Hi Kopsacheilis,

that's great news on what you have achieved and that you want to share
the development! It's a good decision, getting the code into DSpace
will eliminate the burden of maintaining your patches against future
new DSpace versions.

Right now we're in the point in the release cycle when we're busy on
finalizing the release (DSpace 3.0), so we're not concentrating on new
features. But after the release, in about a month, we'll resume
accepting new features. In this case, I recommend you to first share
patches you used to migrate DSpace to Solr 4.0 and then share the
geospatial patches. Once the patches are accepted, your contributions
would be available out-of-the-box in DSpace 4.0.

We use Jira [1] to keep track of new features, improvements and bugs,
so you may file these 2 bugs right away. You could also attach patches
there as attachment, but since we're working with Git, we prefer to
use GitHub [2] for collaboration. It would be preferable if you
register for a GitHub account, create an organization (so that
multiple people from your institution can work on your organization's
repository), fork the DSpace repository [3], create a separate branch
for each feature and then make pull requests against the DSpace/DSpace
repository. It's really easy once you get the hang of it.

Here's an example of a Jira issue we used to keep track of upgrading
Solr to 3.5.0 [4]. It also contains links to the correspondig branch
on GitHub.

Meanwhile, if you want to make an addon for DSpace 1.8 or 3.0, you're
welcome to do so, too. If you decide to do that, I will follow up with
more instructions.

[1] https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/
[2] https://github.com/
[3] https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/
[4] https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1181

Regards,
~~helix84

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