Date

 from 14:00-15:00 UTC

Location: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/my/dspace (Meeting ID: 502 527 3040).

Agenda

Attendees

Current Work

(blue star) = Highest Priority tasks (please prioritize these reviews/tasks over others). These are tasks with lots of dependencies

(error) = review done (this week), changes were requested.

(tick) = review done, approved.

(warning) = review done, merge conflict or other minor changes requests

Tickets / PRs In Progress

  1. (Angular) Adding Accessibility via Travis CI  https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/356 (work in progress) (Lower priority)
  2. (warning) (Angular Bug) https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/368 ( Art Lowel (Atmire) )
  3. (REST Contract) Edit Homepage news: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/45 (Ben Bosman  - has outstanding questions/comments) (Lower priority)
  4. (REST) DS-4043: Revisit the security layer of the submission  (work in progress) Andrea Bollini (4Science)
  5. (REST) Pagination bug with withdrawn items: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2406 (Dimitris Pierrakos , Ben Bosman - Feedback provided)

PRs Needing Review

  1. (NEW) (REST Contract) CRUD on Collection & Community logo https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/79 (Kevin Van de Velde (Atmire)Tim Donohue , Dimitris Pierrakos
  2. (NEW) (REST Contract) CRUD on Collection Item template https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/80 (Kevin Van de Velde (Atmire), Tim Donohue , Dimitris Pierrakos
  3. (UPDATED) (REST Contract) Group and eperson management: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/41 (Tim DonohueAndrea Bollini (4Science))
  4. (REST) Issue when community has multiple dc.title values https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2486 UPDATED ((tick) Tim Donohue - feedback added, Andrea Bollini (4Science))
  5. (REST) Oai harvesting setup https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2491 (Tim Donohue - (warning) Minor improvements requested, Andrea Bollini (4Science), Paulo Graça )
  6. (REST) Spring security for createAndReturn with parent id https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2489 (Tim Donohue - (warning) Minor improvements requested, Chris Wilper
  7. (NEW) (REST) Authority control bugfixes https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2528 (Tim DonohueGiuseppe Digilio (4Science)Andrea Bollini (4Science))
  8. (REST) (Entities) CSV Import fixes: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2522 (Ben BosmanPaulo Graça)
  9. (Angular) Item-Collection Mapper:  https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/348 ( Tim Donohue - (warning) REREVIEWArt Lowel (Atmire) - provided feedback)
  10. (Angular) Shibboleth integration support: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/429  (Giuseppe Digilio (4Science) reviewed again fixed error with yarn start, Fernando FCT/FCCN, Paulo Graça)
  11. (Angular) Submission Miscellaneous fixes: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/432 ((tick)Art Lowel (Atmire), Tim Donohue -  (warning)Noted performance issues)
  12. (Angular) forceBypassCache should be removed from the RequestService: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/468 ((tick)Art Lowel (Atmire)Giuseppe Digilio (4Science))
  13. (Angular) Collection pages WIP: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/472 (Art Lowel (Atmire) - feedback provided, Tim Donohue)

PRs Merged this week!

  1. (tick) (REST Contract) Scripts & Processes endpoint: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/17
  2. (tick) (Angular) Redirecting user to same page after login https://github.com/DSpace/dspafixed error with yarn startce-angular/pull/467
  3. (tick) (REST) Endpoints to collect statistics https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2502

Blocked

  1. (Blocked PRs go here)

Delayed / Needs Discussion

  1. (REST) Scripts & Processes endpointhttps://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/17
    1. How do we move this forward? In our Jan 24 meeting, Tim noted a risk of "scope creep" with this feature suggestion. This idea has been tabled since then.
    2. In July 25 meeting, Atmire said they'd come back with notes on the proposed backend implementation.
  2. Managing Authorization info in Angular UIHow to pass Authorization rights (i.e. logged in user's access rights) from REST API to Angular?  See for example: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/393
    1. Can this be achieved via passed HAL "_links" (e.g. the existence of an "edit" link in REST response means you must have Edit rights)?
    2. In July 25 meeting, we noted this probably cannot be resolved with just one simple solution. May need to look at different options for different scenarios
      1. Also likely to need to store/cache a user's Groups in UI layer, as some areas (e.g. Administrative) require knowledge of user group membership
  3. REST API Projections: 
    1. Early work begun at https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1847.  Discussed in more detail in our Aug 22 meeting.  Overall, this approach seems like a good direction, need volunteers to move it forward.
      1. https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/issues/2 (discussion resumed by Andrea Bollini (4Science) could be relevant for the projection)
  4. Initial Performance Testing from Chris.
    1. https://cwilper.github.io/dspace-perftest/
  5. (REST Contract) Edit Homepage News: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/45
    1. Delayed until after Preview release. General agreement (in meeting on March 21, 2019) that storing HTML in metadata fields is not really ideal behavior.  Metadata (from a librarian standpoint) tends to be free of format-related markup (as that allows for easier sharing, understanding of metadata.  Currently Community & Collection homepage information is HTML-based and is stored in metadata that is appropriate for a minor subset of information (like the title) but it is better to move large/rich text to bitstreams.  
    2. Proposal here is to consider storing HTML-based markup (for Site, Community & Collection homepages) in Bitstream(s) associated with the object in question.  May allow for more CMS-lite behavior in the future
    3. Timeline for this is uncertain.  Possibly in 7 or 8. May depend on how/whether it can be scoped.
  6. Concurrency in DSpace 7 (or 8).  What do we want to do when multiple editors are editing the same object?  Needs further analysis regarding implementation details
    1. We've decided (in meeting on March 7, 2019) to use ETags to implement concurrency. REST Contract notes on ETags: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract#etags--conditional-headers
    2. ETags only update of the two fields match. If someone edits first, your edit would fail and you would get a fail response (422?)
    3. ETags seems to have broader support in other REST APIs.  Recommended also by both Art and Andrea.
  7. Improve/Re-enable End To End (e2e) Testing. Could there be opportunities to use Travis CI + Docker Compose for testing of Angular?? https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/453#issuecomment-519672141

Notes