Minutes of the meeting on IRC, August 19th 2009

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

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

• fixes for categories search (​http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/ticket/139)
• fixes for ticket ​http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/ticket/141
• fix for ticket ​http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/ticket/140
• fix for ticket ​http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/ticket/134
• fix for the lucene indexing on application startup
• an enhancement to keywords search (made case insensitive and abstracts over accented characters)

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 at ​http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/attachment/wiki/MultilingualMetadata/geonetwork-multilingual-editing.2.swf;
• Heikki and Francois will work on a proposal for INSPIRE support;
• GeoEditorViewer (see screencast at ​http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/attachment/wiki/GeoEditorViewer/geoeditor.swf) 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 (​http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/HiddenElements) 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.