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 14:00-15:00 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
- (5 mins) Marketing WG update: what has been done so far, what is being planned ahead of OR2019
- Preview Release Planning (Deadline/Goal is April 18). What's left to do? What availability do we have for work in May (to try to achieve Beta by OR2019)?
- Preview Release Theme: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/376
- Should we apply this to master or a special branch (just for preview release)?
- Do we have any ideas on a theming strategy going forward?
- (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) (Art Lowel (Atmire), Paulo Graça , Tim Donohue https://github.com/4Science/DSpace/pull/65)
- (REST Contract) Edit Homepage news: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/45 (Ben Bosman - has outstanding questions/comments) (Lower priority)
- (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)
PRs Needing Review
- https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/41 (Waiting on updates from Ben Bosman ) (REST Contract) Group and eperson management:
(REST Contract) Configurable Entities (Part 1 - Architecture & Display): https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/57 (Mark H. Wood - approved., Paulo Graça - approved, Andrea Bollini (4Science) )
(REST) EPerson profile PATCH functionality : https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2257 (Andrea Bollini (4Science) , Tim Donohue . This PR currently has minor merge conflicts.)
(REST) Configurable Entities (Part 1 - Architecture & Display): https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2376 (Tom Desair reviewed, Paulo Graça , Andrea Bollini (4Science) )
(REST) MyDSpace Endpoint PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2391 ( Ben Bosman , Tim Donohue , Kevin Van de Velde (Atmire) ) - previous discussion here: https://github.com/4Science/DSpace/pull/65
(Angular) Transfer to .po message format - Initial PR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/366 (Paulo Graça - changes requested, Tim Donohue , Art Lowel (Atmire) - requested updates. Currently failing build.)
(Angular) Configurable Entities (Part 1 - Architecture & Display): https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/372 ( Paulo Graça - approved. Giuseppe Digilio (4Science) , Tim Donohue )
- (Angular) Preview release theme: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/376 (Tim Donohue - Should this be merged into "master" or a "preview" branch? May need to discuss next week?)
- (Angular) Additional docs and tests: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/380 (Paulo Graça)
- (Angular) Fix facet UI issue: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/382 (Paulo Graça, Tim Donohue)
- (Angular) Fix 2 small edit item metadata issues: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/383 (Paulo Graça, Tim Donohue)
(Angular Bug) https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/368 (Andrea Bollini (4Science), Art Lowel (Atmire) )
- (Backend) One Webapp Backend - Initial PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2265 (Ben Bosman , Mark H. Wood , Terrence W Brady - tested and found issues in getting RDF/SWORDv1 working in Docker)
- This PR will have a follow-up PR to rename the "dspace-spring-rest" webapp to "dspace-server" and update all URL configurations
- Docker changes to merge after this PR is merged: https://github.com/DSpace-Labs/DSpace-Docker-Images/pull/96
- (Backend) Upgrading to Handle Server v9: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2394 (Mark H. Wood)
PRs Merged this week!
(Angular) Bootstrap security update: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/375
(Angular) Fix pagination on the home page: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/377
(Angular) Search performance optimizations: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/374
(Angular) Submission implementation: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/279
(Backend) Performance Testing bug: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2379
(REST Contract) Minor changes to sync with the mydspace REST implementation https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/55
(REST) Sub-PR to add more Integration Tests into PR#2376's branch: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2388
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 Contract) Edit Homepage News: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/45
- Delayed until after Preview release. General agreement (in meeting on March 21, 2019) that storing HTML in metadata fields is not really ideal behavior. Metadata (from a librarian standpoint) tends to be free of format-related markup (as that allows for easier sharing, understanding of metadata. Currently Community & Collection homepage information is HTML-based and is stored in metadata that is appropriate for a minor subset of information (like the title) but it is better to move large/rich text to bitstreams.
- Proposal here is to consider storing HTML-based markup (for Site, Community & Collection homepages) in Bitstream(s) associated with the object in question. May allow for more CMS-lite behavior in the future
- Timeline for this is uncertain. Possibly in 7 or 8. May depend on how/whether it can be scoped.
- (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 first few weeks of April, 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)
Notes
Configurable Entities name will stay the same. WG had a great discussion about changing the name of configurable entities and considered many alternatives, but ultimately decided to keep the name at configurable entities as the most accurate descriptor of the feature
- DSpace 7 release announcement being prepared for the preview release
- Translated & released by user groups (at least 5 languages)
- Page on dspace.org for all DSpace 7 information, news, links.
- OR2019 advertisement
- T-Shirts at OR2019 featuring the new DSpace logo
- pin on buttons for specific "ambassadors" at OR. "Ask me about DSpace 7"
- Slides with short testimonials - can be included in various DSpace 7 presentations
- Promotion of DSpace 7. Marketing timeline in late summer / fall. Developed five goals for promotion of DSpace 7 and promoting DSpace generally.