Developers Meeting on Weds, November 21, 2012

Agenda

Regular Items

Forgoing JIRA review for now to spend time on 3.0 & Testathon. Specific JIRA tickets can be brought up as needed.

Reminder: DSpace Committer & DCAT joint meeting on "DSpace Future Directions" discussions (which have been going on with DSpace Sponsors over the last month). Try to attend one of these meetings:
- Tues, Nov 20 at 10:00 am EST (15:00 UTC), OR
- Weds, Nov 28 at 4:00 pm EST (21:00 UTC)

Discussion Topics

3.0 Release
1. List of unresolved bugs in 3.0
2. Discuss release date (tentative for Nov 27) & possibly finalize
3. Split up final Release Tasks (see below
3.0 Outstanding Tasks
- Squash any last tickets or reschedule ones that can be
- Finalize release date
- Release language packs (dspace-api-lang & dspace-xmlui-lang), preferably one day before final release.
- Final updates to Documentation
  - IMPORTANT: Ensure the "Preface" page is fully updated for 3.0 (Tim did some updates before 3.0RC2, but it needs a second look)
  - Final check of Install & Upgrade Documentation
- Export Documentation to PDF & commit to GitHub
- Update all README, LICENSE* files in GitHub
- Perform actual 3.0 Release (Hardy Pottinger volunteered)
Other topics?

Additional Ongoing Topics

How can we "catch up" with JIRA Backlog?
- Do we need to "split up" the tickets & do quick reviews on our own? Or perhaps just split up tickets & do a very quick ranking & schedule ones with patches for 3.0?
- Perhaps we schedule a "JIRA Backlog Bash" event (via IRC or similar) where we work together to decrease the backlog over a few days or a week (think of this like a "Test-a-thon" but instead we'd be working to just clear out the backlog as best we can).
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)
  - AuthN & AuthZ issues, including: DS-994, DS-1006, DS-1007, DS-1088, and developer meeting on May 2, 2012
- 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

If you have status items to report, please enter them below at least 1 hour before the meeting starts.

(Action items go here, if any)