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The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
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Meeting Schedule and Attendance
DSpace Developer meetings are a time when Committers and interested Developers can discuss new software features, upcoming releases of DSpace software, and generally plan out the roadmap of DSpace. All meetings are public. We welcome anyone and everyone to attend, speak their opinions or just listen in on the discussions. Please note that we archive all discussions (see Meeting Archives), as a service for those who are unable to attend.
DSpace Developer meetings take place on the following schedule:
- Every Wednesday at 20:00 UTC in #duraspace IRC channel
- All meetings are held for 1 hour (although, admittedly, discussion sometimes extends beyond that)
See the world clock to determine the meeting time where you live. If you are unsure how to connect to IRC, see our list of IRC Resources & Clients
This meeting schedule is also available via the DuraSpace Public Events Calendar (iCal, RSS Feed).
Meeting topics often include:
- Recent updates on upcoming DSpace releases, bug fixes or features
- Reviewing of recent reported issues/bugs/feature requests (see JIRA Cleanup Sessions for more info)
- Occasionally we vote or make decisions on upcoming DSpace technology plans/roadmap (see Developer Voting Procedures for more info)
If you are unable to attend a meeting, please feel free to add your own notes/comments to the meeting's wiki page.
Developers Meeting on Weds, March 14, 2012
Agenda
Regular Items
- JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-958
General Reminders
- Feel free to keep adding ideas to DSpace GSoC Ideas Page. We should hear on Friday if we are accepted to GSoC'12
Discussion Topics
- GitHub Migration
- Do we just leave the main DSpace/DSpace GitHub repo as-is? The only way to properly re-map all SVN Users -> GitHub Users would be to recreate it.
- Volunteers to help with Migration?
- Revisiting Virtual Summit
- Very successful meeting, with a nice list of "Actionable Takeaways"
- Any thoughts on how many times would we like to hold this Summit per year? Once (Jan/Feb)? Twice (Jan and May/June)? Three times (Jan, May & Sept)?
- Any other feedback to mention?
- 3.0 Release
- We still need a "team leader" for our Release Team.
- Current Release Team (all volunteered in Fall): Hardy P, Sands F, Kim S, Robin T
- Any other potential features folks want to add?
- We still need a "team leader" for our Release Team.
- Other topics?
Additional Ongoing Topics
- Brainstorming Features/Changes for 3.0. 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)
- 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
- Larger DSpace projects which seem to have a lot of recent support:
Individual Status Updates
If you have status items to report, please enter them below at least 1 hour before the meeting starts.
- Peter Dietz
- Have pushed the git source code for Ohio State University's DSpace Repository (The Knowledge Bank) to GitHub. See the OSU Knowledge Bank fork of DSpace.
- Have documented some of our XMLUI themes in use at Ohio State. Doc has lots of screenshots and links to our live site, and to the code.
- Have been working on using Elastic Search for DSpace UsageEvents. Am now starting to build reports (Top 10 Downloads to Collection) from Elastic Search data.
Meeting Notes
JIRA Review, Detailed discussion of GitHub migration
Meeting Transcript
- Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2012-03-14
Action Items
Action items coming out of this meeting go here, if any.
- TODO - Update the ReleaseCoordinating page to better outline Release Processes
- Add "Update this document with lessons learned" as the final task of any release.
Meeting Archives
Notes and Transcripts from all recent Developers Meetings are available off of the Developer Meeting Archives page.