Re: [Dspace-devel] Async releases discussion

2011-05-10 Thread Tim Donohue
All, Since it was mentioned, I'll put in a plug for the DSpace Easy Installer work I've begun (but have since set aside till I can get back to it). More below.. On 5/10/2011 9:23 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:38:52PM +0100, Robin Taylor wrote: [snip] Whilst editing a

Re: [Dspace-devel] Async releases discussion

2011-05-10 Thread Mark Diggory
On May 10, 2011, at 5:38 AM, Robin Taylor wrote: Apologies for starting this up again but... Whilst I tend towards being in favour of Mark's proposal, I think there is still a lot og grey areas so its important to keep the discussion going. Picking up on a couple of Peter's points...

Re: [Dspace-devel] Async releases discussion

2011-05-10 Thread Mark Diggory
On May 10, 2011, at 7:23 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:38:52PM +0100, Robin Taylor wrote: [snip] Whilst editing a pom is an option for developers who are familiar with the DSpace Maven infrastructure I think we need to come up something much more user friendly. In the

Re: [Dspace-devel] Async releases discussion

2011-05-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
Well, there are a couple of things to think about here: We need to distinguish building and installing. Anyone is welcome to build DSpace if he wish, but many sites don't really want to and shouldn't need to. If you're not developing the stock DSpace code then there should be no reason for you

Re: [Dspace-devel] Async releases discussion

2011-05-10 Thread Graham Triggs
On 10 May 2011 13:38, Robin Taylor robin.tay...@ed.ac.uk wrote: In the UK at least most sites do not have a dedicated repo developer. I also suspect most sites take the code from the downloadable zip and never go near SVN. There is already a Jira issue from the DCAT group asking for an

Re: [Dspace-devel] Async releases discussion

2011-05-10 Thread Tim Donohue
Hi Graham, On 5/10/2011 11:17 AM, Graham Triggs wrote: On 10 May 2011 13:38, Robin Taylor robin.tay...@ed.ac.uk mailto:robin.tay...@ed.ac.uk wrote: In the UK at least most sites do not have a dedicated repo developer. I also suspect most sites take the code from the downloadable

Re: [Dspace-devel] Async releases discussion

2011-05-10 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 08:56:04AM -0700, Mark Diggory wrote: On May 10, 2011, at 7:23 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:38:52PM +0100, Robin Taylor wrote: [snip] Whilst editing a pom is an option for developers who are familiar with the DSpace Maven infrastructure I

[Dspace-devel] [DuraSpace JIRA] Created: (DS-893) suggestion for a re-implementation of Bundles in the DSpace data model

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Hays (DuraSpace JIRA)
suggestion for a re-implementation of Bundles in the DSpace data model --- Key: DS-893 URL: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-893 Project: DSpace Issue Type:

[Dspace-devel] [DuraSpace JIRA] Commented: (DSCR-20) Fix Broken Related Items Section

2011-05-10 Thread Mark Diggory (DuraSpace JIRA)
[ https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DSCR-20?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=20255#action_20255 ] Mark Diggory commented on DSCR-20: -- Maybe we need to commit this on the trunk? Fix Broken Related

Re: [Dspace-devel] Async releases discussion

2011-05-10 Thread Mark Diggory
On May 10, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Tim Donohue wrote: Mark, A few responses inline. On 5/10/2011 10:51 AM, Mark Diggory wrote: Hmm, so you would favor a custom installer that we would have to put more resources into maintaining rather than a tried and true build tool thats got tons of