Developers Meeting on Weds, March 14, 2012

Agenda

Regular Items

• JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-958
  • Search for all Unresolved Issues (since DS-958)

General Reminders

• Feel free to keep adding ideas to DSpace GSoC Ideas Page. We should hear on Friday if we are accepted to GSoC'12

Discussion Topics

1. GitHub Migration
   • Do we just leave the main DSpace/DSpace GitHub repo as-is? The only way to properly re-map all SVN Users -> GitHub Users would be to recreate it.
   • Volunteers to help with Migration?
2. Revisiting Virtual Summit
   • Very successful meeting, with a nice list of "Actionable Takeaways"
   • Any thoughts on how many times would we like to hold this Summit per year? Once (Jan/Feb)? Twice (Jan and May/June)? Three times (Jan, May & Sept)?
   • Any other feedback to mention?
3. 3.0 Release
   • We still need a "team leader" for our Release Team.
     • Current Release Team (all volunteered in Fall): Hardy P, Sands F, Kim S, Robin T
   • Any other potential features folks want to add?
4. Other topics?

Additional Ongoing Topics

1. Brainstorming Features/Changes for 3.0. 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)
   • 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.

• Peter Dietz
  • Have pushed the git source code for Ohio State University's DSpace Repository (The Knowledge Bank) to GitHub. See the OSU Knowledge Bank fork of DSpace.
  • Have documented some of our XMLUI themes in use at Ohio State. Doc has lots of screenshots and links to our live site, and to the code.
  • Have been working on using Elastic Search for DSpace UsageEvents. Am now starting to build reports (Top 10 Downloads to Collection) from Elastic Search data.

Meeting Notes

Meeting Transcript

• Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2012-03-14

Action Items

Action items coming out of this meeting go here, if any.

• TODO - Update the ReleaseCoordinating page to better outline Release Processes
  • Add "Update this document with lessons learned" as the final task of any release.