The USA/Canada began Daylight Saving Time (DST) on March 9. However, Europe doesn't begin DST until March 30. Until all countries have begun DST, our meeting time will remain at 15:00UTC.
For anyone in the USA/Canada, this meeting will occur one hour later for the next few weeks. Our upcoming meeting schedule looks like this:
March 13 (today) at 15:00UTC (11:00am EDT - One hour later in USA/Canada, as they both will be in Daylight Saving Time)
March 20 - No Meeting(Tim will be on vacation most of this week)
March 27 at 15:00UTC (11:00am EDT - Still one hour later in USA/Canada)
April 3 at 14:00UTC (10:00am EDT). As of April, all countries will be in DST, so the meeting will move back to its normal time of 10:00am ET.
New Feature Development Deadlines
Feature PR Creation Deadline: Friday, February 21, 2025
Feature PR Review/Test Deadline: Friday, March 14
Feature PR Merge Deadline: Friday, March 28
9.0 Release Candidate: Friday, April 4
9.0 Testathon: April 7-18 (two weeks)
9.0 Translation updates: April 7-18 (during Testathon)
Bug Fix Deadlines
Bug Fix PR Creation Deadline: Friday, May 2
Bug Fix PR Merge Deadline: Friday, May 16
Documentation & Release Week: May 19-23
9.0 Release Announced: Monday, May 26, 2025
Agenda
Discussion Topics - If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it.
No meeting next week on March 20. Tim will be out of the office from March 19-23, returning on the 24th.
(Time permitting) Migration to NX & refactor into libraries: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/4019 (This may be delayed to immediately post-9.0 if we don't have time to give it a thorough test/review)
Discussion/proposal around refactoring and simplifying Live Import and External Data frameworks: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/9758 (nothing concrete yet but would be great to get thoughts added to this issue and maybe find some collaborators)
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")
Deadline is TBD for both 8.2 and 7.6.4. Bug fix releases do not have fixed/scheduled deadlines.Instead, the developer team will determine when to create a release based on the significance of the issues to solve. (e.g. If major issues are fixed, then a bug fix release will occur more rapidly. If minor issues are found, then a bug fix release may be delayed until sufficient fixes have been made to warrant a release)
Bug/security fixes only. These minor releases will not include any new features.
New "themeable components" (for dspace-angular) are allowed in bug fix releases, provided that they don't significantly modify component behavior or similar.
Accessibility fixes are also allowed in bug fix releases, provided they don't significantly modify component behavior or similar.
Bug fix PRsshould be created against "main" branch where possible. The "main" branch has the most strict code style rules. (i.e. PRs created against dspace-7_x are becoming more difficult to port forward.)
Per our support policy, bug fixes are only guaranteed to be ported back to 8.x. That said, where possible, we'll try to backport bug fixes (especially significant ones) to 7.6.x.
Keep in mind, if a specific bug fix is important to you in 7.6.x, then it is best to create two PRs (one for main and one for "dspace-7_x"). If you are able to provide a backport version of the PR, then we will merge it alongside the "main" branch version.
NOTE: In many scenarios, a backport to "dspace-8_x" should be possible to automate using the "port to [branch]" labels & the "Port merged Pull Request" GitHub Action
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?
Meeting time will remain at 15:00UTC until all countries have entered Daylight Savings Time
No meeting next week: it's imperative that developers and reviewers keep on top of things
DSpace & DSpace-CRIS Merger
No updates at this point; the planning groups have started their work
9.0 Release
Deadline tomorrow: Feature PR and test deadline; this is a deadline for reviewers; please do at least a basic review/basic test until tomorrow, so that developers have enough time to incorporate feedback
PRs that haven't gotten a review yet need to get a review before end of day tomorrow (Friday)
Tim is leaning to wait until right after 9.0 until all the other features are taking care of; this affects a lot of code, we need to make sure we understand this well enough
Because these changes will affect all the backporting we have to do in future releases; automatic backports will fail
Concern: these are going to be difficult, complex upgrades for sites with customization, as they touch a lot of code
Several committers expressed hesitancy to backport this to DSpace 8; might better to think of ways to make the backport easier for us, since main branch has converged quite a bit from DSpace 8
Could start development on 8 and forward port it to main
If you have any ideas how to improve porting between the two branches, please let Tim know
Board Review
PRs in "needs reviewer assigned" column will most likely get dropped - no one has volunteered to review or developer has not responded to reviews
Upgrade to Bootstrap 5: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/3506 (MERGED)