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title	Working Group disbanded as of June 2023 after the 7.6 release

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The DSpace 7 Working Group was disbanded at the end of June 2023 once DSpace 7 became "feature complete".

See "DSpace 7 moving into maintenance after 7.6" announcement.

All DSpace Development discussions/planning/meetings have transitions back into general DSpace Developer Meetings. Please join us in those public meetings!

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title	More Information / Background on DSpace 7

Background information on the DSpace 7 Release available at

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At Open Repositories 2017 and the 2017 North American User Group meeting, updates on DSpace 7 efforts were presented. The slides from those talks are available:

North American UG (August) update: https://goo.gl/cwKVkj
OR2017 update (July): https://www.slideshare.net/tdonohue/on-the-road-to-dspace-7-angular-ui-rest

On February 28, 2017, we held a DuraSpace Hot Topics webinar to discuss the latest activities of this Working Group, with details from both the Angular UI and REST API subteams. The slides and video of that Hot Topics webinar are available at http://duraspace.org/node/3103

We've also provided a high-level summary of current status at: DSpace 7 UI Project Plain Language Summary.

More information, including some FAQs available at DSpace Release 7.0 Status

Scope & Objectives

The goal of this working group, led by Tim Donohue, is is to create a new, single User Interface (UI) for DSpace that implements all functionality currently available in JSPUI and XMLUI. The UI will interact with DSpace core data through a completely new REST API to insure complete separation of the user layer from the data layer. This working group is split into two subteams: an Angular Subteam, led by Art Lowel (Atmire), which is concentrating on building a modern, responsive, client-side user interface using Angular and a REST API Subteam, led by Andrea Bollini (4Science), which is concentrating on building a new REST API based on state-of-art technologies, standards and best practices.

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title	DSpace 7 Development Status

Latest, high level status of DSpace 7 development is captured in our DSpace 7 Project Boards. These boards are managed in GitHub.

Implementation of the User Interface and the REST API with code delivered on GitHub along with documentation on how to use, install, and extend the interface.

User Interface: Angular 413

REST API: Java 11

Demo site: https://dspace7-demodemo7.atmiredspace.comorg/

Demo site: https://dspace7.4science.it/dspace-spring-rest/api7.dspace.org/server/

Angular UI resources

Source Code:
- https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular
Tasks / Tickets (GitHub project boards):
- https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects

Angular Subteam is facilitated by Art Lowel (Atmire)
Angular UI resources

User Interface Mockups (commentsolder/feedback welcomeoutdated)
- DSpace 7 UI Mockups

REST API resources

Source Code:
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/tree/main/dspace-angularserver-webapp
Tasks / Tickets (WaffleboardGitHub project boards):
- https://wafflegithub.iocom/orgs/DSpace/dspace-angular

REST API Subteam is facilitated by Andrea Bollini (4Science)

REST API resources

- projects
REST
Technology overview: After a technology comparison, we have decided build the new REST API using Spring MVC + Spring HATEOAS, with a primary focus on JSON HAL format.
REST Contract: This work-in-progress contract describes the REST endpoints and generally how the REST API should respond to requests
- https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract
- Mockups of the JSON HAL output are maintained in the dspace-angular project codebase at https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/tree/master/src/backend/data
Source Code:
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/tree/master/dspace-spring-rest
Tasks / Tickets (JIRA):
- We've begun creating tasks under the "REST API v7" component in JIRA
  - These tasks are also available via a Kanban board (requires being logged in to JIRA): https://jira.duraspace.org/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=33&projectKey=DS&quickFilter=70

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Training Resources

General Resources
- Videos and Webinars : Recent webinars and recorded talks.
Angular UI Resources
- DSpace 7 - Angular UI Development : Getting started with DSpace 7 UI (aka dspace-angular) and how to contribute
- DSpace 7 UI Technology Stack : Overview of technologies we are using, and links to third party resources

Contributing

Code Contributions: Follow our code contribution guidelines in our GitHub repositories
- Frontend: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- Backend: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- We also have our own DSpace 7 Working Group Processes document to provide additional details about our meeting structure, code contribution & review processes, etc.
Join one of our weekly meetings (see below). Meetings tend to be hands-on, but we welcome newcomers.
Join our Slack channel(s) (see below). We use Slack as a way to stay in touch each day (between our weekly meetings)
Developers are welcome to jump in and claim tickets for either Angular UI or REST API. We maintain a list of easier tickets specifically for new developers to learn about the contribution process (See the "good first issue" label for Angular UI or REST)
- All upcoming DSpace 7 releases have a GitHub project board detailing progress & which tickets we'd like to complete for each release: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects
OR2017 DSpace Angular Workshop : Angular UI Training Workshop resources (slides and hands-on activities) from the OR2017 conference in Brisbane, Australia.
- The beginning of this workshop was also presented as a tutorial at the 2017 North American User Group meeting (at Georgetown University). Video of that tutorial is available at http://youtube.com/watch?v=c4AJ8HeZzcw

Meeting Times & Communication Channels

Meetings: We meet every week on Thurs at 15:00UTC (11am EDT(see schedule below), using the DSpace Zoom Meeting Room (using Slack as a backchannel). Anyone is welcome to join these meetings.
- Upcoming schedule can be found on the DuraSpace DSpace Public Events Calendar (iCal , RSS Feed version)
- Meetings typically last one hour. We post a weekly reminder on our Slack channels (see below), along with a brief agenda.Meeting notes are all available below.
- Meeting Room: https://duraspacelyrasis.zoom.us/my/dspace (For telephone options, see DSpace Meeting Room)
Slack: Between meetings, we encourage usage of Slack to keep in touch and ask questions. If you have not yet joined the DSpace Slack, you may request an invite. All are welcome on Slack.
- In Slack, we primarily use two channels:
  - #dev-sprint: For ongoing, day-to-day (between meetings) updates on DSpace 7 activities
  - #angular-ui : For DSpace 7 (Angular) UI updates, discussions and/or questions.
  - #rest-api : For DSpace 7 REST API updates, discussions and/or questions.
Email: We use standard DSpace lists to communicate updates, meetings, etc. Early on, we are primarily using dspace-devel (our developers mailing list) and Slack for these communications. Once we get further along, regular updates will also be announced on dspace-community (and other lists)
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Next Meeting

Thursday, January 25 from 15Meetings are every Thursday (except where noted in agendas) from 14:00-1615:00 UTC (10am-11am ESTEDT) in https://duraspacelyrasis.zoom.us/my/dspace (DSpace Meeting Room)

Agenda:
- DSpace 7 Status page updates: DSpace Release 7.0 Status (See especially the "Current Status" section)
- Prioritize review/approval of Submission wizard work, as it's getting close to being "demo-able". Specifically, these PRs:
  - Backend config changes & REST API work: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1889 (See also documentation at Configuration changes in the submission process)
  - REST Contract changes: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/16
  - Angular UI functionality (initial PR coming soon)
- Updates on latest efforts (either Angular UI or REST API), currently with a concentration on Search Mockup development, Submission wizard development, and MyDSpace as a dashboard (backend) development.
- (Other specific topics TBD)