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• August 13, 2010 : Milestone 1 - "Feature Decision Day"
  • By this milestone, all major features or major architectural changes for 1.7.0 release should be approved by the DSpace Committers Group and be somewhere in SVN (they need not be fully finished, but should be moving along in their development process).
• October 22, 2010 : Feature Freeze (all features must have initial documentation to be accepted)
  • All 1.7.0 features (major and minor) must be finished, committed to Trunk and have initial documentation. After this date, no new features will be accepted for the 1.7.0 release. Any features which are not finished or ready will need to be scheduled for the next DSpace release.
  • Modules which do not reside in Trunk (e.g. dspace-services) should also undergo a Feature Freeze on this date, so that we can work to stabilize all code used by out-of-the-box DSpace.
• October 29, 2010 : Final Documentation "Due Date"
  • All documentation changes need to be submitted, so that they can be cleaned & packaged up in preparation for RC1. This includes Upgrade Documentation, Release Notes, etc.
    • Obviously, if errors are found in docs, they can be changed during testing process, etc. But, the goal here is to attempt to have as close to a final version of the Documentation as possible, in preparation for the RC1 release.
• November 5, 2010 : Release Candidate 1
• November 8-12, 2010 : 1.7 Testathon Week
• December 3, 2010 : Release Candidate 2 (if necessary), or Final Release
• December 6-15, 2010 : Final Testing / Bug Fixing (if necessary)
• December 17, 2010 : Final Release

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