Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
Overview
DSpace Developer meetings are a time when Committers and interested Developers can discuss new software features, upcoming releases of DSpace software, and generally plan out the roadmap of DSpace. All meetings are public. We welcome anyone and everyone to attend, speak their opinions or just listen in on the discussions. Please note that we archive all discussions (see Meeting Archives), as a service for those who are unable to attend.
Meeting Schedule
DSpace Developer meetings take place on the following schedule:
- Every Thursday (except where noted in agendas) from 14:00-15:00 UTC (10am-11am EDT) in https://lyrasis.zoom.us/my/dspace?pwd=RTk4QUhISnhPRi9YenVrTFJKbDllQT09 (Meeting ID: 502 527 3040).
- Additional connection options (phone, etc) detailed at DSpace Meeting Room.
- To determine which time we are meeting at during a given week, please view the DSpace Public Events Calendar (iCal version). You can also subscribe to the meeting schedule via that calendar.
- Also, see the world clock to determine the meeting time where you live.
- All meetings are held for 1 hour.
- Slack is used for meeting reminders, sharing agendas and day-to-day discussions.
- #dev: For ongoing, day-to-day (between meetings) updates / discussions / questions.
- #angular-ui : For DSpace (Angular) UI updates, discussions and/or questions.
- #rest-api : For DSpace REST API updates, discussions and/or questions.
Meeting topics often include:
- Recent updates on upcoming DSpace releases, bug fixes or features
- Reviewing of recent reported issues/bugs/feature requests
- Occasionally we vote or make decisions on upcoming DSpace technology plans/roadmap (see Developer Voting Procedures for more info)
If you are unable to attend a meeting, please feel free to add your own notes/comments to the meeting's wiki page.
Developers Meeting on Thurs, June 27, 2024
Time/Location
from 14:00-15:00 UTC
Location: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/my/dspace?pwd=RTk4QUhISnhPRi9YenVrTFJKbDllQT09 (Meeting ID: 502 527 3040). Passcode: dspace
- More connection options available at DSpace Meeting Room
No meeting on Thursday, July 4 because of the USA Fourth of July holiday. Tim Donohue will be out of the office from July 4-8, returning on Tuesday, July 9.
Agenda
- Discussion Topics - If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it.
- 8.0 Final Release is out the door! Congratulations to everyone
- Brief retrospective. Any feedback / thoughts / brainstorms to keep in mind to help future releases (9.0 and beyond)?
- DSpace 7.6.2 release
- Release as soon as (reasonably) possible.
- PRs created to backport
/api/security/csrf
REST endpoint: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9599 and https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/3063
- DSpace 9.0 release (tentative April 2025)
- 9.0 Board is created: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/31/
- Early ideas/brainstorms captured at DSpace Release 9.0 Status
- Ongoing Discussion: High CPU with DSpace 7 SSR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3110
- (Other topics?)
- 8.0 Final Release is out the door! Congratulations to everyone
- Board Review & assignments:
- Backlog Board - Are there any tickets here stuck in the "Triage" column? We'd like to keep this column as small as possible.
- 8.0 Project Board - Assign new PRs to volunteers to code review and/or test.
- 7.6.x Project Board - Assign new PRs to volunteers to code review and/or test.
- Upcoming Topics: (Let us know if there are topics you want to discuss in future weeks)
- None at this time
Attendees
- Tim Donohue
- Holger Lenz
- 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
Current Work
Project Boards
- DSpace 9.0 board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/31
- DSpace 8.x and 7.6.x board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/29
To quickly find PRs assigned to you for review, visit https://github.com/pulls/review-requested (This is also available in the GitHub header under "Pull Requests → Review Requests")
Goals for 8.0
This were decided by Steering in their meeting on June 28, 2023.
- Move forward major features which missed 7.x.
- COAR Notify support (4Science & Harvard): https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8120
- Development proposal page: Implementation of the COAR Notify protocol in DSpace 8
- OpenAIRE integration with notification broker/claim service (4Science)
- Porting "REST-Based Quality Control Reports" from old REST API to new one. (U of Laval, Canada)
- Duplicate Detection in Submission ported from DSpace-CRIS (The Library Code)
- COAR Notify support (4Science & Harvard): https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8120
- Include new features which empower users in the admin UI. Make things easier for Admins.
- Accepting community contributions of any 6.x features which missed 7.x
- Improve documentation, training to allow for greater community contributions. (Ease setup/install/customization, etc.)
- Per DSpace 7 WG meeting on June 29, 2023, this may include dependency upgrades/maintenance (Angular, Spring, Solr, Tomcat, etc). May also include necessary code updates/refactors to ease in ongoing maintenance.
- Release Goal: June 17-24, 2024
- In parallel to 8.0, proof of concepts / planning regarding modularization:
- Angular : library-based architecture proposal (4Science)
- DSpace Preservation-enabled Storage via OCFL (Lyrasis, post-8.0)
Goals for 7.6.2
Deadline is TBD for 7.6.2
- Bug/security fixes only. Release will occur when sufficient fixes have been made to warrant a release.
- New "themeable components" (for dspace-angular) are allowed in bug fix releases, provided that they don't significantly modify component behavior or similar.
- Bug fixes should have one Pull Request
- A PR against either the "dspace-7_x" maintenance branch OR the "main" branch.
- We will automatically generate a PR against the other branch using the "port to [branch]" labels & the "Port merged Pull Request" GitHub Action
- (In the case of complex bug fixes, it is possible this automatic port action will fail. In that situation a manual port PR may need to be created.)
Try "Pull Request Trading" for a quicker review
Do you have a PR stuck in "under review" that you really want to see move forward? Or maybe it's someone else's PR but you want to get it more attention?
See Trading reviews on Pull Requests for how to get immediate attention to that PR!
Notes
Discussed the release of DSpace 8.0
- DSpace 8.0 was released on Monday, June 24, 2024. Tim Donohue thanked all committers for their work and their contributions towards version 8.0.
- Reflected on lessons learned from work on version 8.0 and what can be improved to help future releases
- Tim Donohue shared:
- realizing major upgrades earlier in the development cycle; in the development of version 8, the need to upgrade Springboot and Angular was seen somewhat late in the development cycle, which lead to delays
- improving and streamlining the code review process, which has also lead to delays; this is partly due to a small pool of reviewers
- Tim Donohue shared:
Discussed the release of 7.6.2
- Goal: Dspace version 7.6.2 will be released within the next two weeks
- Most fixes for 7.6.2 were identified through work on DSpace version 8
- Accessibility issues contain a large part of what needs to be done on 7.6.2
- Two PRs were created to backport /api/security/csrf REST endpoint: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9599 and https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/3063; Kim Shepherd volunteered to work on them
Discussed ideas for DSpace version 9
- Tim Donohue has created a board for version 9 on GitHub: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/31/; this board serves as a point to collect ideas and brainstorm features and improvements for version 9
- Any larger ideas and brainstorming for version 9 can go on the DSpace Release 9.0 Status page on the wiki
- Anyone is welcome and encouraged to add ideas for version 9 development to this page
- Alternative, anyone is welcome to message Tim Donohue with ideas for version 9 development
Continued the ongoing discussion around High CPU usage with DSpace 7 SSR (see https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3110)
- Anyone is welcome to add ideas on how to improve performance issues in the "Brainstorms" section on https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3110
- Discussed ideas of how do improve performance
- Fixes should revolve around identifying the underlying problem, not just patching a workaround solution
- Pascal Becker shared suggestions on how to improve performance by sending fewer larger requests bundled together instead of many small requests
- Some examples include the submission form requesting each section one by one, requesting all configs one by one, requesting all permissions one by one
- Tim will copy details into DSpace Release 9.0 Status page
- Discussed performance issues around REST API calls (private vs. public). Ideally, SSR requests (via Node) should be sent via a private URL (sometimes localhost) to the REST API, instead of using the public URL (which is slower as it needs to go through DNS, etc.)
- Art mentioned that we also have an outdated Submission library in the Angular UI. We need to replace it or create our own submission forms. See also https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/2216
No meeting will be held on July 4, 2024, due to the public holiday in the US
(End of notes)
Meeting Archives
- 2024-08-22 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-08-08 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-08-01 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-07-25 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-07-18 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-07-11 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-06-27 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-06-20 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-06-13 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-05-30 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-05-23 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-05-16 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-05-09 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-05-02 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-04-25 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-04-18 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-04-11 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-04-04 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-03-28 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-03-21 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-03-07 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-02-29 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-02-22 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-02-15 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-02-08 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-02-01 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-01-25 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-01-18 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-01-11 DSpace Developers Meeting
Historical Notes and Transcripts from all Developers Meetings are available off of the Developer Meeting Archives page.