2018-12-13 DSpace 7 Working Group Meeting

Date

13 Dec 2018 from 15:00-16:00 UTC

Location: https://duraspace.zoom.us/my/dspace (Meeting ID: 502 527 3040).

• More connection options available at DSpace Meeting Room

Agenda

• (5 mins) General development / planning updates (Tim)

• (10 mins) Quick updates on Angular UI tickets and/or PRs (Art)
• (10 mins) Quick updates on REST API tickets and/or PRs (Andrea)
• (10 mins) Discussion of deletion of EPeople for GDPR compliance (from Pascal)
  • Pending merger of : https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2229. NOTE: item.getSubmitter() will return null if EPerson deleted.
• (20 mins) General Discussion Topics
  • OR2019 Presentation / Workshop planning
    • What would we like to present on DSpace 7 at OR2019?
    • Proposals are due January 9
  • Planning for 7.0 Preview Release (end of January)
    • Development Planning Spreadsheet - Last week we did the first cut of features to include in Preview.  Any updates needed here?
  • DSpace 7 installation/customization process. Documenting our plan/goal for 7.0
    • Updates on "One Webapp Backend" PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2265  First example of a webapp (SWORDv1) that fully integrated & configurable.
    • Also updated docs at: DSpace Backend as One Webapp
• (5 mins) Agenda items for next meeting?

Attendees

• Art Lowel (Atmire)

• Andrea Bollini (4Science)  (unavailable)

• Tim Donohue

• Lieven Droogmans 

• Mark H. Wood
• Giuseppe Digilio (4Science) 
• Ben Bosman 
• Pascal-Nicolas Becker (unavailable)

Notes

(Notes below copied from last meeting. Details will be updated during this meeting.)

• General Updates (Tim): None
  
• Angular Team Updates (Art)
  • Merged PRs: 
    • In Progress tickets / PRs:
      • Lotte working on the menus (based on mockups)
        • Wiki page for side menu mockups: Menu Mockups
      • Kristoff creating & editing Communities, Collections & Items
    • Tickets / PRs requiring review:
      • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/335 (May have more updates once the REST Contract is finalized)
      • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/337 (On hold until after Preview: Restructures imports. Nice idea, but likely needs rescheduling until we can enforce or reschedule it)
      • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/330 (Waiting on Reviews)
      • Several small PRs from Bram (reviewed by Art, waiting on updates)
        
        • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/329 (needs secondary review)
        • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/324 (needs secondary review)
      • Entities PR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/315
      • Submission/Workflow PR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/279
        
        • Giuseppe says this wIll be ready in the next week or so.  Goal is still to have done in December
      • Dynamic Menus PR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/338
        • Needs early reviews/testing. Just adds initial sidebar & top menu. Not all links may work yet (will need to be wired up as components completed).  No context menu yet, but that'd be a followup
        • Should NOT have major conflicts with other major efforts (like Submission UI), as this is new code/components
  • REST Team Updates
    
    • Open PRs: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22REST+API+v7%22+sort%3Aupdated-desc
    • Merged PRs:
      • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2173
    • In Progress tickets / PRs:
      • https://github.com/4Science/DSpace/pull/37 (Still waiting on Andrea to find time to create a PR from this
        
        • After that PR, we also will have a MyDSpace PR to complete the REST API side of Submission & Workflow
    • Tickets / PRs requiring review:
      • Lots of tickets open and waiting for final reviews
        
        • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2129 (More feedback to take into account. Nearly ready to go.)
        • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2128 (Approved by Tim & Ben.  Andrea Bollini (4Science) needs to do a final review?)
        • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2257 (Feedback given by Andrea.  Needs updates from PR creator)
        • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2253 (needs secondary review & merge)
      • Contract Tickets needs finalization:
        • https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/33 (Needs updates as the concept of "owningCommunity" has no meaning for Communities/Collections)
          
          • See also this comment: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2277/files#diff-601b55536dca517a800fcafc9026a3ebR70
        • https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/34 (Needs examples from REST Contract or Integration Tests. Ben is unclear of request from Andrea Bollini (4Science) )
        • https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/35 (Comments need clarification.Ben is unclear of request from Andrea Bollini (4Science) )
        • https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/17 (Needs final comments, however this is scheduled for BETA.  So, not as high priority)
      • Metadata Registry (8.1) - Needs Reviews
        
        • JIRA: Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.
        • Contract: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/38
        • REST: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2291
      • Administrative Edit Item (metadata, bitstreams, assign roles) (7.13) - Needs Reviews
        
        • JIRA: Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.
          
        • Contract: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/37
          
        • REST: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2290
        • Tim asked about whether Admins should be able to create Items directly (bypassing workflow) via POST requests?
          • Others note this seems to already be possible in the Java API (via bulk CSV import?)
          • However, all agree that it's not a high priority
          • If this turns out to be complicated, we should drop POST from this endpoint.  If it's easy enough, we can implement, but it should be restricted to Admins
          • Also POST needs to somehow take in the Collection, as you cannot create an Item without a Collection
  • Discussion of EPerson Deletion (from Pascal-Nicolas Becker )
    
    • Ticket:  Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.
    • PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2229
    • Some disagreement over whether the approach of "null" EPersons is the proper one, or if it will turn into requiring more code than a "ghost user" would.
    • ALL will add comments/thoughts to DS-4036 so we can finalize a decision on whether "null" EPersons are OK or not.
  • OR2019 DSpace 7 Presentations
    • At OR2018 we had
      
      • Developer Workshop on DSpace 7 Angular UI development
      • Developer Workshop on DSpace 7 REST API
      • DSpace 7 Presentation (From Tim) with updates / demo of DSpace 7
    • We want to have a much larger presence at OR2019, preferably with more people giving presentations on different aspects of DSpace 7
    • Possible OR2019 Workshops
      • A General Workshop (for Users – Repo Mgrs and Developers) on Upgrading to DSpace 7 and customizing/configuring for local usage.  (Possible Presenters: Tim Donohue?, Art Lowel?, Andrea Bollini?, others?)
        • 20% of content from OR2018 DSpace 7 Angular workshop (how to customize UI with local theme)
        • 20% of content from OR2018 DSpace 7 REST API workshop (quick overview of REST API, show it's browseable...no deep dive though)
        • 60% would be new content, aimed towards users upgrading. What is new in DSpace 7?  (Configurable Entities, new Submission/Workflow, etc)  How do I upgrade?  How do I add my local branding (to UI)?
      • DSpace + Docker Workshop. How to demo/play/develop with DSpace in Docker (both DSpace 6 and 7). (Presenters: Terry Brady & Pascal Becker)
        
        • Ideally this would not conflict with main DSpace 7 workshop, or we'd find a way to tailor each to different audiences.
    • Possible OR2019 Talks
      • General "Introducing DSpace 7" talk.  What's in DSpace 7? Higher level overview, flashy demo, references to other "deep dive" talks.  (Possible Presenters:  Tim Donohue? Others?)
      • DSpace 7 - The Power of Configurable Entities.  Overview of new feature, how to configure & customize your DSpace via Entities  (Possible Presenters: Lieven Droogmans)
      • DSpace 7 - Enhanced Submission & Workflow.  Overview of new features & deeper dive on configuring/customizing/using (Possible Presenters: Andrea Bollini? Others at 4Science?)
    • NEXT WEEK: Will discuss possible OR2019 workshops/talks in more detail and start to finalize.
  • (Did not discuss) DSpace 7 installation/customization process. 
    • Updated PR could use more eyes: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2265
    • See also early docs at: DSpace Backend as One Webapp
  • Development planning/updates in Development Planning Spreadsheet.
    • Attempted to set dates on all tasks scheduled for "Preview"
    • Tim updated the first column based on input from Andrea Bollini (4Science) (via email).  A few now say "BETA (was Preview)" – these are tasks assigned to 4Science that Andrea feels won't be done in time for Preview.  If we feel any must be in Preview release, we will need to reassign.
    • Tim to email Andrea Bollini (4Science)about adding dates to 4Science tasks scheduled for Preview release
  • The Next Meeting will be Weds, December 19 at 16:00UTC (11:00am EST) in DSpace Meeting Room
    • NOTE: This meeting is rescheduled for Weds and is one hour later than usual
  • Upcoming Vacations/Holidays
    • Tim Donohue is out of the office from December 20 through January 2.  Returning to office on January 3.