Proposed Meeting Agenda
News
- Welcome to our 9 new members! (full team)
- Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital
- Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central
- Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net
- Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
- Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
- Bram Luyten - @mire
- Alice Platt - Southern New Hampshire University
- Imma Subirats - OEKC, FAO of the United Nations
- Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
- DSpace 1.7.1 release - bug fix release (no new features, just resolves issues found in 1.7.0)
- resolves a medium-level security issue found in 1.7.0 (see DS-858)
- fully supports Oracle databases
- resolves several SWORD-related bugs
- some other minor issues were resolved - for a full list, please see the 1.7.1 Release Notes and Version History
- DSpace 1.8
- target date for Oct 2011
- Robin Taylor - release coordinator
- what might be included: 1.8.0 Release Notes
- Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
- DSpace user group mtg chair, Holly Mercer
- DSpace committer mtg on Mon June 6, all DCAT invited to the mtg, planning a informal cocktail hour after
- Other news?
- OAI7 DSpace User Mtg on June 21 - sponsored by @mire & DuraSpace
- Nepal, Thailand and Laos -- how did the FAO training in Laos in March go?
- Welcome to our 9 new members! (full team)
e-Forum
- participation low in last e-Forum
- SPARC's new e-forum on "subject repository development and success" - overlap?
New feature review process
- Goal: primary goal of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests in JIRA and to provide support to the DSpace developer/committer group in producing software releases.
- What it is:
- group representing the community which make assessments about new feature requests in JIRA - the relative value and urgency for the broader community
- facilitate community wide discussions on the most useful and urgent new feature requests - the purpose of which is to validate DCAT assessment, flesh out req'mts, most importantly-->find stakeholder/developer resources
- possibly provide communication support (announcements, etc.) to developers/committers for software releases
- collaborate on other projects for the community - user group mtgs, networking, mailing list participation, e-forum, attend weekly developer/committer mtgs
- What it is not:
- a group that dictates work priorities for the developers/committers
- having discussions just to have discussions
- What it is:
- Process overview
- Future discussion schedule
- Goal: primary goal of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests in JIRA and to provide support to the DSpace developer/committer group in producing software releases.
Update on previously reviewed items
- DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
- DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum, JIRA - Elin currently working w/Robin to understanding the curation framework, and investigating/figure out a next steps
- DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA - Jim says it is ready for community wide discussion, he will schedule
Meeting Attendees:
- Bram Luyten, Michael Guthrie, Iryna Kuchma, Tim Donohue, Ciarán Walsh, Valorie Hollister, Elin Stangeland, Jim Ottaviani, Imma Subraits
NEXT MEETING ON MAY 5, 2011 AT 3PM/20:00 GMT