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Developers Meeting before OR10 on Mon, July 5, 2010

Logistics

  • Location: UNED (the University), Facultad de Humanidades (Room B)
    • Google Map: Edificio de Humanidades - UNED
    • How to Get There: (copied from info provided in above Google Map):
      • From Moncloa Metro stop: 15/20 mins nice walk through the "Parque del Oeste"
      • Metro + bus :
        1. Metro "Moncloa" + Bus: 160, 161 o "A" (all Stops at Avenida de Séneca)
        2. Metro "Príncipe Pío " + Bus 46 (Stop: Senda del Rey - Obispo Trejo, in front of "Facultad de Derecho")
  • Time: Meeting is scheduled from 12pm-6pm
  • Other Items of Interest:
    • Fedora Committers will be meeting in same building (they are meeting 10am-6pm). No joint meeting planned on Mon, but we will have opportunities to introduce ourselves/socialize both at lunch and at the bar/tapas in evening.
    • Lunch will be provided (1:30pm-2:30pm)
    • We will break to bar & tapas around 6pm
    • Supposedly there are coffee / snacks to be had nearby (and we will take breaks to re-energizer)
  • NOTE: This meeting directly conflicts with PASIG. PASIG is 8:30am-5pm on Monday

General Agenda

Although there are specific times listed, we can rearrange sessions a bit as necessary. The times are more to help make sure we get around to discussing all topics.

12-1pm : Intros, Overview & Brief Updates

  • Intros & Overview – our meeting "ground rules" (smile)** Changes to agenda? We should not be bound by this proposed agenda – we could always turn it into an 'unconference' of sorts, or reorganize topics.
  • Past reflection on 1.6.x releases:
    • What have we learned?
    • What went well, what could we improve?

1:30-2:30pm

  • Lunch is provided

2:30-3:15pm : Discussion of Current/Ongoing Projects

  • GSoC project updates (Mark Diggory)
  • 2.0 integration work (Mark Diggory)
    • Overview of DSpace Addon Module Design and Spring
    • Discussion of Storage Services and Storage Providers as an addition to 1.7
    • Discussion on Solr Integration and Unified Search/Browse as an addition to 1.7
  • AipBackupRestorePrototype / DuraCloud integration project (DuraSpace & MIT & IUPUI) (Tim Donohue)
  • 1.7 planning (what's in it?)

~3:15pm - Break

3:30-4:45pm : Discussion of RoadMap for Future

  • Fedora integration proposal (Tim Donohue)
  • Longer-Term Questions:
    • Source / binary distributions (what should/shouldn't be included?)
    • Should all webapps/UIs remain out of the box? (JSPUI, XMLUI, OAI, SWORD, LNI, SOLR)
    • How do we make upgrades/installs/configuration easier?

~4:45pm - Break

5-6pm : Discussion of Integrations / Communications with others

  • SWORD updates (Stuart Lewis? or Richard Jones?)
  • Community Advisory Team & DSpace Global Outreach Committee (Val Hollister & Tim Donohue)

~6pm

  • Head to bar (with Fedora Committers) for Beer/Sangria/Tapas

Attendance / Availability

  • Tim Donohue – available all day.
  • Stuart Lewis – available all day.
  • Claudia Jürgen - not attending the OR10
  • Robin Taylor - not arriving until mid-afternoon.
  • Andrea Bollini - arriving at 3pm
  • Peter Dietz – available all day.
  • Keith Gilbertson – available all day.
  • Graham Triggs - available all day.
  • Richard Jones - will try to make it to the meeting at some point in the afternoon
  • Richard Rodgers – available all day.
  • Mark Diggory – available all day.
  • Ben Bosman – available in afternoon.
  • Brad McLean – will join in afternoon.
  • Val Hollister – will join for most/all of day.

Notes

  • 1.6 Discussion
    • Did we branch too soon – no activity in Trunk besides 1.7 (Stuart)
      • No decision on what we wanted in 1.7? (Mark D)
    • 1.6 is "put to bed"
    • We didn't test the Handle Server – now seems fixed with demo.dspace.org
    • Too much of a bottleneck for Jeff Trimble on Documentation. The model is right, and we'd like to expand.
      • We should be more proactive to find people like Jeff.
    • Demo.dspace.org is 'great' – need to develop more test practices.
      • Is there a way to encourage testathon interaction (need more feedback?). First one was great – been a bit downhill since then. Do repo managers feel it is "too hard". Rebranding? What's the positive "reward" – how to you incentivize them? (It works well when people are excited about it). A top ten testers – or a drawing based on number of bugs? Talk to Val – does Global Outreach have ideas on incentives???
      • Automated testing from GSoC
        • Integration testing
        • Performance testing is a need (small / medium / large reference datasets – how to build these / IP issues? Repository Manager??? Talk to Global Outreach committee)
  • Documentation 1.6
    • Confluence docs
    • Snapshot versions a problem for Fedora side?
      • Exports to HTML and PDF
    • "Hard Stop" to move just to Confluence based Docs (move back to SVN)
    • How do we make sure all patches have documentation before commits?
      • Move original wiki page off to docs area
  • Handle Server plugin – difficult to do migrations (have to sync up handle IP change with migration) – blind assumption that it's always running on same server as DSpace (Richard Rodgers)
      • Should be replaced with a Service call (HTTP REST?) – any processing/slowdown here, likely not?
      • Related to REST GSoC project?
    • Graham has rewritten code entirely – one handle service that responds for all prefixes
    • Decoupling is necessary – all in agreement
    • CNRI Handle Server 7.0
      • Anything we need to know about on our end
      • Decoupling for a future hosting service (DuraSpace hosting it for small sites?)
  • GSoC projects
    • No transition from GSoC to codebase
    • Trying a team strategy – are we being successful or not?
      • Projects may need to get off the ground a bit before they can successfully collaborate...
    • JIRA not being used afterall (too much work?) – group meeting amongst students difficult to schedule (logistics / attendance difficult)
    • Varying levels in participation amongst the mentors / varying styles in mentoring
    • Overviews of projects
    • Are there ways to create face-to-face opportunities (OR, DSUG, have them present??). Should the money coming back to DuraSpace be funneled back to the Students (fund one to go to a conference)? Traditionally, most GSoC projects give the money to the mentors? That could be an option to get more mentors involved?
    • How to move these into Trunk easily? Take them as they come.
    • ToDo: Full meeting on Discussion of Commit Rights & Committer Governance models. Should we still be called "committers", or give out commit rights more liberally.
  • Modules
    • Dependencies from Trunk directly to Modules directory
    • Need to make this less "muddy"
    • TODO: Full meeting on Discussion of how we should split these "service boundaries" – so how do we want to manage trunk & modules.
  • TODO: Where do we all stand on asynchronous module releases?? (Mark Diggory)
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