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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, October 19, 2011
Agenda
- Updates on 1.8.0 Release
- Release is delayed one week, now scheduled for Oct 28.
- Too many last minute bug fixes that we wanted to get in delayed 1.8.0 RC2 (released this morning), which in turn delayed 1.8.0 final.
- We still need more eyes on Documentation (especially Upgrade & Installation docs)
- Documentation that is still missing:
- Various New Curation Tasks (Link Checker, MS Translator, etc) (Kim Shepherd?)
- Release is delayed one week, now scheduled for Oct 28.
1.8.0 Bugs/Issues which are open (direct link)
PLEASE VOLUNTEER TO HELP WITH ANY UNASSIGNED ISSUES! We'd love to resolve all/most of these before 1.8.0 Final!
On the "back burner"
Possible Future Topics for "Special Topics" meetings
- Improving our release processes so they rely less on Tim as backup support ("growing our team members"). Possible ideas include having a "Release Coordination Team" (2-3 committers), and potentially also having an "apprentice" role on that others can learn more about the entire process.
- Discussions on ways to better Aggregate & "Clean" Solr Statistics (keeping everything makes the indexes way too large & hinders performance). See this dspace-tech email thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net/msg15373.html
Notes
1.8.0 updates, future special topics meetings needed on Release Teams? & Aggregating Statistics
Meeting Transcript
- Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2011-10-19
Meeting Archives
Notes and Transcripts from all recent Developers Meetings are available off of the Developer Meeting Archives page.