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• 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):
  • Any refactoring that didn't happen in time for 1.8.0
  • Refactor Packagers to support Chain of Command (if it doesn't make it in 1.8.0)
  • Metadata For All - begin to enable metadata on all DSpace Objects
• Improvements / simplification of DSpace Configuration (perhaps even moving some configs to a DB). Minimally, this needs to simplify the 'dspace.cfg'.
• 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.)
  • Default install may only include: XMLUI, SOLR, possibly SWORD?
  • Change LNI, OAI-PMH, REST and JSPUI to "optional". Potentially even '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).
  • 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).
• Asynchronous Job Scheduler? (would replace the need to schedule jobs via 'cron' or similar)
• Any Features/Changes that just miss making it into 1.8.0

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• Support for DSpace with Fedora Inside (will likely require more Refactoring/Modularization to achieve)
• Any additional refactoring/changes that didn't happen in time for 1.9.0.