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.
Meeting Schedule and Attendance
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.
DSpace Developer meetings take place on the following schedule:
- Every Wednesday, alternating between 15:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC (every other week) in #duraspace IRC channel or in #dev-mtg Slack channel (these channels sync all discussions)
- To determine which time we are meeting at during a given week, please view the DuraSpace Public Events Calendar (iCal, RSS Feed)
- Also, see the world clock (for 15:00 UTC or 20:00 UTC) to determine the meeting time where you live. If you are unsure how to connect to IRC, see our list of IRC Resources & Clients
- All meetings are held for 1 hour (although, admittedly, discussion sometimes extends beyond that)
You can also subscribe to the meeting schedule via the DuraSpace Public Events Calendar (iCal, RSS Feed).
Meeting topics often include:
- Recent updates on upcoming DSpace releases, bug fixes or features
- Reviewing of recent reported issues/bugs/feature requests (see JIRA Cleanup Sessions for more info)
- 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 Weds, April 18, 2018
Today's Meeting Times
- DSpace Developers Meeting / Backlog Hour: 15:00 UTC in #duraspace IRC or #dev-mtg Slack channel (these two channels sync all conversations)
- Please note that all meetings are publicly logged
Agenda
Quick Reminders
Friendly reminders of upcoming meetings, discussions etc
- DSpace 7 Working Group (2016-2023): Next meeting is April 19 at 14:00 UTC in DSpace Meeting Room. See wiki page for meeting details and past meeting notes.
DSpace Entities Working Group (2017-18): Next meeting is TBD. See wiki page for meeting details and past meeting notes.
- DSpace Developer Show and Tell Meetings: Next Show & Tell will be May 15 at 15:00 UTC.
- Video from yesterday's IDE Showcase available at Dev Show and Tell - IDE Showcase - Apr 17, 2018 - 1500UTC
Discussion Topics
If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it.
Note: Tim will be unavailable for next week's meeting (April 25 at 20UTC).
- DSpace 7 Community Sprints : First sprint will be two weeks, May 7-18. Signup if interested
- Sprint goals documented at DSpace 7 Community Sprint 1
Updates from the DuraSpace Member Summit
- Three DSpace breakouts at Summit: (1) minor updates to Governance Model, (2) Discussions of Entities WG output & Steering Group Recommendation, (3) Getting more contributions / feedback on Community Sprints
- Notes on all breakouts at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aeSCtzCBpYb2FDXLXtGUldYMUAyolUoLKSFp8M8Xjgg/edit#heading=h.qd014ya9jq8o
- Also a public google doc of notes on everything that went on at Summit (not just DSpace specific): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1deLwkIVBljJMFfXjreNlqxx8_BCmd836zCAf-ofvMMA/edit#heading=h.o39hgcjhwar3
- Summit attendees tend to be Library directors, Library IT directors, other managers
- Key highlights for DSpace developers
- DSpace Entities
- DSpace Steering Group publicized a new statement on their proposal for moving forward with DSpace Entities effort: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T1gkosr5u0JqISV4DL0HSlAEH6QhPpCLnKggx-pq6hc/edit
- Proposal is to move forward with option #3, but turn it into an open, community developed project (similar to DSpace 7 WG efforts currently)
- Summit attendees are in favor of adding new Entities to DSpace 7, but resources are the main question.
- Summit attendees proposed developing a small MVP (minimum viable product) to make this more tangible and perhaps help garner more support (via funding or resources).
- Key question now is finding resources and/or scoping tightly for DSpace 7.
- Sprint details were enhanced/improved based on feedback from Summit attendees
- DSpace Entities
- Three DSpace breakouts at Summit: (1) minor updates to Governance Model, (2) Discussions of Entities WG output & Steering Group Recommendation, (3) Getting more contributions / feedback on Community Sprints
(Ongoing Topic) DSpace 7 Status Updates for this week (no major updates)
- DSpace 7 Working Group (2016-2023) is currently concentrating on building out search, submission, authentication and MyDSpace functionality. 4Science submission/workflow UI (see video, slides) to be submitted as series of PRs in coming weeks.
- DSpace 7 Dev Status spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18brPF7cZy_UKyj97Ta44UJg5Z8OwJGi7PLoPJVz-g3g/edit#gid=0
(Ongoing Topic) DSpace 6.x Status Updates for this week
DSpace 6.3 Release Planning is ongoing. Thanks to those who have been helping out with tests and reviews over the last week.
As we approach the proposed deadline of May 1, more open PRs will be shifted to 6.4 as we don't have enough resource to get through them all. By April 25th, if we can get to a 'soft freeze' on 6.x merges, we can start testing a 6.3 release more thoroughly. More info at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/dspace-devel/RbHhnhaFOto
Tickets, Pull Requests or Email threads/discussions requiring more attention? (Please feel free to add any you wish to discuss under this topic)
- ORCID support broken:
- DSpace 6 performance issues with items containing a lot of bitstreams? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/dspace-tech/VIofW7EwEXY
Tabled Topics
These topics are ones we've touched on in the past and likely need to revisit (with other interested parties). If a topic below is of interest to you, say something and we'll promote it to an agenda topic!
- Management of database connections for DSpace going forward (7.0 and beyond). What behavior is ideal? Also see notes at DSpace Database Access
- In DSpace 5, each "Context" established a new DB connection. Context then committed or aborted the connection after it was done (based on results of that request). Context could also be shared between methods if a single transaction needed to perform actions across multiple methods.
- In DSpace 6, Hibernate manages the DB connection pool. Each thread grabs a Connection from the pool. This means two Context objects could use the same Connection (if they are in the same thread). In other words, code can no longer assume each
new Context()
is treated as a new database transaction.- Should we be making use of
SessionFactory.openSession()
for READ-ONLY Contexts (or any change of Context state) to ensure we are creating a new Connection (and not simply modifying the state of an existing one)? Currently we always useSessionFactory.getCurrentSession()
in HibernateDBConnection, which doesn't guarantee a new connection: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/dspace-6_x/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/core/HibernateDBConnection.java
- Should we be making use of
Ticket Summaries
Help us test / code review! These are tickets needing code review/testing and flagged for a future release (ordered by release & priority)
Newly created tickets this week:
Old, unresolved tickets with activity this week:
Tickets resolved this week:
Tickets requiring review. This is the JIRA Backlog of "Received" tickets:
Meeting Notes
Meeting Transcript
IRC Transcript is available at - http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2018-04-18
Meeting Archives
Notes and Transcripts from all recent Developers Meetings are available off of the Developer Meeting Archives page.