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Meeting Schedule and Attendance

Overview

DSpace Developer DSpace Committer meetings are a time when Committers and interested Developers can discuss new software features, upcoming releases of DSpace software, and generally plan out the roadmap of DSpace. All meetings are public. We welcome anyone and everyone to attend, speak their opinions or just listen in on the discussions. Please note that we archive all discussions (see Meeting Archives below), as a service for those who are unable to attend.

Meeting Schedule 

DSpace Committer Developer meetings take place on the following schedule:

• Every Wednesday at 20:00 UTC/GMT in #duraspace IRC channel (unless announced otherwise on the dspace-devel listserv)
• All meetings are held for 1 hour (although, admittedly, discussion sometimes extends beyond that)

See the world clock to determine the meeting time where you live.

Jira Cleanup Sessions

When the agenda for a meeting allows for it, occasionally a DSpace Committers meeting will begin with a quick review and cleanup of recent issues logged in DSpace JIRA. We use the following process for a quick review of JIRA issues.

The session (usually 15-30 minutes) is led by two developers:

• A 'feeder' to copy and paste the next issue and link in, to start the review of that issue
• A 'completer' to analyse the votes and comments at the end of the minute to draw it to a consensus

Each new issue will be introduced by the 'feeder' once the previous issue has been concluded. A new issue will be introduced in this general format:

http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-245 - Checksum Checker reports on bitstreams which do not have "in_archive" status]

Each participant will then have approximately one minute to read that page, and decide how they think the issue should be dealt with. There are three options for voting:

• +1: If you think the issue is important and should stay in JIRA.
• 0: If you do not know, or are not well-enough informed about the issue
• -1: If you think the issue should be closed. If you vote -1, please append a reason such as:
  • -1 Out of scope: If the issue is out of scope for core DSpace
  • -1 Out of date: If the issue is not now pertinent to the community
  • -1 Duplicate DS-xxx: If the issue is is a duplicate of another issue
  • -1 Won't fix: If the issue does not need fixing

If you require more time to read and understand the issue, please say 'more time'. If several people say this, the time allocated to the issue can be extended at the discretion of the 'completer'.

Please vote with a '0' rather than staying silent if you have no opinion on an issue. That way the completer knows that, rather than waiting for a vote.

Last Issue Reviewed

• From JIRA Search (of issues created in last 6 weeks that are still "Open")

• Last Issue Reviewed: DS-496 (Reviewed during meeting on 2010-Mar-24)

Voting Procedures

Occasionally during meetings, larger decisions need to be made or small disagreements will occur. In these cases, the DSpace Committers will attempt to come to a consensus by bringing the topic to a vote. Currently, the following voting procedures are in place, as decided unanimously by the DSpace Committers in the Spring of 2009.

The DSpace Committers follow the Apache Voting Process.

Votes can be called either during meetings or via email. There are three main votes that can be made:

• +1 : positive, "I agree"
• 0 : neutral, "I'm undecided, or unsure"
• -1 : negative, "I disagree" (should always include a reason why you disagree)

In a general sense, there are three types of votes that may take place:

1. Votes on code modifications - proposals require at least three positive (+1) votes, and no negative votes (-1) to pass
2. Votes on a new release - proposals require a majority are in favor (and at least three +1 votes have been cast)
3. Votes on procedural/policy changes - proposals require more positive (+1) than negative (-1) votes

Further details of some of the intricacies of these voting procedures can be found in the Apache Voting Process.

Meeting Archives

All DSpace Committer meetings and the discussions pertaining within are archived. Below is an archive of the discussions which took place during each meeting.

• 2010-Mar-24 - Wiki Migration next week, April's Special Topic Meeting on "DSpace RoadMap", 1.6.1 release (Kim Shepherd is RC)
• 2010-Mar-17 - Committer Mtg at OR2010?, Scheduling 1.7 for Dec 2010.
• 2010-Mar-10 - Special+Topics Meeting on DSpace Release Process Proposals.
• 2010-Mar-03 - Congrats on 1.6! Google+Summer+of+Code, Call for new Committers
• 2010-Feb-17 - 1.6 Testathon Updates, JIRA Review, No Mtg next week!
• 2010-Feb-10 - 1.6 Release Schedule, JIRA Review, Special+Topics Mtgs
• 2010-Feb-03 - 1.6 Updates, GSOC, Proposals for Release Process changes
• 2010-Jan-27 - 1.6 Updates, gearing up for 1.6RC2
• 2010-Jan-20 - 1.6 Status Updates, reassigned outstanding issues (Full Transcript attached to this email message)
• 2010-Jan-13 - 1.6 Updates, Proposed Wiki and dspace-general migrations
• 2010-Jan-06 - JIRA Review, 1.6 Updates
• 2009-Dec-16
• 2009-Dec-09
• 2009-Nov-25
• 2009-Nov-18
• 2009-Nov-11
• 2009-Nov-04
• 2009-Oct-28
• 2009-Oct-21
• 2009-Oct-07
• 2009-Sep-30
• 2009-Sep-23
• 2009-Sep-16
• 2009-Sep-09
• 2009-Sep-02
• 2009-Aug-26
• 2009-Aug-19
• 2009-Aug-12
• 2009-Aug-05
• 2009-Jul-29
• 2009-Jul-22
• 2009-Jul-15
• 2009-Jul-08
• 2009-Jul-01

Old Archives

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• Thursday (except where noted in agendas) from 15:00-16:00 UTC (10am-11am EST) in https://lyrasis.zoom.us/my/dspace?pwd=RTk4QUhISnhPRi9YenVrTFJKbDllQT09 (Meeting ID: 502 527 3040). 
  • Additional connection options (phone, etc) detailed at DSpace Meeting Room.
  • To determine which time we are meeting at during a given week, please view the DSpace Public Events Calendar (iCal version).  You can also subscribe to the meeting schedule via that calendar.
  • Also, see the world clock to determine the meeting time where you live.
• All meetings are held for 1 hour. 
• Slack is used for meeting reminders, sharing agendas and day-to-day discussions.
  
  • #dev:  For ongoing, day-to-day (between meetings) updates / discussions / questions.
  • #angular-ui : For DSpace (Angular) UI updates, discussions and/or questions.
  • #rest-api : For DSpace REST API updates, discussions and/or questions.

Meeting topics often include:

• Recent updates on upcoming DSpace releases, bug fixes or features
• Reviewing of recent reported issues/bugs/feature requests
• Occasionally we vote or make decisions on upcoming DSpace technology plans/roadmap (see Developer Voting Procedures for more info)

If you are unable to attend a meeting, please feel free to add your own notes/comments to the meeting's wiki page.

Meeting Archives

Historical Notes and Transcripts from all Developers Meetings are available off of the Developer Meeting Archives page.

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