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, August 3, 2023
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
Next week's meeting (Aug 10) will be cancelled
No meeting on Thursday, August 10 as Tim Donohue will be on vacation (will be offline from Aug 10-15, returning on Weds, Aug 16.)
Agenda
- Discussion Topics - If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it.
- New behavior of "port to dspace-7_x" and "port to main" labels
- When a PR with one of these labels is merged, a GitHub action will attempt to auto-port that merged PR to the other branch.
- For example: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2363 and https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2415
- Demo Site Migration:
- New demo site available for testing at https://preview.dspace.org/
- Please let Tim Donohue know if you notice obvious issues. Should have identical settings to https://demo7.dspace.org except that it doesn't support Shibboleth at this time.
- PR necessary for new demo site: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9004
- 7.6.x release topics - bug-fixes only.
- Any topics to discuss?
- 8.0 release topics
- Any topics to discuss?
- Ongoing discussions. Any brief updates / brainstorms from anyone? (Feel free to also add thoughts to the pages themselves)
- Angular : library-based architecture proposal
- DSpace Preservation-enabled Storage via OCFL (post-8.0)
- Tabled developer discussion (from July 27 mtg): Should we allow "Making ___ component themeable" PRs to be added to 7.6.1? They are not exactly bug fixes, but do allow for additional theming capabilities. For example: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2362
- (Other topics?)
- New behavior of "port to dspace-7_x" and "port to main" labels
- 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.
- 7.6.1 Project Board - Assign new PRs to volunteers to code review and/or test.
- 8.0 Project Board - Assign new PRs to volunteers to code review and/or test.
Attendees
- Tim Donohue
- Paulo Graça
- Mark H. Wood
- Grazia Quercia (4Science)
- Corrado Lombardi (4Science)
- Julian Timal (eScire)
- Martin Walk
- Melissa Anez
Upcoming Topics
If you have a topic for a future meeting, please add it here.
- 4Science proposed to present
- ORCID Login improvement on Auguest 2023 (exact date is to be determined)
Current Work
Project Boards
- DSpace 7.6.1 board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/29
- DSpace 8.0 board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/27
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.
- 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: April 2023
- In parallel to 8.0, proof of concepts / planning regarding modularization (e.g. 4Science angular proposal) and OCFL/preservation storage (Lyrasis proposal to be discussed in more detail).
Goals for 7.6.1
- Bug/security fixes only. Release will occur when sufficient fixes have been made to warrant a release.
- Fixes should have two Pull Requests (exceptions may be made for very small fixes)
- A PR against the "dspace-7_x" maintenance branch to apply to the next 7.6.x release.
- A PR against the "main" branch to fix this same bug for the 8.0 release.
- (NOTE: Once one PR is reviewed & approved, the other will be merged at the same time.)
Notes
- Discussed "New behavior of "port to dspace-7_x" and "port to main" labels" as noted above
- Asked developers to test new (preview) versions of demo site: https://preview.dspace.org/ (runs off
dspace-7_x
Docker scripts) and https://sandbox.dspace.org (runs offmain
Docker scripts)- Likely to be officially released in mid Aug once Tim returns from vacation
- Reminder about "ongoing discussions" listed above
- Reviewed 7.6.1 board and assigned PRs for review.
Meeting Archives
General Developer meeting went on hiatus from Aug 2019 to June 2023
This Developers meeting went on hiatus from August 2019 to June 2023. It was replaced by the DSpace 7 Working Group (2016-2023). See that page for archives of meetings during that time.
Developer meetings began again in July 2023. See meeting notes below
- 2023-12-14 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-12-07 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-11-30 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-11-16 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-11-09 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-11-02 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-10-26 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-10-19 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-10-12 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-10-05 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-09-21 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-09-14 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-09-07 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-08-31 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-08-24 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-08-17 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-08-03 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-07-27 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-07-20 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-07-13 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2023-07-06 DSpace Developers Meeting
Historical Notes and Transcripts from all Developers Meetings are available off of the Developer Meeting Archives page.