Minutes of the meeting on IRC, August 19th 2009

Participants: Emmanuel Belo, Francois Xavier Prunayre, Heikki Doeleman, Jeroen Ticheler, Jesse Eichar, Jose Garcia, Mathieu Coudert  

A bugfix release !GeoNetwork 2.4.1 will be made by Jeroen shortly. It contains :

 * fix for [http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/ticket/139 categories search]
 * fix for [http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/ticket/141 Error compiling XSL stylesheet for RSS services]
 * fix for [http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/ticket/140 Typo in codelists]
 * fix for [http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/ticket/134 thesaurus / keyword autocompleter]
 * fix for the lucene indexing on application startup
 * ~~an enhancement to keywords search (made case insensitive and abstracts over accented characters)~~ Moved to release 2.5

Discussion of contents of next release 2.5 :

 * !MultiLingual metadata editing: lacks PSC approval for now. Jeroen hopes to see some changes to the presentation in the editor; a screencast by Francois explaining it is available [http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/attachment/wiki/MultilingualMetadata/geonetwork-multilingual-editing.2.swf here];
 * proposals for changes from [http://www.nationaalgeoregister.nl NGR] will be put up on the wiki and for vote on the mailing list; 
 * Heikki and Francois will work on a proposal for INSPIRE support;
 * !GeoEditorViewer (see screencast [http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/attachment/wiki/GeoEditorViewer/geoeditor.swf here]) will be put up for vote on the mailing list;
 * replace !InterMap with !OpenLayers and !GeoExt; camptocamp is currently working on adding CSW protocol support in !OpenLayers and !GeoExt and this will really help building search interface.
 * swisstopo Hidden Elements (see [http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/HiddenElements here]) can be integrated to trunk by Jose
 * MAYBE : use of Maven for the builds. Needs some infrastructure (like a repository). Mathieu and Jeroen will work on that next week; work to proceed in a sandbox branch.


Discussion of modularized architecture :

 * participants are generally in favor of the idea
 * ebRIM and GAAP will be the first artifacts of this and to be included in GN 2.5
 * Heikki and Jose will provide documentation on the proposal and describe the workings of GAAP

A next IRC meeting to continue discussing 2.5 is scheduled for August 31st, 10:00.