Hello all, Our first (virtual) development sprint on DSpace 7 is now complete, and I'd like to congratulate all our sprint participants and coaches on their contributions to DSpace 7! I also wanted to share a few statistics with you regarding the success of this sprint.
Sprint #1 featured eight developers and four coaches, together representing nine institutions and five different countries. *Two sprint participants even created their first GitHub pull request to DSpace!* During our two week sprint (May 7-18), the team completed 10 Pull Requests (PRs) to DSpace 7. We have an additional 4 PRs that began during the sprint, and should be merged in the very near future. Work concentrated primarily on bug fixes and building out administrative functionality in DSpace 7. Most of the effort this time around concentrated on the REST API (as most participants were more comfortable with Java development). Feedback from sprint participants was very positive. Overall, they noted they learned a lot about DSpace 7 during the experience. They said they felt well supported by our sprint coaches, who were quick to respond with ideas and suggestions when they encountered issues. We also received great feedback on how to improve the sprint process for the future, namely around enhancing the documentation and getting started information for DSpace 7. The full summary & feedback from Sprint #1 is available at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+7+Community+Sprint+1 *Our next DSpace 7 Sprint (aptly named Sprint #2) will be coming up from July 9-20. *Signups for this two-week sprint are already open at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+7+Community+Sprints More details on the tasks available in Sprint #2 will be coming soon (after the OR2018 conference). But, again, sprint participants will have the option to select from REST API or Angular UI tasks. Opportunities to learn more about the REST API or Angular UI will be available prior to the sprint (as we have upcoming OR2018 workshops on both, and materials from those workshops will be shared in mid-June) We'd love to have you or your team take part in DSpace 7 development! It's also a great opportunity to get hands-on learning experience with the upcoming DSpace 7 in a welcome, supportive environment. If you have any questions about participating in a sprint, please get in touch, or find me at the OR2018 conference in a few weeks. Tim Donohue -- Tim Donohue Technical Lead for DSpace & DSpaceDirect DuraSpace.org | DSpace.org | DSpaceDirect.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
