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Version 6.0

DSpace 6.0 is under active development, and is tentatively scheduled to be released in late 2015 or early 2016.

 

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Wishlist for DSpace 6.0

The following is an (unordered) list of changes / new features that we'd like to see added to DSpace 6.0. If you have additional features to add, please feel free. We also NEED volunteers to make these features happen, so please do volunteer if you are willing to work on a particular change!  Please note that we reserve the right to reschedule/reject any feature that may not align well with the longer term RoadMap.

FeatureNotes / TicketsPriorityVolunteer(s)
Single Search / Browse System (SOLR)
  • Lucene and old DB browse system are already deprecated. Just need removal
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High 
Single Embargo system
  • We have two ways of managing embargos, when we only need one
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Medium 
Single built-in Statistical Engine (SOLR Statistics)Medium 
Refactor DSpace API to use DAOs / HibernateMedium/HighKevin Van de Velde (Atmire)
DSpace needs local object identifiers Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration. MediumMark H. Wood
Enhance DSpace testing framework
(for integration / acceptance testing)

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Medium 
Enhanced Solr Statistical ReportsMedium 

Pull Requests to review for possible inclusion

 

New features in DSpace 6.0

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New Features in 6.0

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General Improvements in 6.0

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Bug Fixes in 6.0

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Organizational Details

Release Coordination

Instead of a single "Release Coordinator", the DSpace 6.0 release will be managed by a "Release Team".

Release Team Leader

  • TBA

Release Team Members

  • TBA

Please volunteer (by emailing Tim Donohue), if you are interested in joining the team!

Timeline and Processing

Your contributions are welcome now! Code and documentation need not be finished, so long as it is working and we can all see what it is for. Time is set aside for fixing, polishing, and integration. We have some general Code Contribution Guidelines available, but you are also welcome to ask questions on the dspace-devel mailing list.

A detailed release timeline will be posted here after the DSpace development community has an opportunity to discuss the schedule.

Release Process needs to proceed according to the following Maven release process: Release Procedure

 

 

 

 



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