Developers Meeting on Weds, July 20, 2011

Agenda

First 20+ minutes: JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-847
- Search for all Unresolved Issues (since DS-847)

Discussion Topics:
- DS-528 (RSS feeds to support richer features, such as iTunes Podcast or Media RSS) – Apple is in touch with us about getting this feature added to DSpace to support iTunesU.
  - Shall we look at including this in 1.8.0?
- Any Updates or Topics to discuss for DSpace 1.8.0 Release?
  - Reminder: Feature Freeze is August 19
  - DCAT seems to have interest in seeing an "Easy Upgrade Scripts" (DS-456) for DSpace 1.8: DCAT Feature review of DS-456 Create easy upgrade scripts
- Recent thread on extending Unit Testing Framework across more modules
  - See this 'dspace-devel' thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06553.html

Other Topics for Discussion?

General Reminders

GSoC General Reminders:
- GSoC's Weekly Update meeting immediately after this meeting (21:00 UTC)
- New GSoC Public Mailing List this year (shared with Fedora & DuraCloud):
- Important Dates (full timeline)
  - May 24: GSoC Begins
  - August 22: GSoC Ends

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?
  - Restructure Trunk Projects
  - Refactoring the DSpace Domain Model
  - Others listed under Development Proposals
- 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 Notes

JIRA Review (DS-847 to DS-850}, revisit DS-528 (Media RSS feeds), DS-961 (Oracle update script), DS-456 (Upgrade scripts)

Meeting Transcript

Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2011-07-20