2018-01-11 DSpace 7 Working Group Meeting notes

Date

11 Jan 2018

Discussion (combined Angular UI & REST meeting)

Attendees

• Andrea Bollini (4Science)
• Art Lowel (Atmire)
• Giuseppe Digilio (4Science)
• Jonas Van Goolen
• Patrick Trottier
• Terrence W Brady
• Tim Donohue
• Tom Desair

Notes

• First meeting on Zoom: DSpace Meeting Room
• OR2018 Propoals - Finalizing them
  • Three proposals:  REST API workshop (led by Andrea), Angular UI workshop (led by Art), and a general DSpace 7 update talk (led by Tim)
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LL3czkqklcZpSnDT7bvjmSu4FqzOa6uX7KIMO69PSBk/edit
  • Terry volunteers to chip in on REST API workshop
  • All feel the proposals looking good. Andrea, Art & Tim will submit the proposals, respectively.
• DSpace 7 Planning discussion
  • Discussion in last week's Steering Committee meeting about better organizing the DSpace 7 development process.  Possibly even moving towards Sprints.  Would make it easier for institutions to volunteer developers temporarily (for a single sprint, or off & on)
  • First step is to gather "what is left to do", and start to better organize the planning.  Tim will take lead
  • Tim has started a very rough (brain dump) of what is done / in progress and left to do at  DSpace Release 7.0 Status

  • Feedback is welcome on the list.  However, as noted, the list is not ideal at this time.  A single bulleted list (or list of checkboxes) doesn't provide enough detail on current status

  • Tim will take lead on turning this into a planning table or spreadsheet by next week. After that, will need help from Art & Andrea to fill out, etc
    • Art and Andrea both have internal docs that may be of use. Will forward to Tim
• Angular UI Team updates (via Art)
  • Merged PR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/210
  • PR needs a new review/test: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/202
    • ACTION: Tim will look at this again
  • New effort to fix PATCH / POST, etc from Art. Needs review: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/211
    • 4Science has an implementation as well, but plan to refactor to adopt Art's.  

      https://github.com/4Science/dspace-angular/tree/hasselt

  • Travis Build issues in recent PRs.  However, GitHub is down during part of this meeting. Likely related to that.

• REST API Updates (from Andrea)

  • PR from Tom on Search API. https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1881/

    • ACTION: 4Science will review. Terry also offered to review / test.
  • 4Science will be doing MyDSpace development based off of this Search API work.
  • Workspace Items (Submission) work: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1889
    • Needs help in building tests
    • May not be completed in next week
    • Terry may chip in after #1881
  • Small Fix. Will be reviewed and merged: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1898
  • Tom demos his new PR on the REST Documentation: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1915
    • Everyone likes this approach
    • It's self-documenting based on the written tests
    • May be able to replace the REST Contract entirely, once this gets further along.
  • Tom's new Spring Security PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1916
    • Still a work in progress, but promising
    • Others like this approach. We should move this forward to adopt
• Next Meeting will be Thurs, Jan 18 at 15:00UTC in DSpace Meeting Room