No meeting on Thursday, July 4 because of the USA Fourth of July holiday. Tim Donohue will be out of the office from July 4-8, returning on Tuesday, July 9.
Agenda
Discussion Topics - If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it.
DSpace 7.6.2 release
Congratulations to all on the 7.6.2 bug-fix release!
Retrospective: Any thoughts to share on the process of this release?
Managing Bug-Fixes to both 7.6.x and 8.x
PRs should be created against "main" where possible. It's the most strict about code style rules. (PRs created against dspace-7_x are becoming more difficult to port forward.)
Bug fixes are only guaranteed to be ported back to 8.x (per our support policy). Where possible we'll backport bug fixes to 7.6.x. But, if that 7.6.x backport is important to you, then please create two PRs (one for main and one for 7.x)
Related to performance and SSR: Has anyone looked into SSG / prerender to let us create static pages/resources/app for delivery at least for some routes like DSO object pages? I just saw this and before I investigate more, wanted to raise it here and see if there are any hard blockers to us using it with dspace-angular: https://angular.dev/guide/prerendering - Kim.
(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.
9.0 Project Board- Assign new PRs to volunteers to code review and/or test.
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")
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 will need to be ported to "main", "dspace-8_x" and "dspace-7_x"
Ideally, it's best to start with a PR against "main" as that has the strictest code style rules.
Backporting to "dspace-7_x" may be trickier for some bug fixes (and require a manual port), as there are major code style changes between 7.x and 8.x
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?
DSpace 7.6.2 was released on Tuesday, July 9, 2024. Tim Donohue thanked all committers for their work and their contributions towards version 7.6.2.
Discussed management of bug-fixes to both 7.6.x and 8.x
We are now maintaining three branches on GitHub (9.0, 8.x, 7.x)
Pull requests should be created against the main branch whenever possible
Per the support policy, bug-fixes are backported to the most recent major release only (in this case, version 8.0, see DSpace Software Support Policy); therefore bug-fixes will be backported to 7.6.x only if possible; for work on important bug-fixes that will be backported to 7.6.x, everyone is asked to create two pull requests: one for the 7.x branch and one for main
Tim will update the pull request template to ensure this rule is noted there. (DONE - for both DSpace and dspace-angular)
Discussed planning and ideas for work on version 9.0
Tim reminded the group that we are collecting ideas for the early discussion of what to prioritize for 9.0
Anyone is welcome to add ideas to the status board page on the wiki and to capture things we know we need to solve (DSpace Release 9.0 Status)
Alternatively, ideas can be shared via direct messages to Tim Donohue or Holger Lenz, in the developer meetings, or as discussion items on GitHub
Tim and Holger will be part of a smaller working group consisting of steering members to identify feature priorities for DSpace 9.0
Discussed the possible impact of SSR (Server Side Rendering) on performance
Kim Shepherd raised the idea of prerendering pages to improve performance issues (https://angular.dev/guide/prerendering); caching high traffic repository sites could be helpful in improving performance