Developers Meeting on Weds, September 7, 2011

Agenda

Discussion: Final Preparation/Updates for 1.8.0 RC1 & Testathon (next week)
- DSpace Release 1.8.0 Notes
- 1.8.0 RC1 will be released TOMORROW (THURS, SEPT 8)
- Some Outstanding Issues:
  - DS-959 : XMLUI login failure when using Tomcat 7.0.16
  - DS-990 : Change 'ant update' to default to "overwrite=true" mode

Updating 1.8.0 Documentation
- Updating Install / Upgrade instructions
- Updating Configuration section (especially after all the configs were moved to config/modules)
Reviewing JIRA tickets (especially bug fixes) which are marked for 1.8.0 & have attachments (patches)

Time Permitting, we can always do a JIRA Catch-Up – starting with issue DS-886
- Search for all Unresolved Issues (since DS-886)

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 Transcript

Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2011-09-07