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As you can tell, several initiatives have already gotten underwaybegun. If you want to help out with one of the existing initiatives, contact the person(s) in charge or send an email to the dspace-devel listserv. If you'd like to lead a new initiative (which hasn't yet started), please announce your intentions on the dspace-devel listserv so that we can send other volunteers your way!
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To be clear, we fully expect there to be several releases of DSpace software before we are able to release a DSpace with "Fedora Inside". You will not need to install Fedora until DSpace actually is initially released with "Fedora Inside".
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In the near term, all your customizations should continue to work (or require minor updates , just as they may have when you upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6during upcoming releases). Again, we fully expect there to be several releases of DSpace software before we are able to release a DSpace with "Fedora Inside".
We currently don't know which customizations will continue to work once DSpace is packaged released with "Fedora Inside". We hope that basic user interface customizations (CSS / Javascript / etc) will work immediately. However, any customizations to the internal API or complex add-ons will likely need to be rebuilt or refactored. As we move closer towards figuring out the internal API changes required for this integration, we will be able to better answer this question. We also plan to will report which APIs will change, so that you can more easily determine whether your add-ons will require updates.
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