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Developers Meeting on Weds, May 23, 2018
Today's Meeting Times
- DSpace Developers Meeting / Backlog Hour: 20:00 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: First Sprint is complete! For a summary see DSpace 7 Community Sprint 1. Back to regular, weekly meetings. Next Meeting is Thurs, May 23 at 14:00 UTC.
DSpace Entities Working Group: 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 June 26 at 15:00 UTC.
Discussion Topics
If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it.
(Ongoing Topic) DSpace 7 Status Updates for this week (Primarily concentrating on OR2018 preparation)
- DSpace 7 Working Group 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. The ORCID (DS-3447) work has been merged, which is great news and removes the last blocker for release.
Target release date is May 28, there are just a few PRs sitting with a 6.3 milestone, and we'd love help testing current 6.x branch, focusing on:
- Discovery (Solr) searches, including browsing, pagination, filters, special characters and very long requests
- General test of OAI-PMH (both ways)
- General test of REST API (aka Legacy REST) and REST Reports
- Flyway upgrades, fresh installs, database migrations
- ORCID authority control
- Subscriptions (with the sub-daily script)
- Statistics GeoIP (location) lookups and display
- CSV metadata exporting
- General performance (and particularly: XMLUI + items with many bitstreams)
- MathJAX rendering
- Reminder of Do we want to squeeze in a "quick fix" for 6.3? Maybe just disable search snippets on "fulltext" by default?
Tickets, Pull Requests or Email threads/discussions requiring more attention? (Please feel free to add any you wish to discuss under this topic)
JIRA tickets / PRs marked for 6.3: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3A6.3
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=2018-05-23