Developers Meeting on Weds, February 26, 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'll begin by reviewing unresolved tickets marked for 4.1 release

Discussion Topics

1. Quick announcements/notes:
   1. We applied for Google Summer of Code.  Accepted organizations were posted on Monday, Feb 24. We didn't make it.
   2. Tim will be out next week at a DuraSpace all-staff meeting.  Will not be at our meeting on Feb 26. Volunteer to lead the meeting?
2. DSpace 4.1 status update - Tentative release date is Fri, Feb 28.  What do we need to do to wrap up the release?
   1. Unresolved tickets marked for 4.1 release
   2. Issue for discussion (reported via IRC): Metadata for withdrawn items in XMLUI are accessible via DRI. Is this a problem at all? Or should they use private items instead? If it is a problem, can we manage to get a fix into 4.1?
   3. Should we consider  for 4.1?  It's not critical, so it could wait for 5.0 if needed.
3. Other topics to bring up for discussion? Possible recent discussions/to-do's:
   1. "Let's talk about Features" Meeting idea (3rd meeting per month) starting in March?  We did this adhoc last week with the Audio/Video Streaming (RTMP, HLS, DASH) Support discussion.
   2. A Release Schedule Template
   3. "Requiring Documentation before a PR can be merged". See: New Contribution Template
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)
       
       • 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=2014-02-19

Action Items

(Action items go here, if any)