Developers Meeting on Thurs, Apr 4, 2024

Time/Location

04 Apr 2024 from 14:00-15:00 UTC

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

• More connection options available at DSpace Meeting Room

Agenda

• Discussion Topics - If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it. 
  1. Introducing Holger , our new (part time) DSpace Program Coordinator
  2. 8.0 release topics
     
     1. Any outstanding major dependency updates?
        
        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. Replace original selector when making a component themeable: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2865
  3. Preparing for Testathon (April 8-19)
     1. Finalizing the 8.0 Release Notes.  Please ensure all features that you built have official documentation!
     2. Updating the Install / Upgrade docs.
     3. Releasing an 8.0 "Release Candidate" version of DSpace (`dspace-8.0-rc1`)
     4. Tim Donohue will be creating a new "dspace-8.0-testathon" branch in both GitHub repositories.  https://sandbox.dspace.org will be updated to use this branch.  This will allows us to continue to fix/update main branch while avoiding rebooting that sandbox site after every update.  Updates will only be released when we apply changes to that branch.
  4. 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.)
  5. DSpace 7.x Maintenance
     1. Should we backport the new /api/security/csrf  REST endpoint used by https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2886  ?   See also REST Contract: https://github.com/DSpace/RestContract/pull/259
  6. (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

• Tim Donohue 

• Art Lowel (Atmire) 

• Andrea Bollini (4Science)

• Giuseppe Digilio (4Science) 
• Paulo Graça
• Mark H. Wood 
• Grazia Quercia (4Science)
• Corrado Lombardi (4Science) 
• Julian Timal (eScire) 
• Martin Walk 
• Melissa Anez 
• Oliver Goldschmidt 
• Hrafn Malmquist 
• Pascal-Nicolas Becker 

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.

1. 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)
2. Include new features which empower users in the admin UI.  Make things easier for Admins.
3. Accepting community contributions of any 6.x features which missed 7.x
4. 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. 
5. Release Goal: May 20, 2024
6. 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.)

Try "Pull Request Trading" for a quicker review

Do you have a PR stuck in "under review" that you really want to see move forward?  Or maybe it's someone else's PR but you want to get it more attention?

See Trading reviews on Pull Requests for how to get immediate attention to that PR!

Notes