Developers Meeting on Weds, July 20, 2016

JIRA Backlog Hour: 19:00 UTC in #dspace IRC, i.e. one hour BEFORE the meeting. During that hour, we will be working together to tackle our JIRA Backlog of "Received" tickets.
DSpace Developers Meeting: 20:00 UTC in #duraspace IRC

Agenda

Ongoing Reminders

New UI Initiatiave (previously called DSpace UI Prototype Challenge).
- Next phase won't begin until after 6.0 is released
- Team who built the proof-of-concept UI have begun a (rough) list of brainstorming/planning tickets for the next phase
- A User Interface / User Experience Interest Group is in the process of being established (via DCAT). Once established, a call for more members will be made on all lists
- Possible Interest Group(s) for REST API and one for Angular 2 UI design forthcoming.

Discussion Topics

DSpace 6.0 Status. List is getting shorter, but we could really use more help closing out these final tickets!! Volunteers welcome!
1. Path to 6.0: Need to move rapidly towards an RC3 / Final!
2. "Must Have" tickets that need resolution before 6.0 Final (These are all unresolved tickets flagged "Fix for 6.0" with a priority of "Major" or above.)
3. Other "quick win" PRs, which are "nice to haves": https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3A%22quick+win%22+milestone%3A6.0
Other 6.0 "known issues" (Any tickets in these lists that are not listed above may be rescheduled for 6.1 or later, if no volunteers are found)
1. Other unresolved issues flagged from "testathon":https://jira.duraspace.org/issues/?jql=resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20testathon
2. All the PRs flagged for 6.0 (some may need rescheduling): https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3A6.0
Other topics?
1. Is anyone interested in trying out this new tool? Dependency CI (free for open source projects)

(Action items go here, if any)