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, November 2, 2023
Time/Location
from 15:00-16:00 UTC
Meeting time is now 15:00UTC
Our meeting has shifted one hour later because Daylight Saving Time (DST) has ended in Europe. Our Meeting is therefore now from 15:00-16:00 UTC.
- For Europeans (or anyone where DST time has ended), this will mean the meeting is at the same time local time.
- For North Americans (or anyone still in DST time), this will mean the meeting is one hour later. Once DST ends in your region, the meeting will go back to its normal time for you.
Location: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/my/dspace?pwd=RTk4QUhISnhPRi9YenVrTFJKbDllQT09 (Meeting ID: 502 527 3040). Passcode: dspace
- More connection options available at DSpace Meeting Room
8.0 Release Schedule
- New Feature Development Deadlines
- Feature PR Creation Deadline: Friday, Jan 19, 2024
- Feature PR Review/Test Deadline: Friday, Feb 9
- Feature PR Merge Deadline: Friday, Feb 23
- 8.0 Release Candidate: Friday, March 1
- 8.0 Testathon: March 4-15 (two weeks)
- Bug Fix Deadlines
- Bug Fix PR Creation Deadline: Friday, March 29
- Bug Fix PR Merge Deadline: Friday, April 12
- Documentation & Release Week: April 15-19
- 8.0 Release Announced: Monday, April 22, 2024
Agenda
- Discussion Topics - If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it.
- 7.6.x release topics - bug-fixes only.
- 7.6.1 Draft Deadline (pushed back another week)
- Bug Fix PRs created by Fri, Nov 3
- PRs reviewed/merged by Fri, Nov 10
- Release the week of Nov 13-17.
- A few major bugs listed below, but more are on 7.6.1 Project Board
- Performance issues with Groups with 1,000+ Members: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/9052 (Tim).
- Initial PR to fix pagination issues of existing "/api/eperson/groups/[uuid]/epersons" and "/api/eperson/groups/[uuid]/subgroups" endpoints: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9078
- PR to add both "/api/eperson/groups/search/isNotMemberOf" and "/api/eperson/epersons/search/isNotMemberOf" endpoints: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9125
- Angular PR to use new "isNotMemberOf" endpoints and refactor page to no longer load many members at once: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2545
- Performance issues (on Workflow Tasks page) when logged-in EPerson belongs to many Groups: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/9053 (Atmire)
- (Quick fix) Cache 'Administrator' group to improve performance: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9161
- Severe caching issue in submission form: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/2577 (Any progress?)
- Performance issues with Groups with 1,000+ Members: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/9052 (Tim).
- 7.6.1 Draft Deadline (pushed back another week)
- 8.0 release topics
- Updates to the OpenAIRE Correction Service PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/8184 Ready for review & testing again.
- (Other topics?)
- 7.6.x release topics - bug-fixes only.
- 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.
- Upcoming Topics: (Let us know if there are topics you want to discuss in future weeks)
- November 16 - Revisiting the REST Content Reports work in https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2163 and https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/8598
Attendees
- Tim Donohue
- 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
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.
- 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: April 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 7.6.1
- 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.
- 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.)
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
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.