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Developers Meeting on Weds, July 24, 2013
Agenda
Regular Items
- "JIRA Backlog Hour" : Every Weds at 19:00UTC in #dspace IRC we will be working together to tackle our JIRA Backlog of "Received" tickets. This regular meeting will continue until we've been able to catch up on our backlog.
Discussion Topics
- Pull Request Reviews (first 10 minutes or so) - Starting with #196
- DSpace 3.2 release
- DSpace 4.0 planning
- Need to start thinking about our possible release timeline, and whether there's anything we want to change from the 3.0 release timeline.
- 3.0 Deadlines were:
- Aug 24, 2012 (Friday) - Code Submission Deadline
- Sept 14, 2012 (Friday) - Feature Freeze
- Oct 8, 2012 (Monday) - RC1 released (Initial Testathon began Oct 10, Wednesday)
- 3.0 Deadlines were:
- Need to start thinking about our possible release timeline, and whether there's anything we want to change from the 3.0 release timeline.
- Developer's feedback on requested by Kostas (could make it into 4.0)
- Travis CI + GitHub : Should we all be using this?
- Travis CI allows each developer to have their own Continuous Integration on their own GitHub Repo
- Also integrates with GitHub and will provide a warning if your Pull Request to DSpace causes build failures in Travis CI
- All it requires is a ".travis.yml" file in our GitHub Repo
- http://about.travis-ci.org/docs/user/getting-started/
- Other topics for discussion?
Additional Ongoing Topics
- Brainstorming Features/Changes for future. 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)
- Related: Proposal to Update QDC Registry and Add DCTERMS Registry Latest page from DCAT with the summary & goals
- AuthN & AuthZ issues, including: DS-1566 and developer meeting on May 2, 2012
- 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)
- Other Development Proposals
- Larger DSpace projects which seem to have a lot of recent support:
Individual Status Updates
If you have status items to report, please enter them below at least 1 hour before the meeting starts.
Meeting Notes
Meeting Transcript
- Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2013-07-24
Action Items
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