Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund

The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.

Overview

DSpace Developer meetings are a time when Committers and interested Developers can discuss new software features, upcoming releases of DSpace software, and generally plan out the roadmap of DSpace. All meetings are public. We welcome anyone and everyone to attend, speak their opinions or just listen in on the discussions. Please note that we archive all discussions (see Meeting Archives), as a service for those who are unable to attend.

Meeting Schedule 

DSpace Developer meetings take place on the following schedule:

  • Every Thursday (except where noted in agendas) from 14:00-15:00 UTC (10am-11am EDT) in https://lyrasis.zoom.us/my/dspace?pwd=RTk4QUhISnhPRi9YenVrTFJKbDllQT09 (Meeting ID: 502 527 3040). 
  • All meetings are held for 1 hour. 
  • Slack is used for meeting reminders, sharing agendas and day-to-day discussions.
    • #dev:  For ongoing, day-to-day (between meetings) updates / discussions / questions.
    • #angular-ui : For DSpace (Angular) UI updates, discussions and/or questions.
    • #rest-api : For DSpace REST API updates, discussions and/or questions.

Meeting topics often include:

  • Recent updates on upcoming DSpace releases, bug fixes or features
  • Reviewing of recent reported issues/bugs/feature requests
  • Occasionally we vote or make decisions on upcoming DSpace technology plans/roadmap (see Developer Voting Procedures for more info)

If you are unable to attend a meeting, please feel free to add your own notes/comments to the meeting's wiki page.

Developers Meeting on Thurs, July 11, 2024

Time/Location

 from 14:00-15:00 UTC

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

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. 
    1. DSpace 7.6.2 release
      1. Due to be released on July 10.  Is it out the door yet, or is there more to be done?
    2. DSpace 9.0 release (tentative April 2025)
      1. 9.0 Board is created: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/31/
      2. Early ideas/brainstorms captured at DSpace Release 9.0 Status
    3. Ongoing Discussion: High CPU with DSpace 7 SSR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3110
    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

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 9.0

To be decided by DSpace Steering.  Early brainstorms at DSpace Release 9.0 Status

Goals for 8.1 / 7.6.3

Deadline is TBD for both 8.1 and 7.6.3

  • 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" 
    1. Ideally, it's best to start with a PR against "main" as that has the strictest code style rules. 
    2. 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
    3. 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?

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

Notes






Meeting Archives

Historical Notes and Transcripts from all Developers Meetings are available off of the Developer Meeting Archives page.

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