Developers Meeting on Weds, Feb 11, 2015

JIRA Backlog Hour: 16:00 UTC in #dspace IRC, i.e. one hour AFTER the meeting. During that hour, we will be working together to tackle our JIRA Backlog of "Received" tickets.
DSpace Developers Meeting: 15:00 UTC in #duraspace IRC

Agenda

Discussion Topics

DSpace 5.1 release in coming week or so. Get those bugs fixed & into the codebase!
Google Summer of Code 2015 organization applications are due Fri, Feb 20. Do we want to apply?
Other topics?
1. Confirm that the separation is a good idea. Is the proposed naming clear?
2. There are several nice package builders to support batch ingestion, but none "in the box". Should we try to adopt one? Which one? What would be our selection criteria?

Ongoing Discussions

Looking beyond DSpace 5, what sort of UI(s) would we want for the future?
1. The new DSpace Steering Group has noted that it seems unsustainable to maintain two UIs forever.
2. Both our UIs are rather dated platforms (JSPUI = base code is 13+ years old, XMLUI = 7+ years old). There are lots of newer, easier to user Java and non-Java UI platforms.
3. Brainstorms on a Future UI is the beginning of some very rough ideas of what UI platforms exist out there, and what is important to us in a UI. None of this is "set in stone", and it's all just a brainstorm on "If we had to choose again now, what do we feel is the best UI platform to help DSpace remain a relevant, vibrant project for 5-10 more years."

(Action items go here, if any)