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Notes

Updates

There will be no official dev meeting next week (Oct. 10). The next meeting will take place on Oct. 17. The Zoom room will still be open next week for anyone who would like to join and discuss things informally

9.0 Release Development Priorities

Still no formal decision/direction from Leadership
Looks likely that the main points in the "Under Discussion for 9.0" section on the DSpace Release 9.0 Status page will be priorities for 9.0 development
Tentative release date of 9.0 is still April 2025
Tim Donohue will create a rough development road map with dates; first draft planned to be available for the Oct. 17 dev meeting

Ongoing Discussion

Incentivizing Code Reviews and PR Testing: No updates
High CPU with DSpace 7 SSR:
- Krzysztof noticed circular requests, which could account for increased CPU load (see discussion section in the ticket)
- Additionally, the question was raised whether the number of REST requests invoked seem unnecessarily high
- Krzysztof will investigate further and report back to the dev group
Using both public/private REST API URLs for better performance:
- New PR from 4Science (#3358): 2 URLs for REST API - normal public one (client side) & ssrBaseURL (backend)
- Ready for testing and feedback; developers are welcome to add comments or reach out to Tim to be assigned as reviewers
Simplifying the Installation Process: No updates; if anyone has ideas, send them to Tim, add comments to discussion ticket, or bring them up during the next dev meeting(s)

Upcoming Topics

DOIs and handles: Pierre Lasou has shared ideas with Tim and Holger via email; will share publicly with the group at the next dev meeting
Refactoring and simplifying Live Import and External Data frameworks: No updates, but welcome to add thoughts to this issue and find collaborators

Board Review

Reviewed and discussed Make the CC license field component configurable in DSpace 8.0
- Can be accepted as-is, once code conflicts are cleaned up
- Question was brought up whether this should be moved to 9.0 or to 8.1; will discuss this further
Scopus metadata import: put DOIs in dc.identifier.doi
- Reviewed the discussion on this ticket and the code changes
- Relates back to where we want to store DOIs in general
- This is part of the larger discussion how we handle DOIs and where they should be stored; need to create a standard, discuss at the Oct. 17 meeting
Exclude submitter information in solr indexing
- Elicit feedback from developer as to why have anonymized submission; need to understand why placeholder name is useful
Support for multiple input files per process
- Missing automated tests
- Need to understand better why input files need to be type based according to developer's solution (why only one per type?)

Testing Pull Requests

Tim encouraged committers and developers to continue to test pull requests, do code reviews (see Testing DSpace Github Pull Requests)