Meeting Schedule and Attendance

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

DSpace Committer meetings take place on the following schedule:

See the world clock to determine the meeting time where you live.

Jira Cleanup Sessions

When the agenda for a meeting allows for it, occasionally a DSpace Committers meeting will begin with a quick review and cleanup of recent issues logged in DSpace JIRA. We use the following process for a quick review of JIRA issues.

The session (usually 15-30 minutes) is led by two developers:

Each new issue will be introduced by the 'feeder' once the previous issue has been concluded. A new issue will be introduced in this general format:

http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-245 - Checksum Checker reports on bitstreams which do not have "in_archive" status]

Each participant will then have approximately one minute to read that page, and decide how they think the issue should be dealt with. There are three options for voting:

If you require more time to read and understand the issue, please say 'more time'. If several people say this, the time allocated to the issue can be extended at the discretion of the 'completer'.

Please vote with a '0' rather than staying silent if you have no opinion on an issue. That way the completer knows that, rather than waiting for a vote.

Last Issue Reviewed

Voting Procedures

Occasionally during meetings, larger decisions need to be made or small disagreements will occur. In these cases, the DSpace Committers will attempt to come to a consensus by bringing the topic to a vote. Currently, the following voting procedures are in place, as decided unanimously by the DSpace Committers in the Spring of 2009.

The DSpace Committers follow the Apache Voting Process.

Votes can be called either during meetings or via email. There are three main votes that can be made:

In a general sense, there are three types of votes that may take place:

  1. Votes on code modifications - proposals require at least three positive (+1) votes, and no negative votes (-1) to pass
  2. Votes on a new release - proposals require a majority are in favor (and at least three +1 votes have been cast)
  3. Votes on procedural/policy changes - proposals require more positive (+1) than negative (-1) votes

Further details of some of the intricacies of these voting procedures can be found in the Apache Voting Process.

Meeting Archives

All DSpace Committer meetings and the discussions pertaining within are archived. Below is an archive of the discussions which took place during each meeting.

Old Archives