2018-11-15 DSpace 7 Working Group Meeting

Date

15 Nov 2018 from 15:00-16:00 UTC

Location: DSpace Meeting Room

Agenda

• General development / planning updates (Tim)

  • Tentative release schedule for DSpace 7.0 (goals set by DSpace Leadership subgroup)
• Quick updates on Angular UI tickets and/or PRs (Art)
  • Discussion: when do we schedule the Angular 6 upgrade?
• Quick updates on REST API tickets and/or PRs (Andrea)
• General Discussion Topics
  • DSpace 7 installation/customization process. Documenting our plan/goal for 7.0
    • Require separate installation/setup/prerequisites for REST API (backend) and Angular UI?
    • Somehow bundle the two together (and optionally let you install each separately)?  There are options to build/bundle Angular apps via Maven (similar to the Mirage2 npm-based build process)
    • Also, how will we recommend customizing UI / themes?
• (Last 15mins) Development planning/updates in Development Planning Spreadsheet.

Attendees

• Art Lowel (Atmire)

• Andrea Bollini (4Science) 

• 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)
  
  • Tentative release schedule for DSpace 7.0 (goals set by DSpace Leadership subgroup)
• 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
    • 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
      • Art noted that Angular 7 was just released this week. However, no rush to upgrade yet, as we'll need to wait on our dependencies to update to v7 compatibility
      • However, this notes that we really should work to get to Angular 6 soon (waiting on Submission PR still, see below)
  • Tickets / PRs requiring review:
    • Several small PRs from Bram (reviewed by Art, waiting on updates)
      • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/324
      • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/322
      • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/308
    • 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
• 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:
  • 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
    • Atmire will be creating separate PRs for each Content Mgmt feature (see our spreadsheet for full list)
      • Still in the design phase
    • Atmire looking at dynamically adding HAL links (making it more configurable).
  • Tickets / PRs requiring review:
    • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2258
      
      • Needs reviewers
    • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2173 (Reviewed by Andrea, waiting on updates)
    • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2128 (Updated by Oliver, waiting for final review from Andrea?)
    • 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 29 at 15:00UTC (10:00am EST) in DSpace Meeting Room
  • NOTE: Next Thursday (Nov 22) is a holiday in USA (Thanksgiving). Tim will be on holiday from Nov 21-23, returning on Monday, Nov 26.