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, June 20, 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
8.0 Release Schedule
- New Feature Development Deadlines
Feature PR Creation Deadline: Friday, Jan 19, 2024
Feature PR Review/Test Deadline: Friday, Feb 9
Feature PR Merge Deadline (Feature Freeze): Friday, Feb 23
Major dependency upgrades: March 3 - March 29
Early Documentation & bug fixes: April 1-5
8.0 Release Candidate: Week of April 1-5
8.0 Testathon: April 8-19 (two weeks)
Bug Fix Deadlines
- NOTE: Because of the number of issues found in Testathon, the 8.0 release is delayed until "high priority" tickets are solved.
Bug Fix PR Creation Deadline: Friday,
May 3May 31Bug Fix PR Merge Deadline: Friday,
May 10June 14
- Final Documentation & Release Week:
May 13-17June 17-21 - 8.0 Release Announced: Monday,
May 20, 2024June 24
Agenda
- Discussion Topics - If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it.
- 8.0 Final Release
- "High Priority" tickets/PRs remaining: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/27/views/1?filterQuery=label%3A%22high+priority%22
- "Random" Submission Failures when invalid "replace" action sent via PATCH: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3050#issuecomment-2163502077
- Merger issue between the "dspace-7_x" and "main" branches : https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/9616
- Test Branch/PR for Frontend: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/3114
- Test Branch/PR for Backend: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9647
- 8.0 Code Freeze
- (NEW) Managing 7,x and 8.x maintenance:
- New labels: "affects: 7.x", "affects: 8.x", "affects: main" to label which releases(s) a bug/issue impacts.
- 7.6.x board is renamed: "DSpace 8.x and 7.6.x Maintenance"
- Ongoing Discussion: High CPU with DSpace 7 SSR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3110
- DSpace 7.x Maintenance
- PRs created to backport
/api/security/csrf
REST endpoint: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9599 and https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/3063
- PRs created to backport
- (Other topics?)
- 8.0 Final 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.
- 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
- 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 8.0 board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/27
- 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 8.0
This were decided by Steering in their meeting on June 28, 2023.
- Move forward major features which missed 7.x.
- COAR Notify support (4Science & Harvard): https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8120
- Development proposal page: Implementation of the COAR Notify protocol in DSpace 8
- OpenAIRE integration with notification broker/claim service (4Science)
- Porting "REST-Based Quality Control Reports" from old REST API to new one. (U of Laval, Canada)
- Duplicate Detection in Submission ported from DSpace-CRIS (The Library Code)
- COAR Notify support (4Science & Harvard): https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8120
- Include new features which empower users in the admin UI. Make things easier for Admins.
- Accepting community contributions of any 6.x features which missed 7.x
- Improve documentation, training to allow for greater community contributions. (Ease setup/install/customization, etc.)
- Per DSpace 7 WG meeting on June 29, 2023, this may include dependency upgrades/maintenance (Angular, Spring, Solr, Tomcat, etc). May also include necessary code updates/refactors to ease in ongoing maintenance.
- Release Goal: June 17-24, 2024
- In parallel to 8.0, proof of concepts / planning regarding modularization:
- Angular : library-based architecture proposal (4Science)
- DSpace Preservation-enabled Storage via OCFL (Lyrasis, post-8.0)
Goals for 7.6.2
Deadline is TBD for 7.6.2
- 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 should have one Pull Request
- A PR against either the "dspace-7_x" maintenance branch OR the "main" branch.
- We will automatically generate a PR against the other branch using the "port to [branch]" labels & the "Port merged Pull Request" GitHub Action
- (In the case of complex bug fixes, it is possible this automatic port action will fail. In that situation a manual port PR may need to be created.)
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
Discussed the status and progress of tickets on GitHub (Version 8.0)
- Two Pull Requests labeled "high priority" remain to be tested and merged (https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/27/views/1?filterQuery=label%3A%22high+priority%22)
Discussed the updated Release Schedule (Version 8.0)
- Once these have been accepted and merged, development will enter the code freeze phase in order to prepare for release of version 8.0
- A Release Announcement is planned for early next week (week of June 24, 2024)
- Documentation (release notes) for version 8 will be reviewed and finalized
Discussed management and maintenance of 7.x and 8.x
- Tim Donohue created new labels to mark bugs that affect only a specific release or specific branch
- The maintenance board on GitHub has been renamed to DSpace 8.x and 7.6.x Maintenance
Discussed the release and release schedule for version 7.6.2:
- There is no strict release date for 7.6.2; the release is planned for shortly after 8.0 has been released
- 7.6.2 will be released as soon as everything has been tested and the release notes have been finalized
Version 9.0 (future release) discussion:
- Tim Donohue will create a brainstorming page to collect ideas for 9.0 on the wiki; everyone is welcome to contribute thoughts and ideas to this page
- The discussion around ideas for 9.0 revolved around:
- Improving performance (high CPU usage, https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/3110)
- Entities
- Enabling entities by default in version 9.0
- How can entities be made more usable?
- Relationships and nested/hierarchical metadata
- Shall we automatically change metadata in flyway migrations?
- Entities
- If entities are enabled by default how could a migration look like? Shall we offer a script to add a field dspace.entity.type="Publication" to all items without an entity type?
- DOIs
- Changing the field a DOI is using (dc.identifier.uri vs. dc.identifier.doi)
- Changing the resolver (https://doi.org vs. http://dx.doi.org)
- Entities
Meeting Archives
- 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.