Developers Meeting on Weds, January 26, 2011

Agenda

• First 20+ minutes: JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-669
  • Search for all Unresolved Issues (since DS-669)

• General Announcements:
  • Tentative Timeline for 1.8.0 now posted
    • Will be released in October 2011. Tentative, detailed timeline now posted on 1.8.0 Release Notes page
    • Formal announcement forthcoming to DSpace community (via listservs).
  • Tentative Listing of potential features for 1.8.0
    • Also listed on 1.8.0 Release Notes page
    • These are not definite, just what we hope will be ready in time for 1.8.0. If you want to see a particular feature happen, please volunteer to help!

• 1.7.1 – seems we've had several fixes in 1.7.x branch recently (though none seem serious). We may want to begin thinking about whether we want to release a 1.7.1 within next month or two.

• Schedule a "Special Topics" Meeting? Any of the following could make for a nice discussion (these are all larger topics that have come up recently).
  • git / DCVS
  • Forming a "Documentation Management Team"? Or reworking our procedures for managing/reviewing/approving Docs on the Wiki.
  • Switch to a new version numbering scheme? Suggestions include: (1) drop the "1.", so that "1.8" would be "DSpace 8", or (2) number based on release date, so Oct 2011 release would be nummbered 11.10 (YY.MM)
  • Improving how DSpace handles Metadata. Several ideas mentioned recently:
    • Updating to current DCMI standards: DS-805
    • Creating a new "dspace" internal usage schema (for administrative, or non-DC metadata)? Formalize the "dc" schema to be strictly valid QDC/DC?
    • Metadata on all DSpace objects (not just Items)

Meeting Transcript

• Full IRC Transcript will be available at - http://www.duraspace.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2011-01-26