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).
- Additional connection options (phone, etc) detailed at DSpace Meeting Room.
- To determine which time we are meeting at during a given week, please view the DSpace Public Events Calendar (iCal version). You can also subscribe to the meeting schedule via that calendar.
- Also, see the world clock to determine the meeting time where you live.
- 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
- More connection options available at DSpace Meeting Room
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)
- PRs should be created against "main" where possible. It's the most strict about code style rules. (PRs created against
- DSpace 9.0 release (tentative April 2025)
- 9.0 Board is created: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/31/
- Early ideas/brainstorms captured at DSpace Release 9.0 Status
- Ongoing Discussion: High CPU with DSpace 7 SSR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3110
- 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?)
- DSpace 7.6.2 release
- 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.
- 8.x and 7.6.x Maintenance Board - Known bugs can be found here, along with any backported bug fixes.
- Upcoming Topics: (Let us know if there are topics you want to discuss in future weeks)
- None at this time
Attendees
- Tim Donohue
- Holger Lenz
- 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
- Pierre Lasou
- Kim Shepherd
Current Work
Project Boards
- DSpace 9.0 board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/31
- DSpace 8.x and 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 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"
- Ideally, it's best to start with a PR against "main" as that has the strictest code style rules.
- 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
- 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
Release of DSpace 7.6.2
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
- Giuseppe Digilio (4Science) will find a good profiling tool to reprofile server-side rendering. 4Science volunteered to do some profiling related to https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3110 and report back.
- Kim Shepherd has created a new GitHub issue for Static Site Generation discussion: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3183
Meeting Archives
- 2024-08-22 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-08-08 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-08-01 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-07-25 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-07-18 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-07-11 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-06-27 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-06-20 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-06-13 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-05-30 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-05-23 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-05-16 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-05-09 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-05-02 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-04-25 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-04-18 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-04-11 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-04-04 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-03-28 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-03-21 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-03-07 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-02-29 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-02-22 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-02-15 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-02-08 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-02-01 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-01-25 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-01-18 DSpace Developers Meeting
- 2024-01-11 DSpace Developers Meeting
Historical Notes and Transcripts from all Developers Meetings are available off of the Developer Meeting Archives page.