Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
Version 7.0
DSpace 7.0 is under active development, and is tentatively scheduled to be released in late 2016.
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Wishlist for DSpace 6.0
The following is an (unordered) list of changes / new features that we'd like to see added to DSpace 6.0. If you have additional features to add, please feel free. We also NEED volunteers to make these features happen, so please do volunteer if you are willing to work on a particular change! Please note that we reserve the right to reschedule/reject any feature that may not align well with the longer term RoadMap.
| Feature | Notes / Tickets | Priority | Volunteer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single Search / Browse System (SOLR) |
| High | Kim Shepherd for Lucene |
| Single Embargo system |
| Medium | |
| Single built-in Statistical Engine (SOLR Statistics) |
| Low | |
 Service Based API / Hibernate |
| Medium/High | Kevin Van de Velde (Atmire) |
| DSpace needs local object identifiers | UUIDs are provided as part of the Service Based API refactor (see above) | Medium | Mark H. Wood |
| Enhance DSpace testing framework (for integration / acceptance testing) | Medium | ||
| Enhanced Solr Statistical Reports |
| Medium | |
| AWS S3 Bitstream Storage | A refactor of the Bitstream Storage Manager to allow different implementations for file/bitstream storage. The primary motivation is leverage a cloud service, such as Amazon S3, which offers easy management, infinite scalability, and low pricing. Other storage implementations could be built off of this work. This follows the DSpace 2.0 goal of having a Pluggable Assetstore. | Peter Dietz | |
| Enhancing Item Level Versioning | There was some discussion about the Item Level Versioning since it was introduced. This let to disable it by default (). The discussion went on and we finally have PRs waiting for review and merge regarding the following tickets:
| Medium | Pascal-Nicolas Becker |
| Make configurable which PI to show in JSPUI item view | Low | Pascal-Nicolas Becker | |
| Framework to better support metadata import from external sources | @mire | ||
Pubmed integration into XMLUI submission | Netherlands Cancer Institute | ||
| Import of ScienceDirect metadata including embargo and linking to or embedding of the final version | Letitia Mukherjee | ||
| Easier way to add custom tabs to control panel | ||
| Oauth authentication plugin | Dryad (a fork of DSpace) has already implemented this, and reportedly is interested in contributing it to DSpace 6 | High | |
| Reloadable / Dynamic Configurations | (Would also need a resolution to ) | ||
| Metadata registry via REST API | Terrence W Brady | ||
| REST API extensions to support interactive reports | https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1239 | Terrence W Brady | |
| Move LNI into a separate project | As LNI is not in wide use anymore, and it was disabled by default in 5.0, it probably would be best to migrate it to a separate GitHub Project. Anyone who wishes to still use LNI can still install it separately. But, it would no longer be provided out-of-the-box. | Robin Taylor | |
| REST API needs versioning | Peter Dietz | ||
| Default search to boolean AND | Andrea Schweer | ||
| Indexing of right-to-left text in PDFs |
Pull Requests to review for possible inclusion
New features in DSpace 6.0
- - changes the declared OAI deletion mode to "transient" which corresponds to what DSpace actually does
New Features in 6.0
General Improvements in 6.0
Bug Fixes in 6.0
Organizational Details
Release Coordination
Instead of a single "Release Coordinator", the DSpace 6.0 release will be managed by a "Release Team".
Release Team Leader
- TBD
Release Team Members
Please volunteer (by emailing Tim Donohue), if you are interested in joining the team!
Timeline and Processing
Your contributions are welcome now! Code and documentation need not be finished, so long as it is working and we can all see what it is for. Time is set aside for fixing, polishing, and integration. We have some general Code Contribution Guidelines available, but you are also welcome to ask questions on the dspace-devel mailing list.
Release Timeline
Please note that the dates below are estimates of when particular activities may occur. As there are many factors involved in a major release, these are subject to change.
| Date | Milestone | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| November 12 | Deadline for feature pull requests | If you wish to contribute features to DSpace 6.0, you must submit a pull request by this date. |
| November 18 | Weekly developers' meeting devoted to review of feature pull requests for 6.0 | The entire hour's meeting will be used to discuss proposed features submitted by the deadline. |
| November 25 | Weekly developers' meeting devoted to review of feature pull requests for 6.0 | The entire hour's meeting will be used to discuss proposed features submitted by the deadline. |
January 8, 2016 (tentative) | Feature freeze | DSpace 6.0 is considered feature-complete on this date. Only bugfixes will be pulled between this date and final release. |
| January 21 | Release Candidate 1 tagged | A DSpace 6.0 Release Candidate will be available for wider testing. |
January 25-February 5 | Testathon | Intensive public testing of the 6.0 Release Candidate is invited. The Release Team will focus on getting problems resolved. |
| February 10 | Release Candidate 2 tagged | An updated DSpace 6.0 Release Candidate will be available for wider testing. |
| February/March | DSpace 6.0 is publicly released | DSpace 6.0 is released for download and general use. |
Release Process needs to proceed according to the following Maven release process: Release Procedure
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