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DSpace 8.1 / 7.6.3 releases

DSpace 8.1 and 7.6.3 have been released; congratulations and thank you to everyone who contributed; if any contributors are missing from the reference in the Release Notes, please let Tim know

DSpace 8.1 / 7.6.3 releases

The two planning groups are now starting their biweekly meetings
Wiki pages for both groups have been created
- Strategy Planning Group
- Technology Planning Group
Both groups will provide recommendations to Steering as to the merger
Updates on the groups activities will be forthcoming
Please feel free to ask if you have any questions

DSpace 9.0 release

Feature-PR creation date is coming up: February 21, 2025
This is a hard deadline; however, small extensions are possible if you let Tim know as soon as possible
- Question: What about accessibility fixes? Does the PR-creation deadline apply to those? Answer: It depends on the accessibility fix: if it's a large, feature-like PR, it will fall under the Feb 21, 2025; however, most accessibility fixes tend to be smaller in nature and fall under the bug fix category (deadline of May 2)
- Question: If anyone wanted to do translation work and don't miss any keys, would that be after the translation deadline? Answer: Most new translation keys are added during features; after the merge deadlines have passed and we are preparing for testation, that would be a good time to get any new translation keys in (early April, after March 28 Feature PR Merge Deadline)
  - Discussed how to improve the translation process workflow - Pierre Lasou will investigate and start the discussion with DCAT; Pierre mentioned the tool Weblate

Other topics

Adding CSV export to DSpace Admin Reports
- Pierre and Jeff Morin gave updates; PR is almost ready to go
- Question: initial recommendation was scripts & processes type export; is it working this way? Answer: Yes
Adding more e2e (end-to-end) tests to the DSpace User Interface
- Steering has discussed this and is eager to make this happen
- Benefits: will make PR reviews easier; will also lessen the role of the Testathon and help out DCAT; also helps with dependency upgrades
- This is not a hard lift - if anyone is interested in only doing 1 page, this could be done quickly; junior devs are encouraged to look at this; also an opportunity for Service Providers to give back code per the Registered Service Provider agreements
- Question: can we split this in different subtasks? So that it can be done by more than one contributor. Answer: GitHub just added a new feature: creating sub-issues; can create subissues now if anyone wants to look at a particular aspect; Tim will start with creating a couple of subissues that he wants to look at; feel free to reach out to Tim or create your own subissue if you want to claim a specific feature on one page
Discussion of ticket https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3070
- Suggestion from Giuseppe is to remove the link from the thumbnail
- Not a high priority item - we will continue to discuss this and think about it

Board Review

Remove context parameter from AuthorityValueService methods (#9842)
- Looks reasonable; but need to check if this could conflict with merger with DSpace-CRIS
- Giuseppe assigned by Tim, he will review
- Also need to look into whether we need the LogHelper.getHeader method (Line 223) - Mark H. Wood will investigate
- Moved to "Under Review"
Provide new CoverPage implementation (#9844)
- Looks like it's been moving along
- Will bring to future discussion if necessary; there are some outstanding questions on the template engine (Thymeleaf)
- If you have thoughts on this, add them to the comments in the PR