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Notes

  • DSpace & DSpace-CRIS potential merger discussions
    • No major updates.  Technology group meets later today.
    • Both groups are working on documenting final recommendations to Steering.  Final decisions on merger will be made by Steering and Leadership Groups.  Timeline for decision is not yet set.
  • Revisiting Audit Trail discussions. What is "good enough" for DSpace 10?
    • Key concern is using Solr as the "primary storage" for Audit Trail.  We want to avoid existing frustrations encountered with Usage Statistics (which also use Sol for primary storage).
    • Lots of good discussion about best approach to move forward.
    • Tim summarized the discussion on the issue ticket in this comment: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8824#issuecomment-3386250414
    • Please add additional feedback to that ticket, if you have any.
  • Clarifications added to DSpace Software Support Policy recently by Committers
    • On dspace-devel, there was a good question about how we manage Angular upgrades to older supported DSpace releases: https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-devel/c/rT1WA_JjkX4
    • This brought up a discussion among Committers about updating our DSpace Software Support Policy to clarify how we manage Angular upgrades (and upgrades of dependencies in general)
    • New bullet point added under "Support for Security Updates → Version(s) Supported" which notes the "Limits to support for dependency updates". See DSpace Software Support Policy
    • Basic idea is that we can only guarantee security updates to DSpace's own code.  When it comes to updating dependencies, it may not be possible to always update dependencies when the update is not "backwards compatible".
    • This comes up most frequently with Angular because Angular releases are only supported for 18 months, and unfortunately are not often "backwards compatible".
    • This means older DSpace supported releases (7.x and 8.x currently) are running unsupported versions of Angular.  They cannot be upgraded to latest Angular because doing so isn't backwards compatible, and would be the equivalent of upgrading to DSpace 9.x.
    • Basic message: We recommend running the latest major release for the most secure DSpace experience. Older releases may be on unsupported versions of Angular.
    • If you have questions, bring them to the dspace-devel email thread (see above), or to the #dev channel on Slack, or to a future meeting.