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.
Version 1.7.0
We invite developers to help with the next major release of DSpace, version 1.7.0.
Contributors are strongly encouraged to obtain the source code using Subversion (SVN). This is very straightforward, and we've published a guide to doing so here: ContributionGuidelines
DISCLAIMER: DSpace 1.7.0 is a scheduled, "time-based" release. In order to move more quickly towards a "2.x architecture", the DSpace Developers have decided to schedule 1.7.0 in advance and base its features on what we are able to complete within that timeframe. So, 1.7.0 will be a departure from 1.6.0 in that it may include more backend changes than user-facing features.
Organizational
Release Coordination
- TBD
Timeline and Proceeding
Proposed Release Timeline (all dates are tentative):
- August 13, 2010 : Milestone 1
- By this milestone, all major features proposed for 1.7.0 release should be in SVN (they need not be fully finished, but should be far along in their development process) and approved by the DSpace Committers Group.
- October 22, 2010 : Feature Freeze (all features must have initial documentation)
- All 1.7.0 features must be finished, committed and have initial documentation. After this date, no new features will be accepted for 1.7.0 release.
- October 29, 2010 : Documentation "Soft Freeze"
- All documentation changes need to be submitted.
- November 5, 2010 : Release Candidate 1
- November 8-12, 2010 : 1.7 Testathon Week
- December 3, 2010 : Release Candidate 2 (if necessary), or Final Release
- December 6-15, 2010 : Final Testing / Debugging (if necessary)
- December 17, 2010 : Final Release
Release Process needs to proceed according to the following Maven release process ReleaseProcedure
New Features/Changes
NOTE: The list of new 1.7.0 features has not been finalized. The feature listed below may or may not make it into the final 1.7.0 release. Features will only be included if they are ready, stable and documented before the 1.7.0 Feature Freeze date listed above.
Potential 1.7.0 New Features (very tentative):
- CGIProposal (Richard Rodgers/MIT)
- CurationTaskProposal (Richard Rodgers/MIT)
- AipBackupRestorePrototype (Tim Donohue/DuraSpace)
- SWORD Client for DSpace? (Robin Taylor)
- Rewrite of Creative Commons licensing (MIT)
Changes
See the DSpace 1.7.0 JIRA Page for a list of all currently proposed changes.