Developers Meeting on Weds, March 14, 2012

Agenda

Regular Items

• JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-958
  • Search for all Unresolved Issues (since DS-958)

General Reminders

• Feel free to keep adding ideas to DSpace GSoC Ideas Page. We should hear on Friday if we are accepted to GSoC'12

Discussion Topics

1. GitHub Migration
   • Do we just leave the main DSpace/DSpace GitHub repo as-is? The only way to properly re-map all SVN Users -> GitHub Users would be to recreate it.
   • Volunteers to help with Migration?
2. Revisiting Virtual Summit
   • Very successful meeting, with a nice list of "Actionable Takeaways"
   • Any thoughts on how many times would we like to hold this Summit per year? Once (Jan/Feb)? Twice (Jan and May/June)? Three times (Jan, May & Sept)?
   • Any other feedback to mention?
3. 3.0 Release
   • We still need a "team leader" for our Release Team.
     • Current Release Team (all volunteered in Fall): Hardy P, Sands F, Kim S, Robin T
   • Any other potential features folks want to add?
4. Other topics?

Additional Ongoing Topics

1. Brainstorming Features/Changes for 3.0. Can we work towards development teams around any of these projects?
   • Larger DSpace projects which seem to have a lot of recent support:
     • Moving towards a Common "Business Logic" / Business Services API. (I.e. avoiding duplication of business logic in all UIs)
     • Metadata For All (i.e. metadata on all objects), SubTopic: Getting us up-to-date how we use Dublin Core / DCMI. (Support from DCAT)
   • Other DSpace projects receiving mention recently
     • Migrate Search and Browse to DSpace Discovery
     • "Change which UIs come out-of-the-box" (and which are optionally installed later)
     • Move configurations to DB or similar (so they can be managed/edited from Admin UI)
     • Context Guided Ingest (or Item Type based submissions)
     • Other Development Proposals

Individual Status Updates

If you have status items to report, please enter them below at least 1 hour before the meeting starts.

• Peter Dietz
  • Have pushed the git source code for Ohio State University's DSpace Repository (The Knowledge Bank) to GitHub. See the OSU Knowledge Bank fork of DSpace.
  • Have documented some of our XMLUI themes in use at Ohio State. Doc has lots of screenshots and links to our live site, and to the code.
  • Have been working on using Elastic Search for DSpace UsageEvents. Am now starting to build reports (Top 10 Downloads to Collection) from Elastic Search data.

Meeting Notes

JIRA Review, Detailed discussion of GitHub migration

Meeting Transcript

• Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2012-03-14

Action Items

Action items coming out of this meeting go here, if any.

• TODO - Update the ReleaseCoordinating page to better outline Release Processes
  • Add "Update this document with lessons learned" as the final task of any release.