Developers Meeting on Weds, Nov 4, 2015

REMINDER for USA/Canada: As daylight savings time has ended, this meeting is now one hour EARLIER. So, 15:00 UTC is now 10:00am EST (instead of 11:00am EDT). If you are unsure of the date/time in your area, please check this date/time link: 15:00 UTC

REMINDER FOR Europe: As daylight savings time has ended, this meeting is now one hour EARLIER. So, 15:00 UTC is now 16:00 CET.

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.
DSpace Developers Meeting: 15:00 UTC in #duraspace IRC

Agenda

Discussion Topics

DSpace 5.4 status/updates (Tentative release of Thurs, Nov 5)
1. PRs scheduled for 5.4: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3A5.4
2. Candidate tickets at: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS/fixforversion/12942/
DSpace 6.0 Status
1. Possibly deprecating Elasticsearch Statistics module in 6.0?
  1. Suggested by Peter Dietz, as they no longer plan to use/support it.
  2. This also is an item on the RoadMap (to either deprecate or extract it into an externally installed module)
2. PRs scheduled for 6.0: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3A6.0
3. Release Team members still needed!
DSpace UI Prototype Challenge deadline now extended to Friday, Dec 4
Other topics?

Meeting Notes

Meeting Transcript

Full IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2015-11-04

Action Items

(Action items go here, if any)