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Comment: Updated 6.0 timeline. It's a bit more "compressed", but seems plausible (though still subject to change)

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Instead of a single "Release Coordinator", the DSpace 6.0 release will be managed by a "Release Team".

Release Team Leader

  • TBATBD

Release Team Members

Please volunteer (by emailing Tim Donohue), if you are interested in joining the team!

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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.

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Release Timeline

Please note that the dates below are estimates of when particular activities may occur. As there are many factors involved in a major release, these are subject to change.

DateMilestone

What it means

September 30October 29Deadline for feature pull requestsIf you wish to contribute features to DSpace 6.0, you must submit a pull request by this date.
October 07November 4Weekly developers' meeting devoted to review of feature pull requests for 6.0The entire hour's meeting will be used to discuss proposed features submitted by the deadline.
October 14November 11Weekly developers' meeting devoted to review of feature pull requests for 6.0The entire hour's meeting will be used to discuss proposed features submitted by the deadline.
October 30November 20Feature freezeDSpace 6.0 is considered feature-complete on this date.  Only bugfixes will be pulled between this date and final release.
November 4November  24Release 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 0107-1118Testathon Intensive public testing of the 6.0 Release Candidate is invited.  The Release Team will focus on getting problems resolved.
December 1723Release Candidate 3 2 taggedAn updated DSpace 6.0 Release Candidate will be available for wider testing.
"early January" /February 2016DSpace 6.0 is publicly releasedDSpace 6.0 is released for download and general use.

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