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1. Additional Refactoring & Modularization (especially in preparation for "DSpace with Fedora Inside"). This may include the following proposals (Note: the implementation details of these proposals are obviously up for discussion):
   1. Any refactoring that didn't happen in time for 1.8.0
   2. Refactor Packagers to support Chain of Command (if it doesn't make it in 1.8.0)
   3. Metadata For All - begin to enable metadata on all DSpace Objects
2. Improvements / simplification of DSpace Configuration (perhaps even moving some configs to a DB). Minimally, this needs to simplify the 'dspace.cfg'.
3. Change which Interfaces come "out-of-the-box", and allow others to be optionally installed at a later time (The following is only meant as an example.)
   1. Default install may only include: XMLUI, SOLR, possibly SWORD?
   2. Change LNI, OAI-PMH, REST and JSPUI to "optional".
      1. Potentially 'deprecate' support for LNI (or locate external, third-party support for it). Discuss whether any other Interfaces should be similarly deprecated (based on community-wide usage, etc).
   3. Encourage the community to develop / share / support their own third-party UIs (which potentially could communicate with DSpace via REST API, or via a refactored DSpace Domain Model API).
4. Asynchronous Job Scheduler? (would replace the need to schedule jobs via 'cron' or similar)
5. Any Features/Changes that just miss making it into 1.8.0
   1. Context Sensitive Help for XMLUI (@mire)

DSpace 2.0 (TBD - Oct 2013?)

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