Developers Meeting on Weds, April 23, 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.

Discussion Topics

1. Announcements / Notes:
   1. Open Repositories 2014 face-to-face Committers/Developers Meeting:
      1. Monday June 9 @ 9:00AM. More details at: https://www.conftool.com/or2014/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=81
      2. Sign up sheet & agenda ideas coming soon
   2. Still in search of a few more DSpace 5.0 Release Team members.  If interested, get in touch.
2. DSpace rough draft "Product Plan" in the works in next few months (requested by our new DSpace Steering Group) and to be presented at OR14
   1. Small group (six members, all DCAT & Committers) is drafting up a rough "Product Plan". Goal is to bring together the DSpace Vision with perceived core use cases and feature sets.
      1. NOTE: this will not be an implementation plan or technical roadmap. Instead, it's simply a set of use cases / feature sets which DSpace should strive for, and a high-level plan for how we might propose achieving those goals (e.g. would we need more resources, etc.).
   2. Product Plan will be presented to Steering Group (May 8-9) and also will be reviewed and commented on by Committers & DCAT.
   3. Work has begun at: DSpace 2014 Product Plan  (We will announce when it's ready for feedback/review, still actively being updated in the coming weeks)
3. Status check on 4.2 and 3.3
   1. 3.3 tentative for April 25 (this week?)
   2. 4.2 - will do a review of open tickets marked for "4.2".  Hopefully release in early-to-mid May?
4. Followup on IRC meeting time.  No significant feedback as of yet. Do we want to try one early meeting and see what happens?
5. Other topics to bring up for discussion?

Additional Ongoing Topics

1. 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

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=2014-04-23

Action Items

(Action items go here, if any)