0 Scheduling Discussion
    • Some misunderstanding about our version numbering scheme:
      • 1.x.x -> 2.x.x = major version (major architectural changes, may not be 100% compatible with past versions, but obviously will have a migration path)
      • 1.6.x -> 1.7.x = minor version (feature changes or minor architecture changes, should be compatible with other past versions)
      • 1.7.0 -> 1.7.1 = subminor version (bug-fixes only - no new features or architecture/DB changes)
    • 1.8.0 Scheduling - New call for a vote will happen on dspace-commit list. Hope to be decided/finalized soon.
    • Version numbering - more discussion of whether to change our numbering sequences. Some options posed:
      • Drop the "1.", so 1.8 would become "8"
      • Number similar to Ubuntu, so if the release was in Oct 2011, it would be version 11.10 (YY.MM)
      • No real decision, just floated ideas
  • 1.8.0 Potential Features

Meeting Transcript

Meeting Archives

Notes and Transcripts from all recent Developers Meetings are available off of the Developer Meeting Archives page.

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