2018-12-05 DSpace 7 Working Group Meeting

Date

05 Dec 2018 from 15:00-16:00 UTC

• NOTE: Meeting is rescheduled for Weds because Tim Donohuehas a conflict with Thursday time.

Location: https://duraspace.zoom.us/my/dspace (Meeting ID: 502 527 3040).

• More connection options available at DSpace Meeting Room

Agenda

• (5 mins) General development / planning updates (Tim)

• (10 mins) Quick updates on Angular UI tickets and/or PRs (Art)
• (10 mins) Quick updates on REST API tickets and/or PRs (Andrea)
• (30 mins) General Discussion Topics
  • Planning for 7.0 Preview Release (end of January)
    • Development Planning Spreadsheet - What features will be included in the Preview Release.  Can we set goals/timelines for each to be achieved?
  • DSpace 7 installation/customization process. Documenting our plan/goal for 7.0
    • Updates on "One Webapp Backend" PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2265  First example of a webapp (SWORDv1) that fully integrated & configurable.
    • Also updated docs at: DSpace Backend as One Webapp
• (5 mins) Agenda items for next meeting?

Attendees

• Art Lowel (Atmire)

• Andrea Bollini (4Science) 

• Tim Donohue

• Lieven Droogmans 

• 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: 
    • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/325
  • 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
  • Tickets / PRs requiring review:
    • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/330
      
      • Tests were not triggered until she was added as a developer to dspace-angular?  Is there a setting missing?
    • Several small PRs from Bram (reviewed by Art, waiting on updates)
      
      • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/329 (needs secondary review)
      • https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/324 (needs secondary review)
    • Entities PR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/315
    • Angular 6 PR becoming a high priority: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/320
      
    • Submission/Workflow PR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/279 (Trying to complete by end of November, but cannot guarantee at this time.)
      
      • This ticket is also waiting on Tests/Specs to be implemented
• 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:
    • Lots of tickets open and waiting for final reviews
    • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2173 (Recent updates, waiting for rereview)
    • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2129 (Recent updates, some more feedback to take into account. Nearly ready to go.)
    • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2128 (Approved by Tim. Needs re-review from Andrea Bollini (4Science) )
    • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2257 (New PR, needs initial review)
    • https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2253 (New, small PR. Needs quick review)
    • Contract updates regarding Curation Tasks (from Ben): https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/17
• DSpace 7 installation/customization process. 
  • Updated PR could use more eyes: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2265
  • See also early docs at: DSpace Backend as One Webapp
• Development planning/updates in Development Planning Spreadsheet.  (Did not touch on today)
• The Next Meeting will be Thursday, Dec 13 at 15:00UTC (10:00am EST) in DSpace Meeting Room
  • Main agenda item will be to discuss planning for 7.0 "Preview Release" in January.  Which features listed on Planning Spreadsheet will be included?  What are the timelines for their development.
  • NOTE: Tim has a conflict on Dec 6.  Meeting moved to Wednesday morning.