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If your institution has a specific issue or bug to which you would like to commit developer resources, you can indicate this to the ArchivesSpace core development team by logging an issue in the support JIRA and indicating you have a developer that will be taking on this work. For larger contributions, please contact the ArchivesSpace Program manager.
The ArchivesSpace release process presumes that the master branch in archivesspace/archivesspace is maintained as stable, deployable code, and that a separate branch or repository is used to commit changes prior to release.
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