Developers Meeting on Weds, March 20, 2019

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1. (Ongoing Topic) DSpace 7 Status Updates for this week (from DSpace 7 Working Group)

   1. Configurable Entities PRs (Part 1 - Architecture, Configuration, Display, Search/Browse):

      1. REST Contract PR: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/57

      2. REST API (v7) PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2376

      3. Angular UI PR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/372

2. (Ongoing Topic) DSpace 6.x Status Updates for this week

   1. 6.4 will surely happen at some point, but no definitive plan or schedule at this time.  Please continue to help move forward / merge PRs into the dspace-6.x branch, and we can continue to monitor when a 6.4 release makes sense.
3. Upgrading Solr Server for DSpace (Mark H. Wood )
   
   1. PR https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2058
   2. Docker configuration for external Solr
      1. https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/DSpace/commit/7115173d61776dd2455690518f5c9809cd0f28d4
         
         1. The Dockerfile creates a new solr instance with 4 cores.  It then overlays the schema and config changes in PR 2058.
         2. I attempted to create my branch so that I could create a PR back to Mark's branch, but some other changes from master seem to be showing up if I create a PR.
      2. This will need a small change to our docker compose files to invoke the external solr service. https://github.com/DSpace-Labs/DSpace-Docker-Images/pull/79
4. DSpace Backend as One Webapp (Tim Donohue )
   
   1. PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2265 (PR is finalized & ready for review)
   2. A follow-up PR will rename the "dspace-spring-rest" module to "dspace-server", and update all URL configurations (e.g. "dspace.server.url" will replace "dspace.url", "dspace.restUrl", "dspace.baseUrl", etc)
5. DSpace Docker and Cloud Deployment Goals (Terrence W Brady )
   

   1. Passing environment variables to Docker

      1. https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2373
      2. https://github.com/DSpace-Labs/DSpace-Docker-Images/pull/97
      3. https://github.com/DSpace-Labs/DSpace-Docker-Images/pull/98 (adds Sword overrides)

   2. Creating default AIP dataset for DSpace 7 docker load

      1. Tim shared a link to the entities WG dataset.  This dataset contains no bitstreams.  How should we handle this for the AIP's?
      2. https://github.com/DSpace-Labs/DSpace-Docker-Images/pull/95

   3. Update sequences on initialization

      1. https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2362 - update sequences port

      2. https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2361  - update sequences port

   4. Add Docker build/push to Travis
      1. This make sense to consider after 2307 is mergedWe can revisit this after Docker is more widely adopted by DSpace developers.  We can decide if travis is the right place to solve this.
      2. https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2308
6. Brainstorms / ideas (Any quick updates to report?)
   
   1. (On Hold, pending Steering/Leadership approval) Follow-up on "DSpace Top GitHub Contributors" site (Tim Donohue ): https://tdonohue.github.io/top-contributors/
   2. Bulk Operations Support Enhancements (from Mark H. Wood)
   3. Curation System Needs (from Terrence W Brady  )
7. Tickets, Pull Requests or Email threads/discussions requiring more attention? (Please feel free to add any you wish to discuss under this topic)
   1. Quick Win PRs: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+review%3Aapproved+label%3A%22quick+win%22

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