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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. DSpace at OR2025 - Open Repositories 2025 Call for Proposals. Proposals Due on January 13.
  2. DSpace 9.0 release (see release schedule above)
     1. 9.0 Board is created: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/31/
     2. Early ideas/brainstorms captured at DSpace Release 9.0 Status
  3. DSpace 8.1 / 7.6.3 releases (date not yet finalized)
     1. As discussed the last few weeks, we'd like to push out bug-fixes & performance improvements to 8.x and 7.6.x.  A few mentioned priorities...
     2. Using both public/private REST API URLs for better performance (Frontend PR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/3358, Backend PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9856)
     3. Other performance-related PRs:
        1. Frontend performance-related PRs: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+label%3A%22performance+%2F+caching%22+is%3Apr
        2. Backend performance-related PRs: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+label%3A%22performance+%2F+caching%22+is%3Apr
  4. Ongoing Discussions:
     1. High CPU with DSpace 7 SSR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3110
     2. Simplifying the Installation Process: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3184
  5. Other topics
• Board Review:
  • 9.0 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.
  • 8.x and 7.6.x Maintenance Board - 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)
  
  • Discussion of CMS-activities in DSpace:  Several new PRs are adding some basic CMS-light options into DSpace's user interface (namely around Collection/Community homepages).  We should review the approaches and ensure that we agree with the direction:
    • Custom header/footer for Collections: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/3256
    • Custom styles for Collections: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/3250
  • Discussion: how to keep message catalogues in sync? https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3334
  • Discussion/proposal around refactoring and simplifying Live Import and External Data frameworks: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/9758
    (nothing concrete yet but would be great to get thoughts added to this issue and maybe find some collaborators)

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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 
• Nicholas Woodward 
• Sascha Szott 
• Regrets: Scholaris Team

Current Work

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Notes

Release Schedule

• First deadline coming up is Feb 21 for feature PR creation
• Other deadlines are outline in the release schedule (top of this page) and will follow the Feb 21 deadline
• Any question regarding the release schedule, please reach out to Tim

OR2025

• CfP closes on Monday, January 13
• Proposal ideas are described on DSpace at OR2025, please feel free to add your proposals to this page
• Please feel free to reach out to Tim or the OR planning committee directly if you have questions

9.0 Planning

• Steering's priorities are listed on DSpace Release 9.0 Status
• No further updates at this point

7.6.3 and 8.1 Release

• Want to get performance related fixes reviewed and tested before release
• Tentative deadline for release is end of January, depending on how the work on performance related PRs progresses
• Reviewed PRs that need code review / testing:
  • Separate REST APIs for public and private
    • Giuseppe has been working on the backend, got updated today; he is also working on the front end
    • Need help in testing this; feedback from at least 1 individual in a realistic (similar to production) test environment would be very welcome
    • Tim will try it out on his end, but is missing the realistic test environment
    • Goal is to get this tested within the next week

• • Discussed other performance-related PRs:
    • Front-end:
      • #3709: feedback on this is welcome; consider making this configurable
      • #3694: is moving forward, if anyone wants to take a look, please feel free to do so
      • #3682: had a lot of testing and feedback recently; want to add it to the config.example file; if anyone else wants to take a look, please do so
    • Back-end:
      • #10076: no updates on this PR; would be great to get further testing and reviewing on this
      • #10030: reviewers and testers needed; not a large PR; updates the CSV export process; Nick will review
      • #9869: Currently a merge conflict, needs to get updated; anyone who wants to help testing this is welcome

Ongoing Discussions

• High CPU with DSpace 7 SSR: no updates
• Simplifying the Installation Process: if you have ideas, reach out to Tim; good to have done sooner than later 

9.0 Board Review Discussion

• Discussed #9804
• Discussed #3307: large PR, updating translation files; contains merge conflicts; probably good for 9.0, but hard to backport

Action items

•  Start a discussion around squashing PRs on the mailing list Kim Shepherd 

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