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Fedora is designed, built, used, and supported by the community. An easy and important way that you can contribute to the effort is by helping resolve outstanding bugs. If you have an interest in gaining a better understanding of the Fedora code base, or a specific interest in any of these bugs, please add a comment to a ticket and we can work together to move your interest forward.

Other Volunteer Opportunities

With the 5.0 release behind us, we are pushing forward with a couple of exciting initiatives.  With an eye towards our next major release,  we have scheduled a three day, face-to-face design meeting with the committers in Virginia Beach at the end of February.  On the more immediate front we are also focused in part on evolving the ecosystem tools that support integration with the new release of Fedora.  

We have built-up excellent momentum on this front.  So far the Fedora Java Client has been released (thank you Ben Pennell and UNC).  The Fedora Camel Toolbox and related projects are have been updated, are currently being tested by community members, and would expect a release in the next couple of weeks  (thank you Aaron Birkland/JHU and Peter Eichmain/UMD).  This cluster of ecosystem tools represents the lowest hanging fruit.  

Next on the list is the necessity of bringing the import/export tooling into alignment with 5.0 and providing migration tooling for upgrading from a version 4.x to 5.x repository.  Getting there will require some dedicated effort, most likely in the form of a sprint.  Would you and/or your institution be willing to commit some time toward realizing these goals?  We will need developers as well as testers to enable us to make the promise of the import, export and migration tooling a reality for Fedora 5.0.

Membership

Fedora is funded entirely through the contributions of DuraSpace members that allocate their annual funding to Fedora. We will be kicking off this year's membership campaign with a goal of raising $500,000 to fund staff to work on Fedora and provide technical leadership, direct strategic planning, organize community outreach, and coordinate timely software releases. Membership also provides opportunities to participate in project governance and influence the direction of the software. If your institution is not yet a member of DuraSpace in support of Fedora, please join us today!

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