2019-02-21 DSpace 7 Working Group Meeting

Date

21 Feb 2019 from 15:00-16:00 UTC

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

• More connection options available at DSpace Meeting Room

Agenda

• (15 mins) Developer Stand Up - Developers give brief updates on their effort (or their team's effort).

  • Update/see "Current Work" section below based on your status. Please feel free to update prior to meeting.
  • Please highlight any new work (needing reviews/testing), any blockers (for you), and any discussion topics you may have.
• (30 mins) General Discussion Topics
  
  1. Solr upgrade effort.  When to merge?
  2. Concurrency in DSpace 7 (or 8).  What do we want to do when multiple editors are editing the same object?
     1. REST Contract notes on ETags: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract#etags--conditional-headers
     2. REST PATCH method also defines a "test" operation: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6902#section-4.6 , however we do not yet support it in the REST API
• (15 mins) Planning for next week
  
  • Assigning PRs for Review
  • Next tasks from Development Planning Spreadsheet

Attendees

• Art Lowel (Atmire)

• Andrea Bollini (4Science)

• Tim Donohue

• Lieven Droogmans

• Mark H. Wood
• Giuseppe Digilio (4Science)
• Ben Bosman
• Pascal-Nicolas Becker
• Chris Wilper
• Terrence W Brady
• Pablo Prieto
• Paulo Graça

Current Work

Tickets / PRs In Progress

1. (Angular) Submission implementation: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/279  (Giuseppe Digilio (4Science)) (Updates requested & fails manual testing)
2. (Angular) Administrative Item Edit (Art Lowel (Atmire) ) (work in progress) (Timeline: Should be ready by Feb 21)
3. (Angular) Browse by date pages (Art Lowel (Atmire) ) (work in progress)  (Timeline: Should be ready by Feb 21)
4. (Angular) Context sensitive admin menus (Art Lowel (Atmire) ) (work in progress)  (Timeline: Should be ready by Feb 28)
5. (Angular) Adding Accessibility via Travis CI  https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/356 (work in progress) (Lower priority)
6. (REST Contract) Edit Homepage news: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/45 (Ben Bosman) (Updates requested from Tim & Andrea) (Lower priority)
7. (REST) Workflow Endpoint: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2312 (Andrea Bollini (4Science) - EARLY Reviews Needed. Reviewers:  Tim Donohue , Ben Bosman Hibernate issues with integration tests.) (Timeline: Should be ready by Feb 21)
8. (REST) MyDSpace Endpoint (Andrea Bollini (4Science) - EARLY Reviews Needed. Reviewers: Ben Bosman , Tim Donohue  (IT missings) on the 4Science repo against the 2312 PR https://github.com/4Science/DSpace/pull/65 (Timeline: Should be ready by Feb 28, maybe before exact date t.b.c on 18th )
9. (REST) Updating Owning Collections: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2283 (Kevin Van de Velde (Atmire)  - changes requested. Implementation doesn't align with contract)
10. (Backend) One Webapp Backend - Initial PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2265 (Tim Donohue ) (work in progress)

PRs Needing Review

1. (REST Contract) Mapping Collection (UPDATED) https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/52 (Andrea Bollini (4Science) - approved, Ben Bosman - NEEDS re-review)
2.  (REST Contract) Group and eperson management: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/41 (Andrea Bollini (4Science) - Reviewed & added questions/feedback,  Tim Donohue - Reviewed & added questions/feedback)
3.  (REST Contract) Endpoint for EPerson profile PATCH requests: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/49 (UPDATED PR - Andrea Bollini (4Science) minor changes requested, Paulo Graça )
4.  (REST) Manage Metadata Registry: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2291 (Paulo Graça - had questions, Tim Donohue - approved, Andrea Bollini (4Science) - approved)
5.  (REST) Metadata as a Map: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2287 (Approved / ready to be merged, but related to next PR #347)
6. (Angular) Metadata as a Map: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/347 (Giuseppe Digilio (4Science)minor changes requested. Paulo Graça )
7.  (Angular) Modifying Metadata Registries: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/355 (Paulo Graça, this PR achieves the expected result but also presents some Usability issues. Tim Donohue )
8. (Angular) Browse-By links in NavBar & Pages: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/360 (Paulo Graça, Tim Donohue)
9. (Backend) Upgrading Solr Server for DSpace - Initial PR: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2058 (NEW PR - Terrence W Brady , Kim Shepherd , Art Lowel (Atmire))
   1. Might have an impact on MyDSpace PR (See "In Progress" section)?
      
      

PRs Merged this week!

1. (REST Contract) Enhance description of search endpoints https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/50
2.  (REST) Bug in Error Handling (caused by OpenSearchController): https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2343
3.  (REST) Item CRUD: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2290
4.  (Angular) Create/Edit for Communities & Collections: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/349
5.  (Angular) Delete Communities & Collections: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/350

BLOCKED

1. (REST) Item Mapper functionality: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2282
   1. Blocked by Contract #52
2. (REST) EPerson profile PATCH functionality : https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2257
   1. Blocked by Contract #49
3. (Angular) Move Item Component: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/335
   1. Blocked by DSpace PR#2283
4. (Angular) Item-Collection Mapper:  https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/348
   1. Blocked by Contract #52
   2. Blocked by DSpace PR#2282

Delayed / Needs Discussion

1. (REST) Scripts & Processes endpoint: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/pull/17
2. Discussion of deletion of EPeople for GDPR compliance (from Pascal)
   1. https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2229. NOTE: item.getSubmitter() will return null if EPerson deleted.

Notes