Feature PR Creation Deadline: Friday, February 20, 2026
Feature PR Review/Test Deadline: Friday, March 13
Feature PR Merge Deadline: Friday, March 27
10.0 Release Candidate: Friday, April 3
10.0 Testathon: April 6-17 (two weeks)
10.0 Translation updates: April 6-17 (during Testathon)
Bug Fix Deadlines
Bug Fix PR Creation Deadline: Friday, May 1
Bug Fix PR Merge Deadline: Friday, May 15
Documentation & Release Week: May 18-22
10.0 Release Announced: Tuesday, May 26, 2026
There will be no meeting next week on Thursday, September 18 because Tim and Holger will be at the Lyrasis All-Staff Retreat. Our next meeting will be on Thursday, September 25.
Agenda
Discussion Topics - If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it.
How should DSpace display / not display HTML embedded in metadata fields? Currently, there's still inconsistency between how it's treated in the Submission / Workflow versus on Public pages: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/1495 (In Submission/Workflow, embedded HTML is sanitized and rendered. In public pages, it's only rendered for abstract field.)
Add your topic here or PR / issue ticket to discuss.
Board Review:
10.0 Project Board- Review PRs collaboratively or Assign new PRs to volunteers to code review and/or test.
Backlog Board- Are there any tickets here stuck in the "Triage" column? We'd like to keep this column as small as possible.
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 9.2, 8.3 and7.6.5. 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 9.x. That said, where possible, we'll try to backport bug fixes (especially significant ones) to 8. x and 7.6.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?