Developers Meeting on Weds, December 4, 2013

Agenda

Regular Items

• "JIRA Backlog Hour" : Every Weds at 19:00UTC in #dspace IRC we will be working together to tackle our JIRA Backlog of "Received" tickets. This regular meeting will continue until we've been able to catch up on our backlog.
  • NOTE: This week we will use our hour to review the "Fix for 4.0" outstanding issues: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS/fixforversion/11140

Discussion Topics

1. DSpace 4.0 Status check! Where do we stand?
   
   1. "Fix for: 4.0" (to be reviewed the previous hour, starting at 19:00UTC): https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS/fixforversion/11140
      1. Need to schedule a separate "triage meeting".  We still have 30+ tickets needing review.
   2. Other specific tickets to follow up on? Issues? Questions?
   3. DSpace 4.0 Tasks
2. DS-1789 - Search Interfaces (possibly standardizing on Discovery as the interface, with multiple providers)
   
   1. In DSpace 4.0, Discovery is enabled by default
   2. What do we want to do about plain-Lucene support?
      
      1. Option 1: Deprecate it in 4.0, and remove entirely in 5.0
      2. Option 2: Rewrite it so that it can be another provider behind Discovery (alongside Solr and possibly ES)
   3. For 5.0, we could also tentatively plan to release a Discovery on Elastic Search option

Additional Ongoing Topics

1. 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)
       
       • Related: Proposal to Update DC Registry and Add DCTERMS Registry Latest page from DCAT with the summary & goals
     • AuthN & AuthZ issues, including: DS-1566 and developer meeting on May 2, 2012
   • Other DSpace projects receiving mention recently
     
     • "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)
     • 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=2013-12-04

Action Items

(Action items go here, if any)