Developers Meeting on Weds, September 5, 2012

Agenda

Regular Items

• JIRA Reviews – starting with issue DS-1082
  • Search for all Unresolved Issues (since DS-1082)

• First 15 minutes: Forgoing the normal JIRA review for our first DCAT Cross-Discussion
  • DCAT is wondering if there's any way they can help / support 3.0 in coming weeks

Discussion Topics

1. 3.0 Release Schedule & Discussions
   • Are we still on for Feature Freeze on Fri?
   • 3.0 Tasks List: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+3.0+Tasks
     • Any last features to be committed / voted in?
   • Outstanding questions:
     • Do we want to pull LNI out of the "main codebase" and release as a separate 'dspace-lni' module?
     • Should Discovery be enabled by default? The question posted to dspace-devel had some good discussion, but no consensus yet.
2. Other topics?

Additional Ongoing Topics

1. How can we "catch up" with JIRA Backlog?
   • Do we need to "split up" the tickets & do quick reviews on our own? Or perhaps just split up tickets & do a very quick ranking & schedule ones with patches for 3.0?
   • Perhaps we schedule a "JIRA Backlog Bash" event (via IRC or similar) where we work together to decrease the backlog over a few days or a week (think of this like a "Test-a-thon" but instead we'd be working to just clear out the backlog as best we can).
2. Brainstorming Features/Changes for future. 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)
     • AuthN & AuthZ issues, including: DS-994, DS-1006, DS-1007, DS-1088, and developer meeting on May 2, 2012
   • 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

Individual Status Updates

If you have status items to report, please enter them below at least 1 hour before the meeting starts.

Meeting Notes

• DSpace 3.0 RT welcomes a new member: helix84
• RT pushes back the Feature Freeze deadline by a week. New deadline: September 17

Meeting Transcript

• Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2012-09-05

Action Items

• An email will be sent to DCAT detailing how they can help testing 3.0 features (helix84)
• update 3.0 release schedule (RT)
• 3.0 tasks multivote will be sent (helix84)
• review remaining 3.0 tasks (everyone)
• merge remaining 3.0 pull requests by September 17 (commiters)