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1. Submission & Workflow UI / backend
2. Configurable Entities (from DSpace 7 Entities Working Group (2018-19))
3. Upgrading Solr Server for DSpace (not required for Preview, as there's no user facing features. However, the earlier we feel comfortable merging this effort the better)

Notes

• Begun Chris Wilper has begun Performance Testing of DSpace 7.  Follow along or join in at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+7+Performance+Testing

  • First Performance bug found: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2379

• Discussion Topic: Search UI Facet Issues: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/368

  • Art has seen Andrea's latest comment.  Thinks the direction sounds reasonable, but needs more analysis on the Angular side to ensure there's no side-effects

  • Art will analyze & report back on the ticket itself.  If needed, we can always re-discuss next week
• Discussion Topic: Edit Homepage News: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/45
  • High level summary:  Should we store HTML "news" sections (for Site, Community & Collection) in metadata (as they are currently)?  Or should we treat the HTML parts as HTML bitstreams?
  • Does HTML in metadata matter all that much?
    • Tim notes that it tends to be a best practice for librarians to keep formatting markup out of metadata.  It clutters the metadata and makes it harder to understand or share with others (via OAI-PMH or similar).  It also can be unclear what the markup means unless you assume it is a standard format like HTML or similar.
    • General agreement among those in attendance that HTML in metadata is not ideal. 
  • Andrea notes that some fields are metadata though. Like the Site name or Community/Collection name.  Yes, some of these fields can be treated like metadata, but other parts of homepages (HTML especially) are hard to treat as metadata.
  • Atmire (Ben & Lieven) will come back with a proposal / list of options for moving these ideas forward after the Preview Release.  
  • Currently, it's unclear if we'll solve this all in DSpace 7 or wait for 8.  But, we have a general consensus that the current solution (HTML in metadata) is problematic for the long term.
• Discussion (from Standup): How to move forward Workflow Endpoint: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2312
  • We should solve the security issues noted by Kevin now.  It's not ideal to have security issues in "master" if we already know how to solve them. 
• Upcoming schedule
  • Preview Release timeline is now first few weeks of April (reported to Steering yesterday).  We are looking pretty good for that schedule if we can get all the blue star  items reviewed by end of March (or first week of April)
• Tim is out of the office next Monday & Tuesday (March 25-26).  Will return on Weds.