Developers Meeting on Thurs, Mar 28, 2024

Time/Location

28 Mar 2024 from 15:00-16:00 UTC

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME has begun in USA. This meeting will be one hour later than normal (11:00am - 12:00pm EDT), until Europe also enters DST on March 31.

Location: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/my/dspace?pwd=RTk4QUhISnhPRi9YenVrTFJKbDllQT09 (Meeting ID: 502 527 3040). Passcode: dspace

More connection options available at DSpace Meeting Room

New Feature Development Deadlines
- Feature PR Creation Deadline: Friday, Jan 19, 2024
- Feature PR Review/Test Deadline: Friday, Feb 9
- Feature PR Merge Deadline (Feature Freeze): Friday, Feb 23
Major dependency upgrades: March 3 - March 29
- Jakarta EE support for Tomcat 10 and upgrading to Angular 17 (No new features)
Early Documentation & bug fixes: April 1-5
8.0 Release Candidate: Week of April 1-5
8.0 Testathon: April 8-19 (two weeks)
Bug Fix Deadlines
- Bug Fix PR Creation Deadline: Friday, May 3
- Bug Fix PR Merge Deadline: Friday, May 10
Final Documentation & Release Week: May 13-17
8.0 Release Announced: Monday, May 20, 2024

Agenda

Discussion Topics - If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it.
1. Next week's meeting (April 4) will shift to 14:00-15:00UTC. Europeans will be joining at the same time (as they enter DST). North Americans will join one hour earlier (back to their normal schedule prior to starting DST).
2. 8.0 release topics
  1. Testathon & Release are delayed by one week. New deadlines appear in the Release Schedule above.
  2. Concentration on major dependency updates. Including
    1. DSpace doesn't support Tomcat 10 / Jakarta EE: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9321 (Tim)
    2. Stricter ESLint configuration: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2343 (Atmire)
    3. Angular migrate to standalone components: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2750 (4Science)
    4. Angular 16 Upgrade: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2871 (4Science)
    5. https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2865
  3. Preparing Documentation for Testathon
    1. Finalizing the 8.0 Release Notes.
    2. Updating the Install / Upgrade docs.
    3. Ensure **all features** that you built have official documentation!
  4. Follow-up Discussion: Replace original selector when making a component themeable: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/2845
    1. Is this something we'd be interested in for 8.0 (perhaps after dependency updates above?) or perhaps a discussion for 9.0?
3. Ongoing Discussion: High CPU with DSpace 7 SSR: https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-tech/c/t4H3jJPq0Ck
  1. Please suggest improvements/changes on our Performance Tuning DSpace docs (or send to Tim privately)
  2. Add configuration to disable inlined CSS in SSR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2067
  3. Possibly exclude some components from SSR? E.g. DSpace-CRIS excludes the Search component from SSR as these are not necessary for SEO. (Need to verify this has no negative impacts on accessibility or similar.)
4. (Other topics?)
Board Review & assignments:
- Backlog Board - Are there any tickets here stuck in the "Triage" column? We'd like to keep this column as small as possible.
- 8.0 Project Board - Assign new PRs to volunteers to code review and/or test.
- 7.6.x Project Board - Assign new PRs to volunteers to code review and/or test.
Upcoming Topics: (Let us know if there are topics you want to discuss in future weeks)
- None at this time

Attendees

Current Work

Project Boards

DSpace 8.0 board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/27
DSpace 7.6.x board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/29

To quickly find PRs assigned to you for review, visit https://github.com/pulls/review-requested (This is also available in the GitHub header under "Pull Requests → Review Requests")

Goals for 8.0

This were decided by Steering in their meeting on June 28, 2023.

Move forward major features which missed 7.x.
1. COAR Notify support (4Science & Harvard): https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8120
  1. Development proposal page: Implementation of the COAR Notify protocol in DSpace 8
2. OpenAIRE integration with notification broker/claim service (4Science)
3. Porting "REST-Based Quality Control Reports" from old REST API to new one. (U of Laval, Canada)
4. Duplicate Detection in Submission ported from DSpace-CRIS (The Library Code)
Include new features which empower users in the admin UI. Make things easier for Admins.
Accepting community contributions of any 6.x features which missed 7.x
Improve documentation, training to allow for greater community contributions. (Ease setup/install/customization, etc.)
1. Per DSpace 7 WG meeting on June 29, 2023, this may include dependency upgrades/maintenance (Angular, Spring, Solr, Tomcat, etc). May also include necessary code updates/refactors to ease in ongoing maintenance.
Release Goal: May 20, 2024
In parallel to 8.0, proof of concepts / planning regarding modularization:
1. Angular : library-based architecture proposal (4Science)
2. DSpace Preservation-enabled Storage via OCFL (Lyrasis, post-8.0)

Goals for 7.6.2

Deadline is TBD for 7.6.2

Bug/security fixes only. Release will occur when sufficient fixes have been made to warrant a release.
- New "themeable components" (for dspace-angular) are allowed in bug fix releases, provided that they don't significantly modify component behavior or similar.
Bug fixes should have one Pull Request
1. A PR against either the "dspace-7_x" maintenance branch OR the "main" branch.
2. We will automatically generate a PR against the other branch using the "port to [branch]" labels & the "Port merged Pull Request" GitHub Action
3. (In the case of complex bug fixes, it is possible this automatic port action will fail. In that situation a manual port PR may need to be created.)

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