Dear Dspace Developers,
A couple of weeks ago there was a discussion at the developers meeting about
what to call the "Beta" release.
In one of the discussions in the dspace-devel list (I believe
about Asynchronous release) someone mentioned in passing something about
DSpace11 to represent the core release in 2011.
I like this idea, and since it was embedded within a larger discussion I
decided to bring it out here separate separately.
Since the idea of DSpace 2.0 is a bit muddled by the previous work on a 2.0
version of DSpace, I think a renaming of the release product could be a good
move.
>From the Proposed Roadmap to 2.0
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Proposed+RoadMap+to+2.0 it looks
like there is a planned major release every year; this would sync up with
those plans.
The minor (bug-fix) releases could still be denoted by the number after the
decimal point.(ex- DSpace11.1)
It may seem like a superficial change but I think it would add context to
the release name (Right now the context is that DSpace 1.7 comes after
DSpace 1.6), as well as break out of the (we're working towards DSpace
2.0-some version) loop.
With regards to the beta release, I think that adopting something like
Chrome's beta and developer channels might clear things up, where projects
graduate from one to the other, and then if a beta project has matured and
been tested enough by the time the Major release comes about, it might
graduate to the core.
I'm not sure about the details with module releases but I think this might
be enough to start a discussion.
What are your thoughts?
-Joseph
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