Developers Meeting on Weds, November 28, 2012

Agenda

Regular Items

• JIRA Reviews – starting with issue DS-1082
  • Search for all Unresolved Issues (since DS-1082)

• 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:
  
  • Today at 4:00 pm EST (21:00 UTC) – after this meeting.

Discussion Topics

1. 3.0 Release Outstanding Tasks (each of these are detailed in Release Procedure as well)
   
   • Squash any last tickets or reschedule ones that can be - List of unresolved bugs in 3.0
   • Finalize release date (Tomorrow? Fri?)
   • 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, 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
     • Tim is working on updates to LICENSES_THIRD_PARTY file
   • Perform actual 3.0 Release (Hardy Pottinger volunteered)
   • Draft 3.0 Release Announcement & Send out (Sands volunteered)
2. Other topics?

Additional Ongoing Topics

1. 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).
2. 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

Individual Status Updates

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

Meeting Notes

Meeting Transcript

• Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2012-11-28

Action Items

(Action items go here, if any)