[Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 release roadmap

[Scott Phillips]

DSpace Community,

The second beta release of DSpace 1.5 is now available on  
SourceForge.net. There is no test-a-thon scheduled for this beta  
release. However we would all appreciate everyone updating their  
DSpace test instances with the new beta. Please verify that any bugs  
submitted during the first beta have been corrected. If they have not,  
open or reopen a bug report on SourceForge. Alternatively you may send  
an email to dspace-devel at lists.sourceforge.net with the bug.

As far as the DSpace 1.5 release: we're on schedule, but there is  
still more work to be done. All of the previously identified "release  
critical" bugs have been fixed, there are only a few minor bugs left.  
I expect to cut the first release candidate next monday (3/17) or soon  
thereafter.

Scott--

P.S. It will take few hours for the release to propagate into the  
central maven repository, you may want to wait a few hours before  
updating.


On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:58 AM, Scott Phillips wrote:

>
> DSpace Community,
>
> We have seen lots of progress lately to move us more towards the  
> DSpace 1.5 release but there is still more to do. The major road  
> blocks that have been a challenge to over come with this release is  
> the documentation. Looking over the state of things today, there is  
> still work to be done. Although the basic documentation is present  
> -- a system administrator can follow the directions and install a  
> fresh copy of DSpace -- there is still some work to do documenting  
> the upgrade process.However I do not feel that should prevent us  
> from moving forward at this time.
>
> Our road map for the next release of DSpace is:
> 2/13 -- Release Beta 1
> 2/18 through 2/22 -- DSpace 1.5 test-a-thon
> 3/10 -- Release Beta 2
> 3/24 -- Release DSpace 1.5
> 4/1 -- Open Repositories 2008
>
> I very much hope that as many people as possible are able to find  
> some time during the the week of the 18th to give the beta release a  
> test. During this period please help out by testing out the new -  
> and old - features of dspace plus contribute to the available  
> documentation both in the manual and on the wiki.
>
> Scott--