Hi Mark & all, On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Mark Diggory<[email protected]> wrote: > ... > There are topics the community are very interested in participating on, and > I'd like to start seeing DSpace and Fedora community members sitting in > activities together. [...] > 1.) Maven and Spring DM activities (we are currently restructuring parts of > the DSpace 2.0 repo and having cross pollination of ideas would assist > here).
I think this would be a great place to cross-pollinate too...here's where the Fedora ant-to-maven work is being done/described: https://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCREPO/ANT+to+Maven2 Is there a similar page on the DSpace 2 repo restructuring? We haven't really started the SpringDM work yet, but here's the best URL I've got for it for now: https://fedora-commons.org/jira/browse/FCREPO-84 > 2.) Planning around Duraspace and OSL resources. > 3.) Starting to Share Duraspace resources like Confluence and JIRA To provide a little background on this: We're hoping to migrate as much of the Fedora Commons development infrastructure to be physically hosted at OSUOSL over the next couple months. And we've identified a few areas where we can probably use the same software (and in some cases the same instance) for the projects. > 4.) Community Driven Release Processes and decision making around release > feature-sets > 5.) OS Governance and Processes. > The DSpace community has a rather solid release management process and I > agree that DSpace community members should attend some of your activities to > advise on our process in greater detail (ie a round table). Definitely, consider yourselves invited...I'd like to understand more about what's worked/hasn't for you guys. One thing we're pretty clear on right now is that we'd like to have a community release manager for Fedora. At the same time, we're hoping the move to a standards-based module architecture over the next year will make it simpler for people to contribute and extend the core repository service in a loosely coupled way. > I think there need to be shared resources to advertise Fedora and DSpace > activities. I might recommend we repurpose the Google Calendar we have for > DSpace activities to be Duraspace activities and that any time we have > Developer meetings, training and conferences, they be published in it We also have a google calendar for FC-related events, but have mostly relied on the fedora-commons.org website, twitter, etc, for actually disseminating this info. I really like the idea of having a merged view of our calendars, but that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be managed as one, e.g.: http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/~cwilper/Calendar+Test > I will emphasize my own opinion that Fedora Commons trying to open up its > community and DSpace working make its existing volunteer community healthier > are really trying to solve the same problem and we can share > our experience here. > For both the DSpace and Fedora groups, the core > development team is already a sub-set of the community that preexists and > that to foster greater involvement in the codebase, you will need to reduce > the (often self imposed) barriers to participation by attributing merit to > your community members that deserve it and rewarding them with commitership > rights and delegating trust to them to assist in leading the direction of > the codebase. Agreed on both points...meritocracy works. On that note, I want to point out that we have a good sized list of community-submitted requests that have been opened and are ready to be worked on. For anyone reading this wondering how you can get involved with Fedora development, see: http://fedora-commons.org/go/fcrepo We're working on ways to make this more inviting, so 1) if you have suggestions, don't be shy, and 2) look for updates on the above page in the coming months. Thanks, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-developers
