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.
DSpace Committers Group
DSpace Committers have autonomous control over the code and are also the primary support team for DSpace. The primary responsibilities of Committers are:
- Maintain the codebase; Committers are the only individuals who can actively change/commit to the codebase
- Review all code contributions/changes to ensure stability, etc
- Merge/accept community code contributions
- Help to resolve bugs or security issues within codebase
- Help to provide ongoing support to community developers and users (via IRC, mailing lists, etc.)
- Perform and manage new releases based on the roadmap.
Anyone may be nominated as a Committer by anyone else. Typically, nominations are made by existing Committers on the basis of sustained contribution to DSpace that indicates an ability to fulfill Committer responsibilities. Examples of such contribution are participation in discussions on the DSpace mailing lists, IRC etc, participation in developer meetings, reporting bugs, help with testing, and contribution of code via pull requests. Only existing Committers may vote to add a nominated person to the Committers group.
Committers
The following individuals are current Committers for DSpace open source software:
- Pascal-Nicolas BECKER - Technische Universität Berlin / The Library Code
- Andrea BOLLINI - CINECA
- Ben BOSMAN - @MIRE
- Terry BRADY - Georgetown University
- Peter DIETZ - Longsight
- Mark DIGGORY - @MIRE
- Tim DONOHUE - DuraSpace (Project Tech Lead)
- Richard JONES - Cottage Labs
- Claudia JÜRGEN - University Library of Dortmund
- Bram LUYTEN - @MIRE
- Ivan MASÁR (aka helix84)
- João MELO - Lyncode
- Luigi Andrea PASCARELLI - CINECA
- Hardy POTTINGER - University of Missouri Library Systems
- Richard RODGERS - MIT Libraries
- Andrea SCHWEER - University of Waikato ITS
- Kim SHEPHERD - University of Auckland Library
- Kostas STAMATIS - The National Documentation Centre (EKT)
- Keiji SUZUKI
- Robin TAYLOR - University of Edinburgh
- Jeffrey TRIMBLE - Youngstown State University
- Kevin VAN DE VELDE - @MIRE
- Mark WOOD - Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Emeritus Committers
Emeritus Committers are those who, for one reason or another, are no longer able to contribute code or time to DSpace on a regular basis. They are still members of the Committers Group, but are currently acting in an advisory role within the DSpace development community. As such, while Emeritus Committers may participate in active votes, their votes are considered advisory in nature.
We wish to recognize the contributions each of these individuals has made to DSpace software over the years. Their code contributions and guidance have played an integral part in helping to make DSpace what it is today.
- Jim DOWNING - (previously at University of Cambridge)
- Sands FISH - Harvard (previously at MIT libraries)
- Keith GILBERTSON - Virginia Tech University Libraries
- Stuart LEWIS - University of Edinburgh (previously at University of Auckland)
- Brad MCLEAN - (previously at DuraSpace)
- Gabriela MIRCEA - University of Toronto
- Scott PHILLIPS - (previously at Texas Digital Library)
- James RUTHERFORD - (previous at HP)
- Larry STONE - Harvard University
- Robert TANSLEY - Google
- Graham TRIGGS - DuraSpace (previously at Symplectic)
- Scott YEADON - The Australian National University
- Aaron ZECKOSKI - Unicon
Committer Discussions / Meetings
As much as possible, Committers ensure that all DSpace technology decisions are transparent to the developer community. (The only exception is when security issues require us to resolve them before they are publicly reported)
- All Developer Meetings are open to anyone to attend. The meeting minutes are automatically logged and publicly available.
- Technology discussions take place in the following places:
- Weekly developer meetings
- dspace-devel Mailing List
- DSpace Issue Tracker (When discussion is related to a specific ticket. NOTE: You can subscribe to all ticket updates via the dspace-tickets mailing list.)
- GitHub (When discussion is related to a specific GitHub pull request)
- Occasionally on the Wiki itself, if a feature/change is just being proposed for early feedback.
- All technology decisions are made following our Developer Voting Procedures.