All, As announced in yesterday's "DSpace 7 Q&A Webinar", the 7.4 release is planned for October (tentatively Oct 10). For this release, the DSpace 7 Working Group will be concentrating on maintenance tasks (bug fixes, usability/accessibility improvements, and similar). However, we will accept donations of new features (and plan to accept a few features which barely missed the 7.3 release in June).
If you'd like to help with 7.4, there are a few ways to do so: 1. Donate a new feature to 7.4. If you have started or plan to start building a new feature which you'd like to give back to DSpace for the 7.4 release, please let me know by August 1. Your code need not be ready to review by that date, but the DSpace 7 Working Group<https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+7+Working+Group> must be informed of your planned contribution to 7.4 by Aug 1. This will allow us to ensure we have reviewers/testers available to help get your feature into 7.4 (and if we do not, we can work with you on an alternative release plan) 2. Help report bugs you are seeing in any 7.x release. As noted, for 7.4, the DSpace 7 Working Group is planning to squash as many bugs, and other issues as possible. If you know if issues that have not yet been reported in our ticketing system, please report them as soon as reasonably possible. That way we can work to get them fixed in 7.4! * Report User Interface bugs to https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues (or report a bug here if you just don't know if it's in the user interface or backend) * Report backend/data bugs to https://github.com/DSpace/dspace/issues * When reporting a bug, we ask that you try to provide us with a step-by-step process to reproduce it. That makes it much easier for us to identify it and ensure it gets fixed. 3. Help us fix small bugs. If you are a developer (or have developers on staff), consider making your first (or next) code contribution to DSpace 7. Since this is a maintenance-heavy release, we'll be concentrating on fixing bugs, usability, or accessibility issues. A number of these issues are labeled as "good first issue" in GitHub -- these are issues we've verified are smaller/easier to tackle. If you'd like to claim one, get in touch (add a comment in GitHub, or send me a message in Slack/email). The more developers we have tackling issues, the more we can get done! * Issues in the Angular UI labeled "good first issue": https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22 * Issues on the Java backend labeled "good first issue": https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22 Finally, for anyone interested in contributing to a future release, we plan to release a new version of 7.x every 4 months. Some releases will be feature-heavy while others may be maintenance-heavy. Here's the tentative upcoming schedule: * 7.4 is due Oct 2022 * 7.5 is due Feb 2023 * 7.6 is due June 2023 If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch and/or join a future DSpace 7 Working Group<https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+7+Working+Group> meeting. Tim -- Tim Donohue (he/him) Technical Lead, DSpace tim.dono...@lyrasis.org Lyrasis.org<https://www.lyrasis.org/> | DSpace.org<http://dspace.org> [cid:c409576c-9b4a-42e1-a24a-acaee80c3110] -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-devel/PH0PR22MB3274EA29273B2A8C38696153ED889%40PH0PR22MB3274.namprd22.prod.outlook.com.
