Developers Meeting on Weds, July 15, 2015

  • JIRA Backlog Hour: 16:00 UTC in #dspace IRC, i.e. one hour AFTER the meeting. During that hour, we will be working together to tackle our JIRA Backlog of "Received" tickets.
    • Unfortunately, Tim has a conflict with Backlog Hour, but will be at the meeting.
  • DSpace Developers Meeting: 15:00 UTC in #duraspace IRC

Agenda

Discussion Topics

  1. DSpace 5.3 Bug Fixes / Outstanding PRs  Getting very close to a 5.3 release. 
      1. PR#981 is ready to merge. Has +4 votes.  (Merged)
      1. PR#982 has one +1 and one "kinda" +1
      1. PR#975 is ready to merge. Has +2 votes.  (Merged)
  2. DSpace 6.0 Status
    1. @mire will be presenting to us on "Service API + Hibernate" work on Thurs, July 23 at 15:00 UTC.
      1. See announcement on dspace-devel: http://dspace.2283337.n4.nabble.com/Special-Topic-Meeting-DSpace-quot-Services-API-quot-project-July-23-15-00-UTC-td4678814.html
    2. Volunteers for some refactoring tasks?

    3. Release Team members still needed!
  3. RoadMap work (no new updates this week)
    1. Design - Single UI Project has some rough timelines on likely plans.
      1. Rough draft of Prototyping a Future UI which describes what the prototyping process may look like (feedback welcome!)
    2. A "UI Working Group" will be formed by end of July
      1. In next few weeks, we'll announce an open meeting (anyone can attend) to discuss the upcoming UI Prototyping and get volunteers for Working Group.
      2. Working Group will help us to "oversee" the prototyping process and the final decision making process.
      3. Announcements will go to DSpace lists. We'll also be directly emailing folks who expressed interest at OR15 or via email.
  4. Other topics?

Meeting Notes

Meeting Transcript

Action Items

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