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1. Attempt to include all (in progress) major features which missed the 7.x series of releases.  Specifically, this includes these four features: 
   1. COAR Notify support (4Science & Harvard): Implementation of the COAR Notify protocol in DSpace 8
   2. Correction service to enhance data quality via OpenAIRE Graph (4Science): https://4science.github.io/oaire-eld/ and https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/8184
   3. Porting "REST-Based Quality Control Reports" from old REST API to new one. (U of Laval, Canada): https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/7641
   4. Duplicate Detection in Submission ported from DSpace-CRIS (The Library Code): https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/1732 and https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/8415
2. Accept new features which empower users in the Admin User Interface.  In other words, any new features which make things easier for administrators would be accepted.  However, at this time, this work is unfunded and would need to be provided by volunteers.
3. Accept community contributions of any 6.x features which missed the 7.x series of releases.  At this time, this work is unfunded and would need to be provided by volunteers
4. Improve documentation, training to allow for greater community contributions. This also may include easing the setup/installation/customization or maintenance of DSpace.

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In parallel to the 8.0 release, the Developer team (via Developer Meetings) will work on some early proof of concepts which may be included in 9.0 or later.  Some of these early proof-of-concepts currently include work to modularize DSpace (e.g. DSpace 8 Angular : library-based architecture proposal) and improve the storage layer (e.g. via OCFL or similar).  To take part in these discussions, please join future Developer Meetings.

How to help

DSpace is a global collaboration and most of our activities are entirely volunteer based (including code development). 

• To help with development activities (claiming/prioritizing tickets, testing new fixes, etc) please consider joining future Developer Meetings, or getting in touch via Slack or GitHub.  We welcome anyone and everyone to contribute.  Contributions can be in writing code, reviewing others code, or even simply testing someone else's code works properly.
• To help with documentation (e.g. https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x), please create a Wiki account (email wikihelp@lyrasis.org) and get in touch with Tim Donohue (via Slack or email) to ask for edit access to the documentation.
• To help brainstorm/suggest new features, consider joining the DSpace Community Advisory Team meetings or mailing lists.  This is our interest group for repository managers and they help suggest future features to DSpace Steering and developers.
• To help others (and perhaps yourself), consider joining our Mailing Lists and Slack.  These are the primary ways that people ask questions and support one another in using DSpace
  • Additional Support options are documented on our Support page.