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Current and Previous Releases
Release 6
January 2017 - Replacing Fedora 3 with Fedora 4; feature parity with Release 5
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- Set RuboCop profile as part of build
- Improve packaging
- Create ansible solution and docker containers (internal only)
- Better developer install methods
Release 6.x
Spring 2017. Bug fixes and improvements to 6.0
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- Simplification of Development environment (e.g. nginx, ffmpeg transcoding)
Release 7
Move to Hyrax/ Modern Hydra Stack
- Spotlight integration and implementation
- Integrated Automated Test environments
- Investigate HLS on all platforms and its implications
- Create one player view in Avalon
- Re-implement media element customization against the main branch
- Adjust streaming security model
- Move to standard mediaelement
- Better internal permissions setup
- Gemification/Break interdependencies
- Streaming gem for another repo app
- Bulk metadata/editing gem
- Structural Metadata Improvements
- move a master file to a different item
- Better local transcode support
Release 8
TBD - feature list in flux
- Publishing Out to External Media Sites
- Dynamic Adaptive Streaming
- Deeper integration with Hyrax Community
- Further gemification/shredding of core components
Technical work to schedule:
- Packaging/deployment, e.g. use of Docker. Improving installation experience.
- Scalability issues that may arise
- Automated functional testing
Unscheduled Features
- Collections based group management
- Collections based master file handling
- Administrative metadata (owner, digitizer)
- PBCore/DublinCore crosswalks
- Import media from other sources
- Image content/auxiliary items (how does Avalon fit with other initiatives?)
- Integration with oral history tools