Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About ArchivesSpace Development (but were maybe afraid to ask)

As community supported software, the ArchivesSpace application is the result of the energy and effort of many people of widely varying levels of technical capabilities and relationships to the program. This page pulls together our many resources explaining how making ArchivesSpace works and how you can get involved.

• Introduction to JIRA (wiki page and video)

• How to read a JIRA ticket

• JIRA glossaries

• Lifecycle of a ticket (presentation) and our JIRA workflow (full diagram)

• How to submit a bug report

• How to request a new feature
  
  

• Development Prioritization sub-team process (presentation and team charge)

• How prioritized tickets are selected for development work

• Roadmap

• General overview

• Sprint process

• Testing (Testing sub-team charge)

• Preparing a release

• Overview of how to contribute

• Process for making larger community contributions

• Evaluation process for larger contributions

• Some basics on turning a plug-in into core code

• Community developers queue (2019 Member Forum presentation and blog post)

• Technical documentation