Roadmap

The following is a work in progress.

The ILG holds responsibility for defining an effective Roadmap document format, ensuring that Islandora’s broad strategic objectives are listed, and that resources made available at member institutions to make progress towards the objectives on the roadmap.

Over 2022, Islandora commits to supporting the community in a smooth transition to the next generation of our software, and building on substantial work done in recent months for the development of the community and our feature-rich, forward-facing codebase.

Q1 (to end March)

• Complete tweaks to standard experience (production release for Docker/Ansible)
• New Islandora.ca Website Launch
• Islandora AGM
• Reorganize Github Wikis
  • Complete migration and communicate about the change
• Finalize Roadmap working document and update process

Q2 (to end June)

• End-user documentation sprint (Coordinated by Islandora Intern, based on “standard experience” sandbox)
• Modularizing Islandora Defaults and consider a Solution-Pack-like wrapper for functionality
• Launch “Islandora Ambassadors” Program
• Run a comprehensive migration training and support event that provides documentation and examples of migration strategies for both new and existing users coming from 7.x.

Q3 (to end September)

• Sprint for Release of Drupal 10
• IslandoraCon 2022 with workshop pre-con (how-to sessions and demoing end user features)

Q4 (to end December)

• 2023 Roadmap released