The SVN repository is at http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace.

If you are doing development work you'd like to contribute to the community, please consider checking DSpace out of our Subversion repository rather than using a packaged download. Also, please be sure to read ContributionGuidelines.

See also: updating your local code base if you've already made many modifications to a downloaded DSpace version.

If you have more than one developer, or need to manage versions or releases yourself (e.g. deploying customised DSpace software to a production server), you should consider using your own CVS tree with the DSpace core code on a vendor branch. see Running your own CVS repository

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Code Contribution Guidelines

• ContributionGuidelines - Provides details on our Code Approval processes and our DSpace code conventions! Before you get started on your project, make sure you understand our Code Contribution Guidelines!

Developing Environments

You are free to use whatever developer environment works for you. Here are some guides for setting up and using particular environments.

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• DSpace Developer Documentation by Richard Jones: covers parts of both 1.3.2 and 1.4.
• How To Guides
• System Docs for latest stable release