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Meeting Schedule and Attendance

DSpace Developer 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), as a service for those who are unable to attend.

DSpace Developer meetings take place on the following schedule:

  • Every Wednesday at 20:00 UTC in #duraspace IRC channel
  • All meetings are held for 1 hour (although, admittedly, discussion sometimes extends beyond that)

NOTE: During Google Summer of Code 2011 (May 24 through August 22), we will have an additional DSpace GSoC meeting immediately after our normal Developer Meeting:

  • Every Wednesday at 21:00 UTC in #duraspace IRC channel
  • This GSoC meeting will concentrate on updates & discussion of all DSpace GSoC projects

See the world clock to determine the meeting time where you live. If you are unsure how to connect to IRC, see our list of IRC Resources & Clients

This meeting schedule is also available via the DuraSpace Public Events Calendar (iCal, RSS Feed).

Meeting topics often include:

  • Recent updates on upcoming DSpace releases, bug fixes or features
  • Reviewing of recent reported issues/bugs/feature requests (see JIRA Cleanup Sessions for more info)
  • 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.

Developers Meeting on Weds, August 24, 2011

Agenda

Entire Meeting will be devoted towards 1.8.0

Areas we can use help in coming weeks

Here's where we currently stand with 1.8.0:

  • Outstanding issues/features (may still be "in" or "out"):
    • Tombstone Messages & Withdrawal Reason (DS-587, DS-969, DS-1004)
    • Creative Commons Web Service API with the Submission Process (DS-964)
    • Maven 3 Issues (DS-881)
  • Current Known Major New Features (as of today):
    • Configurable Reviewer Workflow (@mire)
    • XMLUI SWORD Client (Robin Taylor)
    • Media RSS Support – for iTunesU & similar (Peter Dietz)
    • Reordering of Bitstreams (DS-749) (Kevin Van de Velde)
  • Current Known Major Improvements in 1.8.0:
    • Split up 'dspace.cfg' file into various [dspace]/config/module/ configurations, to make them easier to manage
    • Upgraded Lucene & Solr to most recent versions
    • Improved Discovery Configuration
    • (Hopefully, we'll finally fix that annoying lack of 404 bug in XMLUI (DS-768). Kim Shepherd seems to be on track to do so)
  • Features which will be released as "AddOns" after 1.8.0
    • REST API (alpha or beta release)
    • Replication Task Suite (DS-876)
    • Check files on input for viruses, and verify file format (DS-638)

Topics in the Waiting...

  • Topics which are still on the "back burner" (which need someone to lead a "Special Topic" meeting around them)
    • Do we want to schedule a meeting to go over proposed Modularization / Refactoring work in near future?
    • Discuss improving how DSpace handles Metadata. Several ideas mentioned recently:
      • Updating to current DCMI standards: DS-805
      • Creating a new "dspace" internal usage schema (for administrative, or non-DC metadata)? Formalize the "dc" schema to be strictly valid QDC/DC?
      • Metadata on all DSpace objects (not just Items)
      • Per discussion at OR11, DCAT is going to make recommendations on Metadata Schemas that DSpace should support.
    • Discuss forming a "Documentation Management Team"? Or reworking our procedures for managing/reviewing/approving Docs on the Wiki.
    • More discussion of Proposed RoadMap to 2.0
      • In meantime, feel free to forward thoughts on to Tim or everyone (via dspace-devel or dspace-commit).

Meeting Transcript

Meeting Archives

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

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