Proposed Meeting Agenda
News
- Remaining 2011 DCAT meeting dates:
- September 13, 2011
- October 11, 2011
- November 8, 2011
- December 13, 2011
- DSpace 1.8 - 1.8.0 Release Notes - feature freeze on August 19!
- DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign: $278k with 47 sponsors so far, 15 of which are new for 2011
- New DSpace Committers
- Remaining 2011 DCAT meeting dates:
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- Repositories and CRIS event in the UK on July 19 - anyone heard anything?
- Repository Fringe - anyone heard anything?
- Other news?
DCAT Review
- New feature review process
- Goal: primary goal of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests in JIRA and to provide support to the DSpace developer/committer group in producing software releases.
- What it is:
- group representing the community which make assessments about new feature requests in JIRA - the relative value and urgency for the broader community
- facilitate community wide discussions on the most useful and urgent new feature requests - the purpose of which is to validate DCAT assessment, flesh out req'mts, most importantly-->find stakeholder/developer resources
- possibly provide communication support (announcements, etc.) to developers/committers for software releases
- collaborate on other projects for the community - user group mtgs, networking, mailing list participation, e-forum, attend weekly developer/committer mtgs
- What it is not:
- a group that dictates work priorities for the developers/committers
- having discussions just to have discussions
- Process overview
- please be sure to vote on each issue - even if it is a "+0"
- attending weekly committer mtg following your issue discussion week is really helpful
- Future discussion schedule
- New issues - Anyone who does not have an issue selected, please come with your selection: DCAT JIRA New Features
- Revised/updated metadata schema - committers have requested our input on what we want out of the box
- Bram has developed a survey
- Phase 1 - DCAT members will all respond to the survey and have discussion (on email list and/or at next mtg)
- Phase 2 - community-wide survey - results from DCAT survey will help focus the public survey
- Feedback Leonie Hayes on this
- Bram has developed a survey
- Update on previously reviewed items
- DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
- patch submitter Jose Blanco is also working on XMLUI version
- Richard Rodgers and Peter Dietz volunteered to review the patch and provide their feedback - Tim and Robyn checking to confirm that Richard and Peter are still able to review
- DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum, JIRA
- virus checking is complete
- file format checking - Richard Rodgers/MIT is working on this and planning for it to be in for 1.8
- DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA
- GSoC project - do away with item-submission.xml and input-forms.xml and instead create an Admin UI that allows repo managers reorganize the submission UI
- Jim and other DCAT members provided specfic requirements list to GSofC list
- Need feedback on steps and proposed admin UI screenshots
- DS-560 XMLUI News in config dir (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA
- XMLUI interface is not as useful as JSPUI for news config, Bram proposed to have a more flexible front page
- Bram to re-send discussion link - all DCAT members to chime in on broadened scope (not just XMLUI, not just news) to come up with a general consensus of the types of optional configurable elements that the community would like to see and/or the functional req'mts (news box, statistics, list of comm/coll, what ever front page needs)
- After we have a consensus, we will hold a community-wide discussion for both feedback and developer resource identification
- DS-456 create easy upgrade scripts (Iryna): discussion forum, JIRA
- no developer assigned yet
- propose writing scripts for the most common database/operating sys
- Database: PostgreSQL 264, MySQL 43, Oracle 39, Other 6
- Operating Sys: Linux 224, Microsoft Windows 88, UNIX 28, Solaris 22, HPUX 2
- Michael to attach scripts to JIRA issue that they have developed
- hold community-wide discussion/solicitation of other upgrade scripts already written or interested parties
- DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
- New feature review process
Meeting Attendees:
- Bram Luyten - @mire
- Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
- Claire Bundy - BioMed Central
- Elena Feinstein - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Elin Stangeland - Cambridge University Library
- Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
- Jennifer Laherty - Indiana University
- Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan
- Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central
- Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace
- Tim Donohue - DuraSpace
- Jonathan Markow - DuraSpace,
OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE ON AUGUST 9, 2011 at 9:00 am Eastern/13:00 GMT