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• Announce to dspace-devel, dspace-tech and dspace-general lists the date of the feature freeze for the coming release, requesting patches and bug fixes.

• The job of the release team is not to test all the patches and fix all the bugs, but to help others in doing so. Advise the list of any important events in development and liaise with patch authors to ensure smooth development.

• Once the free freeze date has occurred, hold a Testathon. Encourage the community to take part in the testathon to make the release less buggy. Ask for volunteers to run test instances of the new version to allow people who do not have access to a server to be able to test it.

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