DCAT Meeting Agenda July 12, 2011

Draft Meeting Agenda

1. News

   1. Welcome new members! full DCAT list
   2. Next meeting on August 9
   3. OAI7 update
   4. DSpace 1.8 - 1.8.0 Release Notes - feature freeze on August 19!
   5. DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign: $188k with 32 sponsors so far
   6. Repositories and CRIS event in the UK on July 19
   7. Other news?

2. DCAT Review

   1. New feature review process
      1. Goal: primary goal of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests in JIRA and to provide support to the DSpace developer/committer group in producing software releases.
      2. What it is:
         1. group representing the community which make assessments about new feature requests in JIRA - the relative value and urgency for the broader community 
         2. facilitate community wide discussions on the most useful and urgent new feature requests - the purpose of which is to validate DCAT assessment, flesh out req'mts, most importantly-->find stakeholder/developer resources
         3. possibly provide communication support (announcements, etc.) to developers/committers for software releases
         4. collaborate on other projects for the community - user group mtgs, networking, mailing list participation, e-forum, attend weekly developer/committer mtgs
      3. What it is not:
         1. a group that dictates work priorities for the developers/committers
         2. having discussions just to have discussions
      4. Process overview
         1. please be sure to vote on each issue - even if it is a "+0"
         2. attending weekly committer mtg following your issue discussion week is really helpful
      5. Future discussion schedule
      6. New issues - Anyone who does not have an issue selected, please come with your selection: DCAT JIRA New Features
   2. Revised/updated metadata schema - committers have requested our input
   3. Update on previously reviewed items
      1. DS-560 XMLUI News in config dir (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA
         1. XMLUI interface is not as useful as JSPUI for news config, Bram proposed to have a more flexible front page
         2. Can we come up with a general consensus of the types of optional configurable elements that the community would like to see and/or the functional req'mts (news box, statistics, list of comm/coll, what ever front page needs)?
      2. DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
         1. Richard Rodgers and Peter Dietz volunteered to review the patch and provide their feedback
         2. patch submitter Jose Blanco is also working on XMLUI version
      3. DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum, JIRA
         1. virus checking - Robin Taylor has added a few patches to address request, waiting on other developers to review
         2. file format checking - Richard Rodgers is working on this, Robin hoping to use his work, will be in for 1.8
      4. DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA
         1. GSoC project - do away with item-submission.xml and input-forms.xml and instead create an Admin UI that allows repo managers reorganize the submission UI
         2. Jim and other DCAT members provided specfic requirements list to GSofC list
         3. Anything currently from GSoC list that we need to give feedback on?
      5. DS-456 create easy upgrade scripts (Iryna): discussion forum, JIRA

3. Meeting Attendees:

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OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE ON AUGUST 9, 2011 at 9:00 am Eastern/13:00 GMT