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• Discussion Topics - If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it. 
  1. DSpace 9.0 is released!!   Thank you to everyone who helped in that release.  Latest count is 89 individuals helped with 9.0! 
  2. Open Repositories 2025
     
     1. OR2025 DSpace Developer Meet-Up and Q&A (Workshop) - Sign up if you'd like to share your work or suggest a topic for discussion!
     2. DSpace at OR2025 - Wiki page of known DSpace-related talks to be presented at OR2025
  3. DSpace & DSpace-CRIS potential merger discussions
     1. DSpace and DSpace-CRIS Planning Groups - wiki pages to follow along with ongoing discussions.
     2. DSpace-CRIS and DSpace Differences  - List of known feature/architectural differences between DSpace 8 and latest version of DSpace-CRIS
  4. DSpace 8.2 and 7.6.4 maintenance releases
     1. Maintenance Board (9.x, 8.x, 7.6.x)
     2. Backporting recent bug fixes.
        1. Frontend fixes flagged with "port to dspace-7_x" and "port to dspace-8_x"
        2. Backend fixes flagged with "port to dspace-7_x" and "port to dspace-8_x"
     3. Release just after Open Repositories?  Tentative Date: Thursday, June 26?
  5. DSpace 10.0 (Very Early Days)
     1. 10.0 Board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/32
     2. Obviously priorities for 10.0 Priorities: DSpace Release 10.0 depends Status (Depends heavily on a final decision around a potential merger with DSpace-CRIS.  In meantime, 10.0 has general priorities similar to DSpace Release 9.0 Status)
  6. Other topics
     
     1. 1. (Please add any here that you'd like to discuss)
• Board Review:
  • 10.0 Project Board - Review PRs collaboratively or Assign new PRs to volunteers to code review and/or test.
  • Backlog Board - Are there any tickets here stuck in the "Triage" column?  We'd like to keep this column as small as possible.
  • Maintenance Board (9.x, 8.x, 7.6.x) - Known bugs can be found here, along with any backported bug fixes.
• Upcoming Topics: (Let us know if there are topics you want to discuss in future weeks)
  
  • Ongoing Discussions (temporarily put on hold until there are updates):
    1. High CPU with DSpace 7 SSR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3110  (This should be alleviated through several SSR related performance improvements coming in 7.6.3 and 8.1)
    2. Simplifying the Installation Process: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3184
  • Discussion: how to keep message catalogues in sync? https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3334

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Notes

• Congratulations to everyone on 9.0! Please review the Release Notes to make sure you are properly acknowledged if you contributed to this release.
• Open Repositories 2025
  • Reminder to add topics to the agenda if you are attending the DSpace Developer Meet-Up workshop: OR2025 DSpace Developer Meet-Up and Q&A
  • Hope to see you in Chicago!
• DSpace & DSpace-CRIS potential merger discussions
  • Technical Planning group is still doing a detailed review of DSpace-CRIS and DSpace Differences.  Should be done in our next meeting, and we'll start to focus on which feature require more discussion or bring up concerns regarding the potential merger.
• DSpace 8.2 and 7.6.4 maintenance releases
  • Please backport any PRs to 7.x or 8.x which are flagged with at "port to" label.  We'd like to get these into the maintenance releases
    • Frontend fixes flagged with "port to dspace-7_x" and "port to dspace-8_x"
    • Backend fixes flagged with "port to dspace-7_x" and "port to dspace-8_x"
  • Tentative release date is after Open Repositories.  Maybe on Thursday, June 26?
  • Question: Do we have any idea when 8.3 would come out after 8.2 is complete?
    • We don't schedule maintenance releases. They come out as necessary.  It's difficult to say when 8.3 will be released, as it may depend on when major bugs are needing to be fixed.
    • That said, Committers can help to make a release happen earlier if they are willing to take the lead on the release.
    • Every release requires a leader/steward for that release.  Tim often is that steward, but this can mean that maintenance releases are less frequent simply because he attention is split.  If another Committer wants to do a maintenance release, then it can come out earlier
• DSpace 10.0 
  • General priorities now listed at DSpace Release 10.0 Status. These may change once a decision is made on DSpace-CRIS potential merger.
• Open Discussion
  • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/1834 - Collection/Community browse options are always the same, even for Entities. This ticket is becoming annoying for sites that use Entities, as the browse options don't make sense for some entities (like Person)
    • Giuseppe notes this issue is fixed in DSpace-CRIS.  It lets you change the browse options (in Discovery) based on the Collection or the Entity Type.  So, if the DSpace-CRIS merger goes forward, this ticket will be "fixed".  If it doesn't go forward, we'd likely want to port this from DSpace-CRIS
  • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/4019 - 4Science is planning to update this Nx modularization PR, so that we can discuss it's inclusion for DSpace 10.0.   
    • Once this is updated, Giuseppe or 4Science can bring this to a future meeting so that we can get a reminder of the work and start testing it.
  • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/1645 - PR to add new Entities based on COAR Resource Types.  This has been forgotten. Any chance of re-discussing it and making a decision
    • Pierre will talk in a future meeting about how this PR is used at his institution & re-introduce this discussion to everyone.  That way we can make a decision on it on how to move it forward.
  • General reminder: If something you worked on or cared about has been lost or forgotten, please do draw our attention to it.  We have a massive community and good ideas sometimes get lost or temporarily set aside.  If you bring them back up during a time where things are less rushed, we'd be glad to revisit them.

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