Timetable - moving to a predictable release schedule
At the March, 2014 DuraSpace Sponsor Summit in Washington, DC, VIVO sponsors in attendance expressed approval for moving to a regular release schedule as a means of bringing bug fixes and new features into production in a more predictable timeframe. Early summer and late fall have been selected as release dates to precede summer vacation and winter break periods, when key developers and testers may be unavailable.
The timetable for VIVO 1.7 has been adjusted to fit this paradigm only recently and the release will therefore be modest in scope, focusing primarily on improvements and bug fixes to features introduced in VIVO 1.6 and 1.6.1, as well as a new integration with the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) application programming interface that will allow researchers to create and/or confirm ORCID iDs from within VIVO (see VIVO-ORCID Integration).
What's included?
Documentation for the release is being developed on a different wiki to avoid confusion with current installation and implementation functionality, but will be moved to this space at the time of the release.
Current tasks and progress may be followed at https://jira.duraspace.org, where login credentials are the same as for this wiki – comments and offers for help in testing and documentation are always welcome. To see the highest-ranked issues in the release, click on the word Blocker.
Where did these issues come from, and who decided the priority?
Issues are created as the development team is made aware of them – often through questions raised on the mailing list, or discussions on the weekly development and implementation calls.