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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, February 22, 2012
Agenda
Regular Items
- JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-951
Discussion Topics
- Quick Announcements:
- 1.8.2 will be released likely Thurs & announced on Fri.
- Reminder Developers Virtual Summit is NEXT WEEK (each day @ 20:00UTC)
- Discussion will take place via Skype (audio-only) or phone – see page above for connection/call-in details
- #duraspace IRC will be used as a "backchannel" – a way to share links, take notes, or enhance current discussions.
- Google Summer of Code 2012 - Begin to think about possible GSoC DSpace Project Ideas. Also, think about whether you'd be willing to mentor a student project (of your choice, obviously).
- Post your ideas to wiki at: DSpace Summer of Code Ideas
- 3.0 Release
- Still need a "team leader" for our Release Team:
- Current Release Team (all volunteered in Fall): Hardy P, Sands F, Kim S, Robin T
- Do we want to start discussing some potential features folks are working on? (Others may come up during next week's Summit as well)
- Still need a "team leader" for our Release Team:
- Other topics?
Additional Ongoing Topics
- Brainstorming Features/Changes for 3.0. Can we work towards development teams around any of these projects?
- Larger DSpace projects which seem to have a lot of recent support:
- Moving towards a Common "Business Logic" / Business Services API. (I.e. avoiding duplication of business logic in all UIs)
- Metadata For All (i.e. metadata on all objects), SubTopic: Getting us up-to-date how we use Dublin Core / DCMI. (Support from DCAT)
- Other DSpace projects receiving mention recently
- Migrate Search and Browse to DSpace Discovery
- "Change which UIs come out-of-the-box" (and which are optionally installed later)
- Move configurations to DB or similar (so they can be managed/edited from Admin UI)
- Context Guided Ingest (or Item Type based submissions)
- Other Development Proposals
- Larger DSpace projects which seem to have a lot of recent support:
Individual Status Updates
If you have status items to report, please enter them below at least 1 hour before the meeting starts.
Meeting Notes
Meeting Transcript
- Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2012-02-22
Action Items
Action items coming out of this meeting go here, if any.
- TODO - Update the ReleaseCoordinating page to better outline Release Processes
- Add "Update this document with lessons learned" as the final task of any release.
Meeting Archives
Notes and Transcripts from all recent Developers Meetings are available off of the Developer Meeting Archives page.