Developers Meeting on Thurs, June

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12, 2025

Time/Location

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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. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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?
  4. DSpace 10.0
     1. 10.0 Board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/32
     2. 10.0 Priorities: DSpace Release 10.0 Status (Depends heavily on a final decision around potential merger with DSpace-CRIS)
  5. Other topics
     
     1. (Please add anything you'd like to discussSome PR highlights for board review, if time: -kim
        https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/4434 (+1 already, small)
        https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/4448 (+1 by me, small, important)
        https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/10820 (ORCID bug fix, important, testers needed)
        
• 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 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

Dev meeting schedule

• No meeting next week due to OR/U.S. holiday; next dev meeting scheduled for June 26

Open Repositories 2025

• OR2025 starts this Sunday
• The developers workshop starts this Sunday
  • If you're attending the developers workshop on Sunday and would like to suggest a topic for discussion, please add your thoughts to OR2025 DSpace Developer Meet-Up and Q&A
• Also see DSpace at OR2025 for all DSpace-related presentations at OR2025

DSpace & DSpace-CRIS Merger

• The Technology Planning Group has concluded its review of DSpace-CRIS and DSpace Differences
  • If you see something missing from this page, please add it
• No further updates; no decision as of yet as to the merger
• Strategy Planning Group has submitted a draft of the Strategic Vision Document to Steering

Maintenance Releases

• Internal deadline for release is June 26; this is a tentative deadline, if we see there's more work to be done, we can postpone to early July
• Reviewed backports front-end: 
  • "port to dspace-7_x"
    • #4290: Moving along, coming soon
    • #3276: Assigned to Giuseppe, also coming soon 
    • #2774: Easier to port, will happen after OR
  • "port to dspace-8_x"
    • #4218: Not yet been ported; reminder to work on this if possible
    • #2774: see above
• Reviewed backports back-end:
  •  port to dspace-7_x" 
    • #10688: No movement yet, reminder to 4Science team to please take a look and see if it can be ported
    • #10580: Needs a very small port; Tim may be able to help after OR
    • #9733: Taken care of, needs review
  • "port to dspace-8_x"
    • #10688: see above
    • #9773: see above
• All in all, looking good, just a few outstanding backports; would be great if we can get those in
  • If anything cannot be backported, add a comment to PR or let Tim know directly
• Any bug fixes that we still see out there, we can still get into the maintenance releases

DSpace 10.0 Release

• Status page has been created
• More details regarding priorities will come, feel free to work on bug fixes and improvements in the meantime

10.0 Board

• Lot has been worked on in the past weeks, there is a lot in the "Reviewer Approved" column; they will get merged as much as Tim has time; lot of these are bug fixes
• Can also be approved by other committers – if you are a committer, please consider reviewing and approving them
• Reviewed #4431:
  • Kristof approved Kim's PR; very small, we'll go ahead and merge it and move it forward
• Reviewed #4448: 
  • This should be 1 approval, it's very small; Giuseppe will add comment regarding "defer", was added as reviewer
• Reviewed #10820:
  • Pierre volunteered to test it, will follow up with Kim or add comments on PR itself; Tim can help also after OR
• Reviewed #4019:
  • If possible, would like to get this moved forward relatively quickly (in combination with the other PR)

Upcoming Discussion

• June 26 meeting: will concentrate on maintenance releases
• Will have further discussion on code refactoring at July 3 meeting (4Science and Atmire). This include #4019 and upcoming PR from Atmire providing code cleanup for Angular decorators

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