Greetings from the DSpace 5.0 Release Team!
We have another exciting release of DSpace in the works that has been
growing steadily over the past few months. Many contributors have been busy
adding new features and improvements to DSpace. This speaks volumes to the
maturity, stability, and future of DSpace, that as the software project
approaches its 12th year, we're still going strong. Read on for ways to
help contribute, and find out the new features in DSpace 5.
The full release schedule is here:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+5.0+Status
October 6: Deadline for Feature Pull Requests
In plain English, October 6 is the last day you may submit new features for
acceptance into DSpace 5.0. If you are working on a new feature for DSpace,
we urge you to prepare a Pull Request now. Getting your work visible early
as a Pull Request allows others to review, and help steer your contribution
to inclusion in the next release.
Here’s how:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Code+Contribution+Guidelines
Other Important Dates:
October 31 5.beta-1 - Release Candidate 1
November 03-14 Testathon (mark your calendar)
November 20 5.beta-2 - Release Candidate 2
December (mid) DSpace 5.0 Release
Of course, this also means we have a large pile of pull requests which need
review, and other features that have been contributed but should still
receive plenty of testing. We’d like to take a moment to call a few of
those out, as they represent features we know are important to the
community. If any of these features “speak to you” please consider pitching
in with the review and testing work.
The complete list of pull requests is here:
https://github.com/dspace/dspace/pulls
Six great new features in DSpace 5
We couldn't choose just 5 great new features in DSpace 5, here's six great
features you should take a look at:
DS-1461/DSPR#591 Batch Import Items from ZIP through UI
https://github.com/dspace/dspace/pull/591
DS-1582/DSPR#629 Metadata for all DSpace objects (not just items)
https://github.com/dspace/dspace/pull/629
DS-2061/DSPR#568 Linked Open Data for DSpace
https://github.com/dspace/dspace/pull/568
DS-2049/PR#612 ORCID Integration
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/612
DS-2052/PR#587 Mirage2 Responsive Theme
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/587
DS-2108/PR#615 Google Analytics Statistics viewer (page views and downloads)
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/615
There are also many more great proposals for DSpace 5. The status page
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+5.0+Status has a
full listing of things that we hope would make it in, contributions
welcome. Lastly, we are still looking for more people to join the Release
Team. Responsibilities include attending weekly developer meetings,
reviewing pull requests, and ensuring requests get proper feedback and
testing.
________________
Peter Dietz
Longsight
www.longsight.com
pe...@longsight.com
p: 740-599-5005 x809
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