Developers Meeting on Weds, January 22, 2014

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.
  • This week we will continue our review of any 4.0 closed tickets marked "Docs Needed" to ensure they all were appropriately documented.

Discussion Topics

1. DSpace 4.1?
   1.   - There is a possible fix / PR.  Is this fix alone worth scheduling a 4.1 release for?
   2. Other bug fixes we may wish to get into 4.1?
      1. 
2. Other topics to bring up for discussion? Possible recent discussions/to-do's:
   1. A Release Schedule Template
   2. "Requiring Documentation before a PR can be merged". See: New Contribution Template
   3. "Let's talk about Features" Meeting idea (3rd meeting per month) starting in Feb.
3. 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)
       
       • Related: Proposal to Update DC Registry and Add DCTERMS Registry Latest page from DCAT with the summary & goals
     • AuthN & AuthZ issues, including: DS-1566 and developer meeting on May 2, 2012
   • Other DSpace projects receiving mention recently
     
     • "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)
     • 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=2014-01-22

Action Items

(Action items go here, if any)