Developers Meeting on Weds, Mar 23, 2016

Today's Meeting Times

JIRA Backlog Hour: 16:00 UTC in #dspace IRC, i.e. one hour AFTER the meeting. During that hour, we will be working together to tackle our JIRA Backlog of "Received" tickets.
DSpace Developers Meeting: 15:00 UTC in #duraspace IRC

REMINDER: Because of daylight savings time in the USA, 15:00 UTC is now one hour later (11:00am EDT).

Agenda

Discussion Topics

DSpace UI Prototype Challenge : next mtg on Thurs
1. Summary at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bvJrRWEO2ZLTCLqNiaJ_KXGZKHNfXDjnqHWt_ZYGek4/edit
2. At the DuraSpace Summit, Steering group members decided that we should move forward with an "expanded client-side prototype", to investigate a possible solution with Angular.js 2 and Spring Boot. More info coming soon.
DSpace 6.0 Status
1. Schedule for 6.0
  1. What seems reasonable? How do we make major strides towards RC1 & Testathon? Currently, we have:
    1. One outstanding feature PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1162
    2. Seven outstanding "Blocker" bugs: https://jira.duraspace.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20DS%20AND%20status%20in%20(Received%2C%20%22More%20Details%20Needed%22%2C%20%22Volunteer%20Needed%22%2C%20%22Code%20Review%20Needed%22%2C%20Accepted)%20AND%20priority%20%3D%20Blocker
    3. Nine outstanding "Improvement" PRs: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3A6.0+label%3Aimprovement
    4. Eleven outstanding "code task" PRs: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3A6.0+label%3A%22code+task%22
2. All the PRs flagged for 6.0 (some may need rescheduling): https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3A6.0
3. Tim needs help trying to keep this release on-schedule. Anyone willing to chip in on helping getting this release moving forward? We especially need "testers" (of all the outstanding above PRs)!
Other topics?

(Action items go here, if any)