Developers Meeting on Weds, May 1, 2013

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.
• REMINDER: Signup if you plan to attend the OR13 DSpace Developer Mtg  (on Monday, July 8 before OR13)

Discussion Topics

1. Pull Request Reviews (first 10 minutes or so) - Starting with #94
2. Any DSpace 3.2 updates to speak of?  (DECIDED: 3.2 is "on hold" unless significant bugs are located that need immediate resolution)
   
   1. DS-1528 (Build.properties doesn't support UTF-8 encoding) - More eyes may be needed (Tim is running short of ideas on this one)
   2. Other minor issues worth fixing before 4.0?
3. DSpace 4.0 planning
   
   1. Volunteers to be members of  the 4.0 Release Team?
   2. Need to start thinking about our possible release timeline, and whether there's anything we want to change from the 3.0 release timeline.
   3. Obviously may want to think about trying to steer some of the DSpace Futures stuff (REST API, DC Registry updates) towards 4.0
4. Other topics?

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)
     • AuthN & AuthZ issues, including:DS-367, 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=2013-05-01

Action Items

(Action items go here, if any)