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.
Date
from 15:00-16:00 UTC (At end of March, this meeting will switch to 14:00 UTC)
Location: https://duraspace.zoom.us/my/dspace (Meeting ID: 502 527 3040).
- More connection options available at DSpace Meeting Room
Agenda
(15 mins) Developer Stand Up - Developers give brief updates on their effort (or their team's effort).
- Update/see "Current Work" section below based on your status. Please feel free to update prior to meeting.
- Please highlight any new work (needing reviews/testing), any blockers (for you), and any discussion topics you may have.
- (30 mins) General Discussion Topics
- Solr upgrade is ready to merge (already at +2). Is everyone ready? https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2058
- This will affect developers (everyone needs to install Solr)
- This will also affect the demo REST API (next time it is updated)
- (tentative. lower priority) Edit Homepage News: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/45
- Reporting back on implementation suggestions/ideas. Do we implement as metadata on the Site object (similar to Community/Collection news sections)?
- (add a discussion topic)
- Solr upgrade is ready to merge (already at +2). Is everyone ready? https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2058
- (15 mins) Planning for next week
- Assigning PRs for Review
- Next tasks from Development Planning Spreadsheet
Attendees
- Mark H. Wood
- Giuseppe Digilio (4Science)
- Ben Bosman
- Pascal-Nicolas Becker
- Chris Wilper
- Terrence W Brady
- Pablo Prieto
- Paulo Graça
Current Work
= Highest Priority tasks (please prioritize these reviews/tasks over others). Currently this lists tasks/features that need to be completed for Preview Release.
= review done (this week), changes were requested.
= review done, approved.
= review done, merge conflict or other minor changes requests
Tickets / PRs In Progress
- (Angular) Adding Accessibility via Travis CI https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/356 (work in progress) (Lower priority)
- (Angular) MyDSpace UI (work in progress) (Timeline:
Should be ready by Feb 28,delayed 5th March, delayed 12th March due to sub optimal Search implementation, need to run against the updated MyDSpace REST API PR) - (REST Contract) Edit Homepage news: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/45 (Ben Bosman - has outstanding questions/comments) (Lower priority)
- (REST) MyDSpace Endpoint (Andrea Bollini (4Science) - EARLY Reviews Needed. Reviewers: Ben Bosman , Tim Donohue (everything in place, first review comments answered, ITs provided on the 3rd March ) on the 4Science repo against the 2312 PR https://github.com/4Science/DSpace/pull/65
- (REST) Updating Owning Collections: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2283 (Kevin Van de Velde (Atmire) - changes requested. Implementation doesn't align with contract) (Timeline: Should be ready a week after the entities are merged)
- (REST) Item Mapper functionality: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2282 (Kevin Van de Velde (Atmire) - changes requested. Implementation doesn't align with contract) (Timeline: Should be ready a week after the entities are merged)
- Configurable Entities PRs for Angular & REST (coming soon from DSpace 7 Entities Working Group)
PRs Needing Review
- (REST Contract) Group and eperson management: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/41 (Waiting on updates from Ben Bosman )
- (REST) Workflow Endpoint: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2312 (Tim Donohue , Ben Bosman Re-reviewed and additional feedback added., All change requests implemented - answers provided also for latest feedbacks)
- (REST) EPerson profile PATCH functionality : https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2257 (Andrea Bollini (4Science) , Tim Donohue . This PR currently has merge conflicts & has outstanding feedback from Tom Desair)
- (REST) Fix bug where CORS Headers missing when Exception thrown: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2208 (Paulo Graça , Tim Donohue - approved)
- (Angular) Submission implementation: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/279 (Art Lowel (Atmire) , Paulo Graça - reviewed, Tim Donohue all received suggestion applied, ready to be merged after approval)
- (Angular) Transfer to .po message format - Initial PR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/366 (Paulo Graça , Tim Donohue , Art Lowel (Atmire) )
- Even though not all keys are present yet, please provide feedback if this can be merged so we can stop new keys being added to the json format.
- (Angular) Context sensitive admin menus https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/367 (Paulo Graça , Tim Donohue - approved)
- (Backend) One Webapp Backend - Initial PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2265 (Ben Bosman , Mark H. Wood )
- (Backend) Upgrading Solr Server for DSpace - Initial PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2058 (Terrence W Brady , Kim Shepherd , Art Lowel (Atmire))
- Might have an impact on MyDSpace PR (See "In Progress" section)?
PRs Merged this week!
- (REST) Metadata PATCH support: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2313
- (Angular) Browse by date and Starts-With component: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/364
BLOCKED
- (Angular) Move Item Component: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/335
- Blocked by DSpace PR#2283
- (Angular) Item-Collection Mapper: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/348
- Blocked by DSpace PR#2282
Delayed
- (REST) Scripts & Processes endpoint: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/17
- Concurrency in DSpace 7 (or 8). What do we want to do when multiple editors are editing the same object? Needs further analysis regarding implementation details
- We've decided (in meeting on March 7, 2019) to use ETags to implement concurrency. REST Contract notes on ETags: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract#etags--conditional-headers
- ETags only update of the two fields match. If someone edits first, your edit would fail and you would get a fail response (422?)
- ETags seems to have broader support in other REST APIs. Recommended also by both Art and Andrea.
Priorities for Preview Release
As discussed in previous DSpace 7 meetings, our DSpace 7 Preview release is aimed for end of March, followed by a Beta in May (before OR2019). The top priorities for the Preview Release are (in this order):
- Submission & Workflow UI / backend
- Configurable Entities (from DSpace 7 Entities Working Group)
- Upgrading Solr Server for DSpace (not required for Preview, as there's no user facing features. However, the earlier we feel comfortable merging this effort the better)