Guidelines for Committing – draft attempting to describe our current code-committing guidelines. Do all committers agree this accurately describes our current best-practices?
Migrating Documentation from DocBook to Confluence for 1.7.0 release
There's been great initial work by Mark Diggory & Jeff Trimble to investigate this. It seems relatively straightforward, and both Mark & Jeff seem to be in favor.
We'd likely want to separate these official documentation pages from the normal wiki (they'd likely be in a different Confluence "Space"), so that they can be more tightly managed/watched. At least initially, it's likely only committers & other trusted DSpace community members/developers will have access to modify the official Documentation area of the wiki.
Robin Taylor will help us establish some clearer guidelines on JIRA usage to go with these
Migrating Docs to Wiki for 1.7
General approval that migrating official documentation to Wiki is a good thing – less work for Jeff Trimble (our docu guru), and gives opportunities for others to help in writing/editing our docs
Need to determine workflow for who gets access to edit these docs? Hopefully, we can allow anyone we generally trust not to add malicious/spam content (but they will need to request access from someone first)?
Post Meeting Discussion
Discussion on how to better utilize JIRA – reviewing of JIRA issues always seems to "fall off the plate" in these meetings. We never have enough downtime to perform these reviews
Perhaps add a new "Received" step (before "Open"), which will let us all know which issues still need reviewing. We could assign someone to review issues, or generally review them ad hoc – and keep meetings specific to only reviewing major issues or suggested patches/fixes for issues.
Action Items
Continue work to migrate docs to wiki for 1.7.0 – Jeff & Mark D are already leading this work
Robin Taylor will help establish JIRA usage guidelines and perhaps establish a new JIRA workflow