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• The history of DSpace "2.0" has gone through many different lists of proposed features over the past 8 years:
  • Discussion of "2.0" first began in 2004, with Robert Tansley's DSpace 2.0 Original Proposal
  • A reworking of the "2.0" concept happened in 2006, during a DSpace Architectural Review.
  • A further reworking of the "2.0" concept occurred in 2008-2009 when a prototype version of DSpace 2.0 was built and demoed at Open Repositories 2009.
• As detailed in the 2.0 history above, much of the planning around a "2.0" is now many years old. Although there are many good ideas that continue to be added to the DSpace platform, some of the code and concepts are becoming rapidly out-dated.
• "2.0" has always been talked about as a "revolutionary" change to the DSpace software platform. In reality, we've found that many of these changes platform improvements have been incremental in nature and have evolved been included over many releases (for example, nearly every major release in recent years has included some code/ideas concepts from the 2009 DSpace 2.0 Prototype).
• Because the "2.0" release has a perception of being "revolutionary" in nature, it would be difficult to ever fully meet the expectations/assumptions that have built up around this release over time.
• We all feel that the DSpace Community's immediate needs are better met by incremental changes (over several releases) than by revolutionary changes (over a single release). We feel that incremental changes provide an easier upgrade path between new current and future releases of DSpace.

For the reasons stated above, the DSpace Committers and Community Advisory Team have decided that the next major release should be named "3.0" rather than "2.0".

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