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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.
NOTE: Any developer is also welcome to ask questions or brainstorm ideas with Tim Donohue during the DSpace Office Hours held before the weekly Developers meeting in the same IRC channel.
Developers Meeting on Weds, January 29, 2014
Agenda
Regular Items
- "JIRA Backlog Hour" : Every Weds at 19:00UTC in #dspace IRC we will be working together to tackle our JIRA Backlog of "Received" tickets. This regular meeting will continue until we've been able to catch up on our backlog.
- This week we will review of any unresolved tickets scheduled for 4.1 to see if any are ready for release.
Discussion Topics
- DSpace 4.1 status update
- What is left to be merged?
- Anything waiting on review or waiting on a volunteer to merge?
- Any closer to setting a 4.1 release date?
- Other topics to bring up for discussion? Possible recent discussions/to-do's:
- "Let's talk about Features" Meeting idea (3rd meeting per month) starting in Feb. We probably should announce this in early Feb.
- A Release Schedule Template
- "Requiring Documentation before a PR can be merged". See: New Contribution Template
- Other topics?
Additional Ongoing Topics
- 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)
- Related: Proposal to Update DC Registry and Add DCTERMS Registry Latest page from DCAT with the summary & goals
- AuthN & AuthZ issues, including: DS-1566 and developer meeting on May 2, 2012
- Other DSpace projects receiving mention recently
- "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)
- 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=2014-01-29
Action Items
(Action items go here, if any)
Meeting Archives
Notes and Transcripts from all recent Developers Meetings are available off of the Developer Meeting Archives page.