Committers Call 2011-07-11

Participants

Matt Zumwalt (moderator)
Bess Sadler
Edwin Shin (notetaker)
Joe Gilbert
Justin Coyne
Adam Wead
Molly Pickral
Rick Johnson
Bill Parod
Julie Meloni

Agenda

Hydra Community call vs. Hydra Committers Call - Matt
Rails3 - Matt
Plugin Architecture(s)
hydra-head vs Hydra::Head vs. HydraHead vs. hydra_head ... - Matt
JavaScriptless Form Handling - Eddie

Notes

Hydra Community vs. Committers Call

Re-focus on the work that is being done this week on the core plugins (e.g. OM, solrizer, ActiveFedora, hydra_head, etc.). For other discussions, encourage moving that to the hydra-tech mailing list. However, still allow for 5 mins of Community Announcements.

Rails3

Upgrade Rails2 plugin code to be Rails3-compliant
Pre-release (alpha?) planned for next week.

Outstanding:

  • Merging in the UI work (Jessie, Naomi, Joe)
  • Documentation
  • Switching to single core Solr (hydra-jetty) (Bess)
    • Use of environment over RAILS_ENV
          if defined?(Rails.env)
            @config_env = Rails.env
          elsif defined?(ENV['environment'])
            @config_env = ENV['environment']
          else
            @config_env = 'development'
            logger.warn("No environment setting found: Using the default development environment.")
          end
      

Naming of Hydra Head

hydra-head vs Hydra::Head vs. HydraHead vs. hydra_head
ACTION: Matt will query the hydra-tech list

JavaScriptless Form Handling

Best practices for form handling (e.g. adding multiple authors)
See attachment: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/HYDRA-543

Plugin Architecture(s)

Different projects are developing different bits of functionality for which there is the desire to enable sharing, re-use and collaboration (e.g. UI widgets, content-type handling, themes etc. etc.), but what exactly are we aiming for, how far do we want to go?

Next Week

If you have a topic for next week's committers' call, make sure it's reflected in some way in the weekly sprint in Jira.

Next week's notetaker: Bess