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Leadership supports no longer providing dates for the release timeline. What pages need to be updated? | Dates have been changed more than 40 times; great number of institutions counting on release of DSpace 7 for their projects where the timeline is important; no precise dates but turn into a positive message Focus on astable a stable and high quality release DSpace 7 page on web site Status page on wiki, who updates? Bram to update, this group to review by 10/11/19 Section on release schedule/timeline Try to include positive messages Tim's slides from OR had lots of information about the impact and importance of this release, perhaps use some of this info in pivot message (particularly the infographics on quantity / quality of code) | |
Upcoming blog posts, messaging | Develop a communication package to the larger community about this pivot Google doc by 10/11/19, Carol DSpace 6 is a very good stable version to work with --migration procedures in place Community is supporting last 3 versions, plenty of time and support to work with past versions Older versions will continue to be supported There will be migration procedures to help DSpace 6 compatible with Java 11? | |
"Adopt a feature" idea | Susanna | NADSUG meeting–when Susanna developed and presente the "Adopt a feature" idea at the North American DSUG meeting last week: when estimates are ready perhaps it might be easier to find developers will "adopt a feature" or perhaps an institution would pay for a discreet featurethat volunteer to have it done or institutions that pay to "sponsor" a feature Feedback from DSUG was positive (easier to raise money for a specific feature than for a generic contribution to the community, as the decision makers can see where the money goes)feedback from DSUG was positive Parts of budgets have not yet been spent in 2019 Step 1, LYRASIS management question, Carol to ask Bram has had similar convos with atmire Atmire clients, if all of funds are not earmarked in last 3 months, working with existing contracts may be easier. Susanna says it's the same situation for 4Science's clients. End of year may be too soon to begin a new fundraising campaignDoes , but it does not need to be concluded by end of 2019Need , need an agreement by end of 2019, does not need to be concluded/paid Adding features to DSpace 7 requires code review, cannot promise that any feature will be implemented exactly as imagined, really selling R & D time, monthly updates/accountability to sponsor may be required, very hard as a deliverable, will depend on how complex the feature is, features are interdependent But the idea of "adopting" is a contribution-type idea to the community effort, it should not be related to any "purchase" or "delivery" concept, "Adopt" is not control over feature Community makes features available ultimately Off topic but related: Minor releases are less attractive as fundraising benefits/incentives Minor release of say DSpace 5, would LYRASIS be able to give an RSP recognition for coordinating a minor release? Finding more active committers after release of DSpace 7 |
3 endorsers! | Bram, Pascal, Susanna | 3 2 confirmed now: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Goal+2%3A+Identify+and+promote+endorsing+institutions |
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