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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 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, September 7, 2011
Agenda
- Discussion: Final Preparation/Updates for 1.8.0 RC1 & Testathon (next week)
- DSpace Release 1.8.0 Notes
- 1.8.0 RC1 will be released TOMORROW (THURS, SEPT 8)
- Some Outstanding Issues:
Areas we can use help in coming weeks
- Updating 1.8.0 Documentation
- Updating Install / Upgrade instructions
- Updating Configuration section (especially after all the configs were moved to config/modules)
- Reviewing JIRA tickets (especially bug fixes) which are marked for 1.8.0 & have attachments (patches)
- Time Permitting, we can always do a JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-886
Topics in the Waiting...
- Topics which are still on the "back burner" (which need someone to lead a "Special Topic" meeting around them)
- Do we want to schedule a meeting to go over proposed Modularization / Refactoring work in near future?
- Restructure Trunk Projects
- Refactoring the DSpace Domain Model
- Others listed under Development Proposals
- Discuss 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)
- Per discussion at OR11, DCAT is going to make recommendations on Metadata Schemas that DSpace should support.
- Discuss forming a "Documentation Management Team"? Or reworking our procedures for managing/reviewing/approving Docs on the Wiki.
- More discussion of Proposed RoadMap to 2.0
- In meantime, feel free to forward thoughts on to Tim or everyone (via dspace-devel or dspace-commit).
- Do we want to schedule a meeting to go over proposed Modularization / Refactoring work in near future?
Meeting Transcript
- Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2011-09-07
Meeting Archives
Notes and Transcripts from all recent Developers Meetings are available off of the Developer Meeting Archives page.