Developers Meeting on Weds, August 10, 2011

Agenda

• First 20+ minutes: JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-874
  • Search for all Unresolved Issues (since DS-874)

• Discussion Topics:
  • Updates on 1.8.0 & any upcoming features, etc.
    • DSpace 1.8.0 Feature Freeze in 9 days (August 19)

• Other Topics for Discussion?

General Reminders

• GSoC General Reminders:
  • GSoC's Weekly Update meeting immediately after this meeting (21:00 UTC)
  • New GSoC Public Mailing List this year (shared with Fedora & DuraCloud):
  • Important Dates (full timeline)
    • May 24: GSoC Begins
    • August 22: GSoC Ends

Topics in the Waiting...

• Topics which are still on the "back burner" (which need someone to lead a "Special Topic" meeting around them)
  • Do we want to schedule a meeting to go over proposed Modularization / Refactoring work in near future?
    • Restructure Trunk Projects
    • Refactoring the DSpace Domain Model
    • Others listed under Development Proposals
  • Discuss improving how DSpace handles Metadata. Several ideas mentioned recently:
    • Updating to current DCMI standards: DS-805
    • Creating a new "dspace" internal usage schema (for administrative, or non-DC metadata)? Formalize the "dc" schema to be strictly valid QDC/DC?
    • Metadata on all DSpace objects (not just Items)
    • Per discussion at OR11, DCAT is going to make recommendations on Metadata Schemas that DSpace should support.
  • Discuss forming a "Documentation Management Team"? Or reworking our procedures for managing/reviewing/approving Docs on the Wiki.
  • More discussion of Proposed RoadMap to 2.0
    • In meantime, feel free to forward thoughts on to Tim or everyone (via dspace-devel or dspace-commit).

Meeting Transcript

• Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2011-08-10