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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Dear DSpace community member:<BR>
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In preparation for the release of DSpace version 1.6, we are going to hold an online event to evaluate the outstanding issues in our JIRA issue tracking system:<BR>
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- <a href="http://jira.dspace.org/">http://jira.dspace.org/</a><BR>
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In JIRA there are some items that are out of date or out of scope. We want to ensure that only relevant and currently outstanding bugs, issues and patches are included in JIRA. The community is going to hold a ‘minute-madness’ session where we look at each JIRA issue for no more than 1 minute, to decide whether it should be kept or discarded. If it is going to be kept, then we will look for volunteers to work with that issue to bring it to completion. New contributors to the DSpace platform are very welcome, and this is a good way to get involved!<BR>
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The meeting will be held online in our IRC channel. For details, and instructions on how to access this from a web browser, see:<BR>
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- <a href="http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpaceResources#IRC_channel">http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpaceResources#IRC_channel</a><BR>
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<B>The meeting will be held at 6pm GMT (2PM EDT / 11AM PDT / 6AM 26th August NZST) on Tuesday 25th August 2009.<BR>
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All users of DSpace are invited, encouraged and welcome to attend.<BR>
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In preparation – if you have any outstanding issues, bug reports, or patches that are not yet in JIRA, please enter them into JIRA in the couple of days. If you have any issues that are currently marked as ‘open’ in JIRA and which are still relevant, please place a comment in JIRA saying this as it will help us in the meeting. Even if you are not the submitter of issues in JIRA, we would still encourage you to create an account and vote for issues that are important to you. This will help us to channel our resources in the most effective way.<BR>
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If you have any questions about this, please direct them to myself or to one of the DSpace email lists.<BR>
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Your input to this process and meeting is greatly appreciated.<BR>
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Stuart Lewis<BR>
IT Innovations Analyst and Developer<BR>
Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library<BR>
Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand<BR>
Ph: 64 9 373-7599 x81928<BR>
<U><a href="http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/">http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/</a></U><BR>
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