Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
Developers Meeting on Thurs, July 13, 2023
Time/Location
from 14:00-15:00 UTC
Location: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/my/dspace?pwd=RTk4QUhISnhPRi9YenVrTFJKbDllQT09 (Meeting ID: 502 527 3040). Passcode: dspace
- More connection options available at DSpace Meeting Room
Tim is out of the office from July 8-12. Will return to the office on July 13 in time for this meeting.
Agenda
- Discussion Topics - If you have a topic you'd like to have added to the agenda, please just add it.
- (30 mins) COAR Notify : https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8120
- 7.6.x release topics - bug-fixes only.
- Documented decision from last week about requiring 2 PRs for bug fixes. See "Goals for 7.6.1" section below.
- 8.0 release topics
- Any topics to discuss?
- Upcoming topic: DSpace Preservation Storage via OCFL (proposal from Lyrasis for post-8.0). Possible discussion on July 27?
- Demo Site migration to Lyrasis (https://demo7.dspace.org/ and https://api7.dspace.org/server/)
- Tim will work with Lyrasis to make this happen as soon as reasonably possible now that 7.6 is released.
- Demo site will be renamed back to "demo.dspace.org" (instead of "demo7.dspace.org"). demo7.dspace.org and api7.dspace.org will redirect to demo.dspace.org
- Old 6.x demo site: Will keep it around temporarily at "demo6.dspace.org"... likely only for 6-12 months though.
- (Other topics?)
- Board Review & assignments:
- Backlog Board - Are there any tickets here stuck in the "Triage" column? We'd like to keep this column as small as possible.
- 7.6.1 Project Board - Assign new PRs to volunteers to code review and/or test.
- 8.0 Project Board - Assign new PRs to volunteers to code review and/or test.
Attendees
- Tim Donohue
- Paulo Graça
- Mark H. Wood
- Grazia Quercia (4Science)
- Corrado Lombardi (4Science)
- Julian Timal (eScire)
- Martin Walk
- Melissa Anez
Upcoming Topics
If you have a topic for a future meeting, please add it here.
- 4Science proposed to present
- ORCID Login improvement on July 20th 2023
- Angular : library-based architecture proposal updated proposal on July 20th
Current Work
Project Boards
- DSpace 7.6.1 board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/29
- DSpace 8.0 board: https://github.com/orgs/DSpace/projects/27
To quickly find PRs assigned to you for review, visit https://github.com/pulls/review-requested (This is also available in the GitHub header under "Pull Requests → Review Requests")
Goals for 8.0
This were decided by Steering in their meeting on June 28, 2023.
- Move forward major features which missed 7.x.
- COAR Notify support (4Science & Harvard)
- OpenAIRE integration with notification broker/claim service (4Science)
- Porting "REST-Based Quality Control Reports" from old REST API to new one. (U of Laval, Canada)
- Duplicate Detection in Submission ported from DSpace-CRIS (The Library Code)
- Include new features which empower users in the admin UI. Make things easier for Admins.
- Improve documentation, training to allow for greater community contributions. (Ease setup/install/customization, etc.)
- Per DSpace 7 WG meeting on June 29, 2023, this may include dependency upgrades/maintenance (Angular, Spring, Solr, Tomcat, etc). May also include necessary code updates/refactors to ease in ongoing maintenance.
- Release Goal: April 2023
- In parallel to 8.0, proof of concepts / planning regarding modularization (e.g. 4Science angular proposal) and OCFL/preservation storage (Lyrasis proposal to be discussed in more detail).
Goals for 7.6.1
- Bug/security fixes only. Release will occur when sufficient fixes have been made to warrant a release.
- Fixes should have two Pull Requests (exceptions may be made for very small fixes)
- A PR against the "dspace-7_x" maintenance branch to apply to the next 7.6.x release.
- A PR against the "main" branch to fix this same bug for the 8.0 release.
- (NOTE: Once one PR is reviewed & approved, the other will be merged at the same time.)