Developers Meeting on Weds, October 10, 2012

Agenda

Regular Items

• JIRA Reviews – starting with issue DS-1082
  • Search for all Unresolved Issues (since DS-1082)

• Forgoing JIRA review for now to spend time on 3.0 & Testathon. Specific JIRA tickets can be brought up as needed.

Discussion Topics

1. 3.0 Release Testathon
   
   1. Any last things to clean up or take care of?
   2. SourceForge – should we still put release downloads up on SourceForge
      
      1. Pros: Sourceforge provides nice download stats/charts. GitHub doesn't (the best GitHub can do is give you a grand total).
         
         1. Also, it seems like there's no easy way to tell folks who find DSpace on SourceForge that the latest releases can be downloaded over on GitHub.
      2. Cons: It's another place to post releases to.
   3. DS-1277 : helix84 has suggested to have http://demo.dspace.org/ feedback form send to a different JIRA project.  Thoughts? Alternatives?
2. Other topics?

Additional Ongoing Topics

1. How can we "catch up" with JIRA Backlog?
   • Do we need to "split up" the tickets & do quick reviews on our own? Or perhaps just split up tickets & do a very quick ranking & schedule ones with patches for 3.0?
   • Perhaps we schedule a "JIRA Backlog Bash" event (via IRC or similar) where we work together to decrease the backlog over a few days or a week (think of this like a "Test-a-thon" but instead we'd be working to just clear out the backlog as best we can).
2. 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)
     • AuthN & AuthZ issues, including: DS-994, DS-1006, DS-1007, DS-1088, and developer meeting on May 2, 2012
   • 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.

Meeting Notes

Meeting Transcript

• Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2012-10-03

Action Items

(Action items go here, if any)