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• Home – Most of the latest and greatest information can be found directly off the homepage. Check out the "DSpace Community" section for general information, the "Running DSpace" section for how to get started, and the "Developers" section for latest Developer news and a current roadmap.
• Code Contribution Guidelines – An evolving guide to developing code and documentation for contributing back to the DSpace community
• How to Contribute to DSpace – Find out how to contribute to and participate in DSpace
• LessonsLearned – Learn from other DSpace teams and share lessons you learned about building a DSpace service.

DSpace Demo Site

The DSpace Demo Site is a live installation of the latest version of DSpace software. It is setup such that the maximum number of DSpace features is enabled, so that you can get a better sense of all the various things that DSpace can do. This demo site also allows anyone to login as any "role" in DSpace: System Administrator, Community/Collection Administration, Submitter or basic user (Demo logins are provided in the introductory text of the XMLUI and JSPUI on the demo site). Finally, all user and system interfaces are provided (e.g. XMLUI, JSPUI, SWORD, LNI, OAI-PMH) - a full list of them is on the splashpage of the demo site.

Occasionally, the data in the demo site may be removed or refreshed. This demo site is not meant to provide permanent storage of content and is not indexed by Google or other search engines.

If you run into issues or have questions, feel free to contact us on one of the Mailing Lists or in the IRC chatroom.

DSpace Source Code / Downloads

• The current release of DSpace may be downloaded from our DSpace SourceForge project

• You may also checkout/fork the source code via Subversion (SVN) Git from our source DSpace GitHub code repository. This code repository is also browseable via the webGitHub.
  • Stable versions of DSpace can be found under Tags in SVN
  • Maintenance branches for major releases can be found under Branches
  • The UnstableUnreleased, latest code is on Trunk in SVN Master (WARNING: may be unstable at times)
  • NOTE: if you're going to be developing with DSpace, we recommend you access the DSpace code using Subversion (see GitHub. For much more information, please see Development with Git and our Code Contribution Guidelines).

DSpace Issue Tracking, Feature Requests, and Patches

The DSpace Jira system Ticketing System tracks bugs, feature requests and patches for past, current and future versions of DSpace. It also permits voting on those issues you are interested in, and registering to receive updates - if you create yourself an account.

There are currently two main sections in DSpace Jira:

• DSpace 1.x section - This is for reporting of any bugs, feature requests or patches within any of the DSpace 1.x versions.
• DSpace 2.x section - This section is being used by the DSpace+2.0 development team to track issues or feature requests that have come up in their work.

DSpace Community Sandbox

We maintain a community sandbox in our SVN at http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/sandbox/

Instructions on Usage of Sandbox

Generally, the rules are such...

• If you want commit rights or to add your own project code, email the developers list (dspace-devel) and someone will work to give you access. (You will only be given commit rights to your new project's SVN directory).
• Any projects can be added here (once you are given access), but you must maintain your own project code. The Committers will not maintain your code for you, unless it should become part of out-of-the-box DSpace (see Code Contribution Guidelines).
• Ask about project structure etc, we are working to try to organize the space so it stays clean.
• Obsolete, out-of-date or unmaintained projects may be removed at the Committers discretion. We will attempt to notify you before your project would be removed (so that you can pull down a final copy of your code, as necessary).

Project Structure of Sandbox Area

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Documentation and Guides

DSpace System Documentation

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