2018-11-08 DSpace 7 Working Group Meeting

Date

08 Nov 2018 from 15:00-16:00 UTC

Location: DSpace Meeting Room

Agenda

• General development / planning updates (Tim)

• Quick updates on Angular UI tickets and/or PRs (Art)
• Quick updates on REST API tickets and/or PRs (Andrea)
• (Last 15mins) Development planning/updates in Development Planning Spreadsheet.

Attendees

• Art Lowel (Atmire)

• Andrea Bollini (4Science)  (unavailable)

• Tim Donohue

• Lieven Droogmans

• Pablo Prieto

• Mark H. Wood
• Giuseppe Digilio (4Science)
• Ben Bosman

Notes

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

• General Updates (Tim)
  
• Angular Team Updates (Art)
  • Merged PRs:
    
  • In Progress tickets / PRs:
    • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/308
    • Angular 6 PR (ready for early reviews, but won't be merged until Submission UI is merged): https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/320
  • Tickets / PRs requiring review:
    • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/319 (Needs reviews)
    • Entities PR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/315 (Needs reviewers/testers)
    • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/279
      
      • This ticket is also waiting on Tests/Specs to be implemented
        • 4Science notes they can get these implemented by end of November.
        • It's possible it could be done earlier (will try for early November). But having more contributors could help here
      • When visiting /submit, even if I'm already logged in, I'm prompted to login a second time.
        • Will be fixed with X-Forwarded Header fix: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2207
      • Configuration on server side is incorrect (for second describe box). Giuseppe will fix
  • Wiki page for side menu mockups: Menu Mockups
• 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/2206
  • In Progress tickets / PRs:
    • https://github.com/4Science/DSpace/pull/37 (Moved over to DSpace/DSpace at the start of next week.)
      
      • After that, Andrea will work on MyDSpace PR. Likely in 1st half of November
    • Atmire will be creating separate PRs for each Content Mgmt feature (see our spreadsheet for full list)
      • Likely first PRs coming at beginning of November
  • Tickets / PRs requiring review:
    • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2173 (Andrea will review & merge)
    • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2128 (Andrea to ask for one more test, then Tim can review)
    • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2207 (Has an update from Tom. Tim will review)
    • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2129 (Needs updates from Mark)
    • Tickets to update our DSpace Java dependencies.  Tim & Mark W have started working in this area, and this is important for DSpace 7 as some dependencies are very outdated or even EOL
      
      • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2244 (Update to Commons Config v2 – important for better Spring integration)
      • Also a Solr upgrade in the works: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2058
      • And a log4j upgrade in works: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2241
• Development planning/updates in Development Planning Spreadsheet.
• The Next Meeting will be Thursday, Nov 15 at 15:00UTC (10:00am EST) in DSpace Meeting Room