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All Release Team membership information is tentative, as of July 8, 2013. Please feel free to volunteer if you are interested!

Timeline and Processing

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Your contributions are welcome now!  Code and documentation need not be finished, so long as it is working and we can all see what it is for.  Time is set aside for fixing, polishing, and integration.

DateMilestoneWhat it means
October 07Deadline for feature pull requestsIf you wish to contribute features to DSpace 4.0, you must submit a pull request by this date.
October 09Weekly developers' meeting devoted to review of feature pull requests for 4.0The entire hour's meeting will be used to discuss proposed features submitted by the deadline.
October 16Weekly developers' meeting devoted to review of feature pull requests for 4.0The entire hour's meeting will be used to discuss proposed features submitted by the deadline.
October 21Feature freezeDSpace 4.0 is considered feature-complete on this date.  Only bugfixes will be pulled between this date and final release.
October 31Release Candidate 1 taggedA DSpace 4.0 Release Candidate will be available for wider testing.
November 04-15TestathonIntensive public testing of the RC is invited.  The Release Team will focus on getting problems resolved.
November 21Release Candidate 2 taggedAn updated DSpace 4.0 Release Candidate will be available for wider testing.
December 04DSpace 4.0 release taggedDSpace 4.0 is release for general use.

 

Release Process needs to proceed according to the following Maven release process: Release Procedure

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