All, In keeping with our recent decision to set a regular, timed release schedule, the DSpace Developers have scheduled DSpace 1.8.0 for release in October 2011.
DSpace 1.8.0 will be the next major release of the software, promising new features and improvements to the platform. Although the exact features have yet to be finalized, many potential features are listed on our new 1.8.0 Release Notes page (see below), along with a tentative release schedule. The 1.8.0 feature list may change in the coming months and only those features fully completed by the cut-off date of August 19, 2011 will be included in the 1.8.0 release. http://wiki.dspace.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+1.8.0+Notes If you or you institution would like to contribute ideas or code to 1.8.0, please visit our How To Contribute page for more information. https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/HowToContribute == DSpace 1.8.0 Release Coordinator - Robin Taylor of EDINA == In addition to announcing our DSpace 1.8.0 Release Schedule, we are ready to announce the 1.8.0 Release Coordinator! Robin Taylor, a DSpace Committer from EDINA (http://edina.ac.uk/), has volunteered to coordinate this next major release. Robin has been involved with the DSpace community for a number of years both in his current role as a developer for the Jorum project (http://www.jorum.ac.uk), and previously as a developer with the University of Edinburgh, supporting their DSpace research archive and those of a number of other Scottish educational institutions. The Release Coordinator's role is to help keep the release process "on track". As DSpace is a community-driven open source project, new ideas and new features come directly from members of our community. These new features/ideas are reviewed, approved and scheduled for release by the DSpace Committer team. It is the Release Coordinator's duty to ensure that, during these processes, the release is kept on-schedule and regular updates are provided both to the developers and the community. (For more information on the code approval processes, please visit the DSpace Contribution Guidelines: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/ContributionGuidelines ) We hope that you are as excited about these announcements as we are! Sincerely, The DSpace Committers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
