Developers Meeting on Weds, October 17, 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.

Discussion Topics

3.0 Release Testathon
1. How is the testing going for everyone?
2. List of bugs found in 3.0
Test failure for testRegisterServiceClass(org.dspace.servicemanager.DSpaceServiceManagerTest). From discussion on dspace-release (can't find a link to it) Robin Taylor and Kevin Van de Velde are investigating. The test used to work with the old Spring Framework, there is just something a bit off with how the test interacts with Spring, from the looks of things. Perhaps if the test can be rewritten to avoid this problematic aspect of Spring, but still test that beans are being created? This test failure is preventing us from cutting a RC2. Demo.dspace.org has been updated to the most recent master, by ignoring the results of this test failure.
Would there be any interest in moving one or two themes (mainly Mirage, maybe something else) into its own GitHub repository? This would facilitate including themes as submodules in Git, and would make trading theme code much more straightforward.
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

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