Developers Meeting on Weds, September 8, 2010

Agenda

JIRA Catch-Up (for first 20 mins or so of meeting) – starting with issue DS-612
- Search for recent JIRA Issues
DSpace 1.7 Features/Updates
- Unclaimed 1.7 Issues/Potential Features in JIRA
- Other updates ???
Test Driven Development / Committer Policies
- As Committers, should we now require Unit Testing changes as part of our Guidelines for Committing?
- These would be similar to Documentation requirements, though may be slightly looser early on (as our Unit Test coverage is only currently limited to the core API). For example:
  - "All changes to core API must pass existing Unit Tests. Existing Unit Tests must also be updated when new methods are added to core API."
  - "New features are highly recommended to provide Unit Tests where plausible."

JIRA Catchup, 1.7 Updates & Schedule Reminder, Test Driven Development Policies

JIRA Catchup – ended with issue DS-616
DSpace 1.7 Updates & Schedule
- Schedule: Feature Freeze in 6 weeks (Oct 22)
- Many unclaimed issues still. Volunteer if you can!
- Richard Rodgers working on Curation code & XMLUI inteface (see branch at: http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/branches/dspace-curation/)
- Mark Diggory working on Async Release Process changes (see discussion on DevMtg 2010-09-01 as well as prototype at: http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/sandbox/dspace-async-prototype/ )
Brief mention of Test Driven Development & Committer Polices. Some positive feedback, but needs to be voted on.
Tim will be out of the office next week. Peter Dietz will lead meeting.