Hello all,
Just a friendly reminder that our 6.0 Testathon begins today! We ask
that you take a few minutes of your time in these coming weeks to help
us fully test this new release. We want to ensure we are maintaining the
same level of quality that you come to expect out of a new DSpace
release. We'd also love to hear your early feedback on 6.0!
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+6.0+Testathon+Page
*WHO*: You! Everyone is invited to take part. Whether you manage
multiple instances, or are interested in trying DSpace for the first
time, we welcome your feedback.
*WHAT*: Help beta-test DSpace 6.0 to ensure that it passes its ultimate
test: that it does what users expect it to. We've added new features
(see Release Notes
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Release+Notes> and Changes
in 6.x <https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Changes+in+6.x>) that
could use more eyes, browsers, and mouse-clicks to make sure that things
aren't missing, that they don't break, and that they easily do what one
expects them to do. So if any features have issues while your testing
it, click the blue "Feedback" button and tell us about it.
*WHEN*: *Monday, April 25 through Friday, May 6, 2016.* /You can keep
visiting the site and posting your feedback, as we'll be continually
improving the software during the next few weeks./
*WHY*: The sooner we find and fix bugs, the higher quality the software
will be when it comes time to upgrade or install DSpace 6.0.
*HOW*: Go to http://demo.dspace.org <http://demo.dspace.org/> and
test-drive one of the DSpace User Interfaces, such as JSPUI or XMLUI
(see Test Plans below). If anything comes up while you are testing
DSpace, you can click the blue "Feedback" button on the page (which
creates a new ticket in our DSpace Issue Tracker
<https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS>). We're looking for feedback on
the DSpace software, as well as feedback on our unreleased
6.0 documentation
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/DSpace+6.x+Documentation>.
* Optionally, you can also run DSpace 6 locally.
o Download and install 6.0-rc1:
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-6.0-rc1
(6.0 documentation
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/DSpace+6.x+Documentation>)
o Or,**use Vagrant-DSpace
<https://github.com/DSpace/vagrant-dspace> to quickly install
DSpace 6.0-rc1 on a local virtual machine**(e.g. VirtualBox)
*Test Plans:* New for the 6.0 Testathon, our DSpace Community Advisory
Team (DCAT) has created public test plans for both the XMLUI and JSPUI.
We encourage you to add your observations and tests to these plans.
Tests are organized by user-role, where each user role is represented as
a tab in these spreadsheets. Each of the tabs has a "Role Manager" who
will help out with reviewing your feedback and keeping these test plans
clean and consistent.
* XMLUI Test Plan: http://bit.ly/xmlui-test-plan
* JSPUI Test Plan: http://bit.ly/jspui-test-plan
*Questions?* Ask them on our DSpace Tech Support list
(https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dspace-tech) or #dspace IRC
(https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/IRC)
For a list of what's new in DSpace 6.0, see the Release Notes
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Release+Notes>.
Sincerely,
Tim Donohue (on behalf of the DSpace Committers)
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Tim Donohue
Technical Lead for DSpace & DSpaceDirect
DuraSpace.org | DSpace.org | DSpaceDirect.org
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