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If the prior goals are achieved, it would be possible to manage multiple hosted instances of DSpace for each major branch of the system in addition to the production reference version at demo.dspace.org.
Goal 5: Publish instructions for a
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replicable development environment for on-boarding, tutorials, and troubleshooting
Frequent contributors to DSpace are likely to manage and maintain a robust development environment that includes best of class development tools such as IDE's.
There is also a need to assist new contributors and potential contributors with the creation of a simple and basic development environment for DSpace.
While Docker can standardize the runtime and test environments, it may be possible to document a replicable development environment to help with on-boarding.
See Using Published Images on AWS Cloud9 as a possible example.
Implementation Costs
- Hosting AIP resources (storage and bandwidth)
- Hosting multiple DSpace reference instances (dspacer-4x, dspace-5x, dspace-6x, dspace-7x) in addition to demo.dspace.org (compute, storage, bandwidth)
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