2020-04-09 DSpace 7 Working Group Meeting

Date

09 Apr 2020 from 14:00-15:00 UTC

Location: https://lyrasis.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.
• (25 mins) General Discussion Topics
  
  1. (REST) (beta 2) Subresources should obey access restrictions https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2726
  2. Finishing up beta2 (and possibly postponing some later PRs to beta3)
  3. (Feel free to add other topics)
• (20 mins) Planning for next week
  
  • Claim tasks for next week from DSpace 7 Release Plan spreadsheet
  • Assigning PRs for Review

Attendees

• Art Lowel (Atmire) 

• Andrea Bollini (4Science)  

• Tim Donohue

• Lieven Droogmans 

• Mark H. Wood
• Giuseppe Digilio (4Science) 
• Ben Bosman
• Chris Wilper
• Paulo Graça 

7.0 Release Goals

These resources define the prioritization and general schedule we are working towards

• DSpace 7 Release Goals : overview of goals/timelines & beta release process
• DSpace 7 Release Plan spreadsheet:  our planning spreadsheet which details which features are scheduled for each Beta release.

Current Work

Claim a Ticket!

If you do not have access in JIRA or GitHub to officially claim the ticket you wish to work on, contact Tim Donohue

• Available Angular UI Tickets
  
  • Open issues in 7.0beta2 milestone (highest priority)
  • Open issues in 7.0beta3 milestone (second highest priority)
  • Open issues flagged as "Difficulty: low".  These may be a good starting point for newer developers.
• Available REST API Tickets
  
  • Unassigned tickets scheduled for 7.0beta2 (highest priority)
  • Unassigned tickets scheduled for 7.0beta3 (second highest priority)
  • General REST API tickets flagged as "low hanging fruit".  These may be a good starting point for newer developers.
  • General REST API unassigned bug tickets.  Again, might be a good starting point for newer developers.

PRs Needing Review

1. (REST Contract) related to the scripts & processes PR above (related to PR 2648 below) https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/99 (NEEDS UPDATES FROM KEVIN) (Andrea Bollini (4Science) -  REVIEWED, Tim Donohue )
2. (REST Contract) Remove unnecessary exception in license PATCH https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/118 ( Andrea Bollini (4Science), Tim Donohue)
3. (NEW) (REST Contract) Configuration property retrieval https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/119 (Tim Donohue -  feedback added, NEEDS SECOND REVIEWER)
4. (REST) (beta4) Scripts & processes: importing and exporting csv's https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2648 (WAITING ON PR UPDATES FROM KEVIN) (Andrea Bollini (4Science) -  REVIEWED, Tim Donohue - added summary of way forward Mark H. Wood  )
5. (REST) (tentative 7.1) [DS-4281]: Metadata suggestions in the live import https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2712 (Tim Donohue - REVIEW BY April 9, Andrea Bollini (4Science) - REVIEW BY April 9 if possible)
6.  (REST) (beta 2) REST API should respect "metadata.hide" configurations https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2719 (Possibly one approval) (Tim Donohue,  Andrea Bollini (4Science))
7.  (REST) (beta 2) Edit Community/Collection - Assign Roles/Groups https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2722 (Tim Donohue -  feedback added, Andrea Bollini (4Science) - Feedback added, Ben Bosman )
8.  (REST) (beta 2) Subresources should obey access restrictions https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2726 (Tim Donohue  -New feedback added, Andrea Bollini (4Science)  implementation approach need discussion)
9.  (NEW) (REST) beta2 Authorization as someone with admin right IT : https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2736 (Tim Donohue -  minor feedback added,  Julian Timal (eScire) , NEEDS SECOND REVIEWER)
10. (REST) (beta 3) Administer Workflow (Abort WorkflowItem, Delete WorkflowItem) https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2727 (Tim Donohue, Andrea Bollini (4Science)  implementation approach need discussion)
11. (NEW) (REST) Configurable whitelist for "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2735 (NEEDS REVIEWERS)
12. (NEW) (REST) Assume login feature https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2740 (NEEDS REVIEWERS)
13.  (Angular) (beta2) Edit Community - Assign Roles/Groups https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/632 (Possibly one approval) (Tim Donohue - minor usability issue, Art Lowel (Atmire)
    1. Depends on REST PR #2722 (see above).
14.  (NEW) (Angular) (beta2) Edit Collection - Assign Roles/Groups https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/643 (Tim Donohue , Art Lowel (Atmire) )
15. (NEW) (Angular) (beta 3) Administer Workflow https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/650 (NEEDS REVIEWERS)
16. (NEW) (Angular) Request By UUID bugfix https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/648 (NEEDS REVIEWERS)
17. (Angular) (beta3) Scripts & Processes Admin UI https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/636 (Tim Donohue, Giuseppe Digilio (4Science), Craig Rosenbeck)
18. (Angular) (EARLY beta3) Switch to Angular CLI https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/625 (Tim Donohue, Giuseppe Digilio (4Science))
19. (Backend) DS-626 : Exchange usage data with IRUS https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2664 (NEEDS REVIEWERS)
    
20. (Backend) (tentative 7.2) DS-4440 GDPR - Anonymize Statistics Feature: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2692 (Andrea Bollini (4Science), Ben Bosman, Tim Donohue)
21. (Backend / Security) (EARLY beta3) Upgrade Spring Boot, Spring & Spring HATEOAS: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2720 (Andrea Bollini (4Science),  Craig Rosenbeck)

PRs Coming Soon

1.  (Angular) (beta2) Edit resource policies (ETA 3rd April) Giuseppe Digilio (4Science)

PRs Merged this week!

1.   (Angular) (beta 2) Edit Item Bitstreams Tab  https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/577
2.   (Angular) (beta 2) Ensure workflow members can only perform actions assigned  https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/608 
3.  (REST Contract) (beta 3) New User Registration & Forgot password https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/117 
4.   (Angular) (beta2) Manage Groups https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/613
5.   (REST) (beta 2) Group/EPerson management: Delete, retrieve parent object & patch support https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2723 

Blocked

1. (Blocked PRs go here)

Delayed / Needs Discussion

1. Managing Authorization info in Angular UI : How to pass Authorization rights (i.e. logged in user's access rights) from REST API to Angular?  See for example:  https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/393
   1. In July 25 meeting, we noted this probably cannot be resolved with just one simple solution. May need to look at different options for different scenarios
   2. Work is ongoing, but has been started in these areas:
      1. Summary of ideas: REST Authorization 
      2. Contract for Authorization Endpoints: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/92
      3. Contract for ResourcePolicies: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/87
2. Initial Performance Testing from Chris.
   1. https://cwilper.github.io/dspace-perftest/
3. (REST Contract) Edit Homepage News: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/45
   
   1. Delayed. 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.  
   2. 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
   3. Timeline for this is uncertain.  Possibly in 7 or 8. May depend on how/whether it can be scoped.
4.  (Angular Bug) https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/368 ( Art Lowel (Atmire) )
5. 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
   1. 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
   2. ETags only update of the two fields match. If someone edits first, your edit would fail and you would get a fail response (422?)
   3. ETags seems to have broader support in other REST APIs.  Recommended also by both Art and Andrea.

Notes