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Notes

9.0 Release Schedule

• Feature PR deadline is tomorrow, Feb 21, 2025
  • Anything that comes in after that will be tabled to 10.0
  • If anything is running late, let Tim know as soon as possible
• Next deadlines after that is March 14 - initial review of Feature PRs - and March 28, Feature PR Merge Deadline

Discussion Topics

• First Meeting of the DSpace & DSpace-CRIS Technology Planning Group happened last week Thursday
  • This meeting was mainly to get everyone up to speed, no other news or reports at this point

Board Review

• Needs Reviewer Assigned column: Tim flagged a few PRs as high priority (mostly code relating to upgrades) to try to make sure they go into 9.0
  • Many of these PRs have merge conflicts, please work on these to resolve the conflicts so that we can make these easier to test
• Want to go through the following three PRs in order (as each impacts the other)
  1. Upgrade to Bootstrap 5 (#3506)
     • Already assigned to Giuseppe and Tim
     • Moved to "Under Review" column
     • This upgrade impacts the themes
  2. Upgrade to Angular (#3717)
     • Assigned to Giuseppe
  3. Migration to Angular Control Syntax (#3997)
     • Would like to get testers for these
     • Tim assigned to this one in addition to Art
     • This one shouldn't impact the themes
     • Giuseppe: they will resolve the merge conflict once the other two have been merged
• #10432: Gets us off the old date classes on the backend in Java, which should resolve the time zone problems that we occasionally see in DSpace
  • Does not work and is not testable yet; Tim will try to work on this tomorrow so that it's testable
  • Mark has volunteered and been assigned
  • Kim Shepherd has volunteered to test dates and been assigned
  • Nick can also test whenever it's ready, has been assigned
• #3994: Affects the way the menus are structured in the Angular UI
  • Not as high priority, but want to keep it in mind
  • Would come after the Bootstrap Angular Control Flow, in a week or two
  • Giuseppe volunteered and was assigned; Tim also assigned himself
• Other non high priority PRs:
  • #9844: Why was Thymeleaf chosen? Pascal will answer the question in the discussion section
    • Need to continue the discussion on this, Tim added to this one
  • #3349, #3355, #9849: all related PRs around ORCID Login
    • Tim added, Art added
  • #3357: Does this add default entities for products and patents? Yes, it seems like it does
    • Do we have any concerns about adding products and patents to DSpace? Do we see this as a good fit for the DSpace data model?
    • Several of these ORCID-related PRs come out of the ORCID community, funded by ORCID
    • Need reviewers or testers for this - There are already some testers who are looking at this
    • Tim assigned to himself
    • If anyone is interested, please test this
  • #9848: skipped for now
  • #9866: 
    • Need to get the merge conflict resolved on these PRs from the developer
    • Yury, Kim was assigned
  • #10407 and #3984: Yury, Martin added
  • #9912, #3507: potentially conflicts with DSpace-CRIS, skipped for now
  • #3338: needs to have merge conflict resolved by developer, assigned to Alex; Tim will review backend PR (#9882)
  • #3540: allows to put geospatial data in metadata to be rendered in a map on search results or item page
    • treated as stand-alone, not dependent on other PR
    • need merge conflicts resolved and testers
    • backend is small, front-end a bit larger
    • Giuseppe, Tim will review; Eike volunteered as tester (GitHub handle: Leano1998)
  • #3722: needs testers and review; related to edit metadata fields
    • Giuseppe volunteered as reviewer
  • #3740: Adding a contact telephone field to the UI
    • Not high priority, will table this one for the moment
  • #10129: make text extraction into XML document from PDF possible
    • Also not high priority; related issue is #10105
    • If anyone is interested, reviewers and testers are welcome
    • Mark: ask contributor for explanation on how this is intended to be used
  • #10170:  Tim assigned himself
  • #3785: Probably not high priority, but this is very small
    • Giuseppe volunteered as reviewer
  • #10237: try to find a way to allow the submission form to autocomplete values based on existing metadata values
    • If anyone interested, additional testers or reviewers are welcome (Damian already assigned)
    • Is using the SOLR suggestion authority? 
    • Giuseppe volunteered to review
  • #10294, #300, #3882: Yury and Tim added 
  • #10333: No volunteers at the moment, not high priority
    • Tim added himself
  • #3987 and #10410: Tim added himself; need additional testers and reviewers
  • #10431 and #4016: allowing ability to have labels for alternative content
• There are still things in the "Under Review" column, please take care of those and final PRs created for features

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