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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. We have some general Code Contribution Guidelines available, but you are also welcome to ask questions on the dspace-devel mailing list.A detailed release timeline will be posted here after the DSpace development community has an opportunity to discuss the schedule

DRAFT Release timeline (not yet discussed or approved)

DateMilestone

What it means

September 30Deadline for feature pull requestsIf you wish to contribute features to DSpace 6.0, you must submit a pull request by this date.
October 07Weekly developers' meeting devoted to review of feature pull requests for 5.0The entire hour's meeting will be used to discuss proposed features submitted by the deadline.
October 14Weekly developers' meeting devoted to review of feature pull requests for 5.0The entire hour's meeting will be used to discuss proposed features submitted by the deadline.
October 30Feature freezeDSpace 6.0 is considered feature-complete on this date.  Only bugfixes will be pulled between this date and final release.
November 4Release Candidate 1 taggedA DSpace 6.0 Release Candidate will be available for wider testing.
November 11Release Candidate 2 tagged6.0-rc2 was released to address missing optional artifacts from 6.0-rc1 (Mirage2 and LNI)
December 01-11Testathon Intensive public testing of the 6.0 Release Candidate is invited.  The Release Team will focus on getting problems resolved.
December 17Release Candidate 3 taggedAn updated DSpace 6.0 Release Candidate will be available for wider testing.
"early January" 2016DSpace 6.0 is publicly releasedDSpace 6.0 is released for download and general use.

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

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