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Agenda

• Discussion Topics - If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it. 
  1.   8 8.0 Final Release is out the door! Congratulations to everyone
     
     1. Brief retrospective.  Any feedback / thoughts / brainstorms to keep in mind to help future releases (9.0 and beyond)?
  2. DSpace 7.6.2 release
     1. Release as soon as (reasonably) possible.
     2. 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
  3. DSpace 9.0 release (tentative April 2025)
     1. 9.0 Board is created: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/31/
     2. Early ideas/brainstorms captured at at DSpace Release 9.0 Status
  4. Ongoing Discussion: High CPU with DSpace 7 SSR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3110
  5. (Other topics?)
• 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

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• Tim Donohue 
• Holger Lenz 

• Art Lowel (Atmire) 

• Andrea Bollini (4Science)

• 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 89.0 board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/2731
• DSpace 8.x and 7.6.x board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/29

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Notes

Discussed the release of DSpace 8.0

• DSpace 8.0 was released on Monday, June 24, 2024. Tim Donohue thanked all committers for their work and their contributions towards version 8.0.
• Reflected on lessons learned from work on version 8.0 and what can be improved to help future releases
  • Tim Donohue shared:
    • realizing major upgrades earlier in the development cycle; in the development of version 8, the need to upgrade Springboot and Angular was seen somewhat late in the development cycle, which lead to delays
    • improving and streamlining the code review process, which has also lead to delays; this is partly due to a small pool of reviewers

Discussed the release of 7.6.2

• Goal: Dspace version 7.6.2 will be released within the next two weeks
• Most fixes for 7.6.2 were identified through work on DSpace version 8
• Accessibility issues contain a large part of what needs to be done on 7.6.2
• Two PRs were created to backport /api/security/csrf REST endpoint: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9599 and https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/3063; Kim Shepherd volunteered to work on them

Discussed ideas for DSpace version 9

• Tim Donohue has created a board for version 9 on GitHub: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/31/; this board serves as a point to collect ideas and brainstorm features and improvements for version 9
• Any larger ideas and brainstorming for version 9 can go on the DSpace Release 9.0 Status page on the wiki
  • Anyone is welcome and encouraged to add ideas for version 9 development to this page
  • Alternative, anyone is welcome to message Tim Donohue with ideas for version 9 development

Continued the ongoing discussion around High CPU usage with DSpace 7 SSR (see https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3110)

• Anyone is welcome to add ideas on how to improve performance issues in the "Brainstorms" section on https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3110
• Discussed ideas of how do improve performance
  • Fixes should revolve around identifying the underlying problem, not just patching a workaround solution
  • Pascal Becker shared suggestions on how to improve performance by sending fewer larger requests bundled together instead of many small requests 
    • Some examples include the submission form requesting each section one by one, requesting all configs one by one, requesting all permissions one by one
    • Tim will copy details into DSpace Release 9.0 Status page
  • Discussed performance issues around REST API calls (private vs. public).  Ideally, SSR requests (via Node) should be sent via a private URL (sometimes localhost) to the REST API, instead of using the public URL (which is slower as it needs to go through DNS, etc.)
• Art mentioned that we also have an outdated Submission library in the Angular UI.  We need to replace it or create our own submission forms.  See also https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/2216

No meeting will be held on July 4, 2024, due to the public holiday in the US

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