Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
Developers Meeting on Thurs, May 30, 2024
Time/Location
from 14:00-15:00 UTC
Location: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/my/dspace?pwd=RTk4QUhISnhPRi9YenVrTFJKbDllQT09 (Meeting ID: 502 527 3040). Passcode: dspace
- More connection options available at DSpace Meeting Room
8.0 Release Schedule
- New Feature Development Deadlines
- Feature PR Creation Deadline: Friday, Jan 19, 2024
- Feature PR Review/Test Deadline: Friday, Feb 9
- Feature PR Merge Deadline (Feature Freeze): Friday, Feb 23
- Major dependency upgrades: March 3 - March 29
- Early Documentation & bug fixes: April 1-5
- 8.0 Release Candidate: Week of April 1-5
- 8.0 Testathon: April 8-19 (two weeks)
- Bug Fix Deadlines
- NOTE: Because of the number of issues found in Testathon, the 8.0 release is delayed until "high priority" tickets are solved.
- Bug Fix PR Creation Deadline: Friday,
May 3May 31 - Bug Fix PR Merge Deadline: Friday,
May 10June 7
- Final Documentation & Release Week:
May 13-17June 10-14 - 8.0 Release Announced: Monday,
May 20, 2024June 17
Agenda
- Discussion Topics - If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it.
- 8.0 Final Release
- "High Priority" tickets/PRs remaining: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/27/views/1?filterQuery=label%3A%22high+priority%22
- Bugs reported via Testathon:
- Art Lowel (Atmire) mentioned we have merger issue between the "dspace-7_x" and "main" branches (at least in dspace-angular) because these branch
- See https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/compare/main...dspace-7_x and https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/compare/main...dspace-7_x
- Possible solution is:
git merge -s ours dspace-7_x
into "main". This will reset their common ancestor
- OR2024
- Who will be around next week? (Thurs, June 6) Do we cancel the meeting?
- Developer Meet-Up & Q&A Workshop: Topics for discussion at OR2024 DSpace Developer Meet-Up and Q&A
- Ongoing Discussion: High CPU with DSpace 7 SSR: https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-tech/c/t4H3jJPq0Ck
- Please suggest improvements/changes on our Performance Tuning DSpace docs (or send to Tim privately)
- Add configuration to disable inlined CSS in SSR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2067
- Possibly exclude some components from SSR? E.g. DSpace-CRIS excludes the Search component from SSR as these are not necessary for SEO. (Need to verify this has no negative impacts on accessibility or similar.)
- Is there a way to use Apache "mod_cache" to cache SSR generated pages?
- May have a negative impact on download/view statistics (in Solr Statistics) as hits to the Apache cache would not generate view events. We'd need a different way to send these view events to REST API.
- DSpace 7.x Maintenance
- PRs created to backport
/api/security/csrf
REST endpoint: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9599 and https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/3063
- PRs created to backport
- (Other topics?)
- 8.0 Final Release
- Board Review & assignments:
- Backlog Board - Are there any tickets here stuck in the "Triage" column? We'd like to keep this column as small as possible.
- 8.0 Project Board - Assign new PRs to volunteers to code review and/or test.
- 7.6.x Project Board - Assign new PRs to volunteers to code review and/or test.
- Upcoming Topics: (Let us know if there are topics you want to discuss in future weeks)
- None at this time
Attendees
- Tim Donohue
- Holger Lenz
- Giuseppe Digilio (4Science)
- Paulo Graça
- Mark H. Wood
- Grazia Quercia (4Science)
- Corrado Lombardi (4Science)
- Julian Timal (eScire)
- Martin Walk
- Melissa Anez
- Oliver Goldschmidt
- Hrafn Malmquist
- Pascal-Nicolas Becker
- Pierre Lasou
- Kim Shepherd
Current Work
Project Boards
- DSpace 8.0 board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/27
- DSpace 7.6.x board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/29
To quickly find PRs assigned to you for review, visit https://github.com/pulls/review-requested (This is also available in the GitHub header under "Pull Requests → Review Requests")
Goals for 8.0
This were decided by Steering in their meeting on June 28, 2023.
- Move forward major features which missed 7.x.
- COAR Notify support (4Science & Harvard): https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8120
- Development proposal page: Implementation of the COAR Notify protocol in DSpace 8
- OpenAIRE integration with notification broker/claim service (4Science)
- Porting "REST-Based Quality Control Reports" from old REST API to new one. (U of Laval, Canada)
- Duplicate Detection in Submission ported from DSpace-CRIS (The Library Code)
- COAR Notify support (4Science & Harvard): https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8120
- Include new features which empower users in the admin UI. Make things easier for Admins.
- Accepting community contributions of any 6.x features which missed 7.x
- Improve documentation, training to allow for greater community contributions. (Ease setup/install/customization, etc.)
- Per DSpace 7 WG meeting on June 29, 2023, this may include dependency upgrades/maintenance (Angular, Spring, Solr, Tomcat, etc). May also include necessary code updates/refactors to ease in ongoing maintenance.
- Release Goal: June 17, 2024
- In parallel to 8.0, proof of concepts / planning regarding modularization:
- Angular : library-based architecture proposal (4Science)
- DSpace Preservation-enabled Storage via OCFL (Lyrasis, post-8.0)
Goals for 7.6.2
Deadline is TBD for 7.6.2
- Bug/security fixes only. Release will occur when sufficient fixes have been made to warrant a release.
- New "themeable components" (for dspace-angular) are allowed in bug fix releases, provided that they don't significantly modify component behavior or similar.
- Bug fixes should have one Pull Request
- A PR against either the "dspace-7_x" maintenance branch OR the "main" branch.
- We will automatically generate a PR against the other branch using the "port to [branch]" labels & the "Port merged Pull Request" GitHub Action
- (In the case of complex bug fixes, it is possible this automatic port action will fail. In that situation a manual port PR may need to be created.)
Try "Pull Request Trading" for a quicker review
Do you have a PR stuck in "under review" that you really want to see move forward? Or maybe it's someone else's PR but you want to get it more attention?
See Trading reviews on Pull Requests for how to get immediate attention to that PR!
Notes
Discussed the status and progress of tickets on GitHub
- Tickets labeled high priority must be resolved before the 8.0 release
- Other tickets not labeled high priority can be integrated into 8.0 if time and workload allows
Discussed the updated Release Schedule
- PR Creation Deadline has been pushed to May 31
- PR Merge Deadline has been pushed to June 7
- Final Documentation & Release Week has been pushed to June 10-14
- 8.0 Release Announcement has been pushed to June 17
Discussed the merger issue between the the "dspace-7_x" and "main"
- The issue creates two different branches which create merge conflicts
- Discussed a possible solution in which dspace-7_x commits are merged back into main
- Preference to merge at the tag level instead of the branch level (7.6.1)
- Will keep this on the agenda and continue discussion at a later time
- Tim Donohue will create a test branch to test how to resolve the merger conflict
Due to OR, next week's dev meeting will be canceled
- Next dev meeting will be held on Jun 13, 2024
Discussed details pertaining to the developers Q+A at OR
- Art Lowel (Atmire), Andrea Bollini (4Science), and Pascal-Nicolas Becker will present and help coordinate the workshop in cooperation with Michele Mennielli
- Tim Donohue and Holger Lenz will attend virtually – anyone else who cannot attend in person is welcome to join the virtual tie in via Zoom: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/my/dspace?pwd=RTk4QUhISnhPRi9YenVrTFJKbDllQT09
- Holger Lenz will add any DSpace related OR presentations to DSpace at OR2024
Briefly mentioned updates regarding the server side rendering issues
Briefly discussed DSpace 7.x Maintenance