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

Angular meeting

Attendees

Notes

  • Waffle board: https://waffle.io/DSpace/dspace-angular

  • Mergeable PRs:

  • Collection Homepage work: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/63
  • Full Item Page: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/100
    • Reviewed by Art. Looks good
    • Tim Donohue to give it a quick review & test
  • Art working on hooking up Angular UI to the REST API Demo: http://dspace7.4science.it/dspace-spring-rest/
    • Some minor fixes necessary in how the demo returns embedded content vs how it was expected in mockups
    • Items also don't yet have a Collection relationship (other than their owning collection)
    • Also need more feedback from REST API team on how Bundles will be treated (currently do not exist in REST API). See  Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.
      • Not a blocker yet, but needs feedback from Andrea Bollini (4Science).  Currently have a workaround in place in Angular UI for 3490
      • Currently no way to determine which thumbnail to display, as it's dependent on "primary bitstream" concept, which is part of Bundle
  • Waffle board review. The "Ready" tasks are up-to-date and ordered by priority
  • Angular 4 upgrade
    • We've delayed this a bit, waiting for various third-party modules to become Angular 4 compatible
    • Still not the highest priority, but we do want to upgrade soon
  • Texas A&M have a DSpace Sprint coming up from June 5-16. However, much of this time is working towards their local upgrade to DSpace 6. May have some time to spare to grab a few DSpace 7 tickets if the process goes well.
  • Open Repositories 2017 prep
    • We may want to implement simple theming...likely not yet configurable in the UI layer. But, just show an alternative theme (perhaps based on the new DSpace logo)
    • We need to update the demo REST API with some "real" looking data. Tim will email Art & Andrea about this.
  • Theming discussion
    • We need simple theming in the UI, to minimally manage logos, fonts, colors (also at Community/Collection levels)
    • Question: This will require persistence to what is stored in the theme. Will that persistence be stored on the node.js layer, or provided in the DSpace REST API?
    • Answer: The DSpace REST API plans to have a "configuration" endpoint which could persist this theme information. It's not yet built out/designed, but is in the proposed endpoints: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/blob/master/endpoints.md
  • <meta> tags for SEO. These are available now in Angular Universal.  We should create a ticket for this. Might be "nice to have" soon (possibly by OR2017), but it's not as flashy.

REST meeting

Attendees

Notes

  • Andrea is out this week at a conference. He didn't have a chance to pass along any updates (so we'll have to get them later via Slack or wait for next week)
  • Need Andrea's feedback on   Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.  (as noted above in Angular UI discussion)
  • Also we need to update the demo REST API with some real data prior to OR2017.  Again, Tim will email Art & Andrea on this.


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