Developers Meeting on Weds, April 9, 2014

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

1. Quick notes:
   1. Tim will be unable to attend the meeting on April 16 (next week). Anyone want to lead the weekly meeting?
   2. 5.0 Release Team -  Reminder:If you are interested, please get in touch!
2. Status check on 4.2 and 3.3
   1. 3.3 tentative for April 25
   2. 4.2 - will do a review of open tickets marked for "4.2".  Hopefully release in early-to-mid May?
3. Next "Let's Talk about Features" meeting?  Should we have it next week, April 16 or April 23?
4. Meeting times: shall we have more than one weekly meeting time, to "share the pain" of an inconvenient meeting time? Currently committers checking in from Europe and Asia have the most inconvenient times. Here is tool for picking times where everyone will be awake. Tim and Hardy have suggested the possibility of having an alternating meeting time, one at 20UTC (same as now, we can call it the "late meeting"), one at 15 or 14UTC (we can call it the "early meeting"). This will make calendar management slightly more complex for everyone, but will hopefully make meeting attendance less of a chore for some of us.
5. Other topics to bring up for discussion?

Additional Ongoing Topics

1. 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 DC 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
     
     • "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

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=2014-04-09

Action Items

(Action items go here, if any)