DSpace Steering discussed this yesterday, and has another meeting in 2 weeks. Some early discussion about whether to potentially expand the scope of DSpace 7 efforts to include new Entities (like Authors). But, no decision has been made yet. So, we should still work under the assumption that our scope is unchanged (i.e. ONLY a new REST API & Angular UI) until we hear otherwise.
Andrea notes that he has concerns about expanding scope. These concerns can & should be expressed in future Steering Group discussions though (as 4Science will be a part of those too).
This is nearly ready to merge. Last chance to give this a quick review. The idea again is the iterate on these ideas, and improve in future PRs as needed.
4Science has a branch where they are doing their work in March
In March, working on a separate project to implement Workflow REST API in DSpace-CRIS. This work will align with the Contract as documented in PR#20 (see above)
Lieven asks if this will be one big PR – which would be hard to review
Andrea notes that no, this should be possible to contribute back as separate feature PRs. The goal would be to cleanup the work on the branch (see above) and submit several PRs that can be analyzed feature by feature.
Announce a Community sprint (1-2 weeks) on these features...likely sometime in late April? (or early May?).
Atmire & 4Science will each assign a developer to the sprint... ensures we have at least 2 developers
Try and pull in other community members for a very specific task / timeline.
ACTION: Tim will start to draft up this Community Sprint in a Google Doc. Will share next week & iterate on improving this prior to the DuraSpace Summit Mtg (April 10-11). We can hopefully announce at Summit and start to find contributors