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For information on current and previous versions of Avalon, please see the Releases page on Github.

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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
  • Better OVA

Release 6.x

Spring 2017 — Bug fixes and improvements to 6.0.
  • Easily Edit/Import Structural Metadata 
  • Player API  
  • Continued work on AWS integration/support 
  • Simplification of Development environment (e.g. nginx, ffmpeg transcoding)

 


Release 7

Moving to Hyrax/ Modern Hydra Stack
  • PCDM support
  • Exhibits Via Spotlight 
  • Spotlight integration and implementation
  • How-to Documentation
  •  Strategy for QA
  • Staffing and workflow
  • Integrated Automated Test environments
  •  Remove RTMP Support 
  • Drop Flash
  • 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
  • granular seeking
  • move a master file to a different item
  • merge/split items
  • Better local transcode support

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Full feature list yet to be determined.

  • Publishing Out to External Media Sites 
  • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming 
  • Deeper integration with Hyrax Community 
  • Further gemification/shredding of core components
 

Technical work yet to

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be scheduled:

  • Improve unit testing 
  • SAAS solution 
  • RDF
  •  ImplemenPCDM
  •  Packaging/deployment, e.g. use of Docker. Improving installation experience.  
  • Scalability issues that may arise  
  • Automated functional testing

Unscheduled Features

  • Facebook integration 
  • Reporting and metrics 
  • Collections based group management 
  • Collections based master file handling 
  • Internationalization 
  • Administrative metadata (owner, digitizer)
  •  Provenance metadata 
  • PBCore/DublinCore crosswalks 
  • Controlled Vocabularies 
  • Import media from other sources 
  • Image content/auxiliary items (how does Avalon fit with other initiatives?)
  • Integration with oral history tools