Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
Scope & Objectives
The goal of this technical working group is to design and implement DSpace 7 Configurable Entities, per the statement from the DSpace Steering Group regarding the DSpace 7 data model and proposal #3 of the DSpace Entities Working Group summary document. (A high level overview of "Configurable Entities" was also presented during the DSpace 7 Update at OR2018.)
This working group is expected to complete and/or scope the effort within the DSpace 7 release timeline, which will require close coordination with the DSpace 7 Working Group.
Deliverables
This working group will
- (Before end of September) Assess the early prototype of Configurable Entities and its alignment with guidelines/needs.
- (Before end of October) Define an implementation roadmap for DSpace 7 Configurable Entities (based on the assessment of early prototype)
- (Before end of November) Implement Configurable Entities, per defined roadmap (by creating a Pull Request & documentation, to be reviewed by DSpace 7 Working Group and DSpace Committers)
- Draft a post-DSpace 7 roadmap for Configurable Entities (to be reviewed by Steering and Leadership)
Once the above deliverables have been completed, this working group will merge with the DSpace 7 Working Group. At that point, the Configurable Entities feature (and any further enhancements/improvements) will be managed by the combined DSpace 7 Working Group, where it will be stewarded into DSpace 7.
Resources
- Documentation for early prototype of Configurable Entities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wEmHirFzrY3qgGtRr2YBQwGOvH1IuTVGmxDIdnqvwxM/edit
- Public commenting is turned "on", you are welcome to add inline comments/questions to this document.
Contributing
Anyone is welcome to join this working group at any time. If you plan to join/contribute to this working group, we ask that you please join Slack, as (day-to-day) work between meetings occurs via Slack.
- Join one of our weekly meetings. Meetings will be publicly announced and notes publicly posted (see below).
- Get in touch with the team via Slack. Please join the #entities-wg channel in Slack. We'd be glad to talk about other ways to contribute
Next Meeting
First meeting will be on Tues, September 25 at 14:00-15:00 UTC (10:00am-11:00am EDT) in https://duraspace.zoom.us/my/dspace (DSpace Meeting Room)
- Agenda coming soon.
- This meeting will be recorded, and video/audio made available off the meeting page.