I think at least a WIKI page of projects is a good start, However, I
challenge that we can do better than a WIKI page or a just a page of module
descriptions. I predict such a page will suffer the fate of much of the
other efforts to organize developer documentation and result in something
that is in constant need of maintenance.
I think we, as a community can do better, I've always been saying we need
to change how we manage DSpace as a project and who can be involved with its
project as committers, the barrier to developer entry is still way too high.
The dspace-sandbox was setup to give a place for community members to
participate as developers, to try to stimulate the growth of the community
in a new direction of collaboration. I and others invested time and energy
into getting it organized into at least a simple structure that projects
could easily work within. Anyone who requests it can get an account there to
use it.
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpaceResources#DSpace_Community_Sandbox
On a sidenote: There are problems with what was going on in dspace-sandbox.
1.) There was an svk mirroring process I was running which was turned off
because it turned into a mightmare to maintain when I left MIT. The process
was ugly and hacky and showed why a central repository for all projects is
necessary. The effort that went into maintaining mirrors was impractical.
2.) Theres no fine grained permissions on a per-project basis. For which
the OSUOSL community would provide us in any manner we saw fit (not
dissimilar to the Apache Community)
IMHO, a list of projects isn't very interesting, but a bazar of shops in the
town square, now thats much more interesting.
Mark
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Mr Havercamp <[email protected]> wrote:
> Larry Stone wrote:
> > I think it would be helpful to have a central directory or registry,
> > just to announce the
> > existence of each extension and point to where there is more
> > information about it.
> > This directory would be mentioned in the documentation and on the
> > front page of the
> > wiki so it's hard to miss.
> >
> > One way to do this is with a wiki category: give every module a wiki
> > page belonging to a category e.g. "PublicModule" and let the category
> > summary page be the directory. (I'm not saying the wiki is the best
> > tool for the job, it just happens to be available and familiar.)
> >
> > There are different kinds of modules and extensions that have
> > different packaging requirements. For example, a plugin
> > implementation that can be cleanly added could just point to its home
> > source code repository or SourceForge project.
> >
> > I ran into this problem too and just put a page up on the wiki with
> > source attached:
> > http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace_SIP_Toolkit
> > It's a snippet of useful code, there ought to be a place to advertise
> > it to the community more effectively.
> >
> > -- Larry
> >
> A number of open source content management systems provide modules and
> extensions in categorized hierarchies making it easy to browse and
> search for 3rd party software.
>
> I notice that DSpace uses Joomla! for its main site and wonder if it is
> worth investigating setting up something similar to
> extensions.joomla.org, where developers can host information about their
> projects and DSpace users can browse, download and comment on the addons
> on offer.
> >
> >> I know we have an SVN "sandbox" area on GoogleCode. But, in
> >> general it
> >> does not seem to support easily finding/searching these modules, other
> >> than maybe adding a page to the DSpace Wiki to find them. In
> >> addition,
> >> it's unclear if these sandbox modules are also available via Maven
> >> Central Repository (they don't seem to be), which would be more ideal
> >> for production-quality modules.
> >>
> >> A part of me even wonders whether the "sandbox" is the most
> >> appropriate
> >> place for production-quality modules (rather than the
> >> proof-of-concept/prototypes that usually appear there).
> >>
> >> I'm asking all this because I now have three production-quality custom
> >> DSpace 1.5.1 Maven modules which I'd like to make available more
> >> widely
> >> and allow others the opportunity to use, modify & help support:
> >>
> >> (1) Maven module for Delegated Administration (Community Admins,
> >> etc.) -
> >> Based on Andrea Bollini's patch with updated bug fixes, etc. [WARNING:
> >> Overrides some classes in dspace-api]
> >>
> >> (2) Maven module for basic Embargo/Access Restriction functionality -
> >> Based partially on U Michigan's embargo patch, with extra features,
> >> bug
> >> fixes, etc. [WARNING: Overrides some classes in dspace-api]
> >>
> >> (3) Maven module for basic Download Statistics - Based partially on
> >> old
> >> stats code (2-3 years old) from U of Rochester, and updated/migrated
> >> through the years...these stats are entirely DB driven and
> >> currently do
> >> not parse DSpace log files
> >>
> >> All three of these modules are now in production in our local
> >> repository
> >> (IDEALS): http://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/ They are all standalone Maven
> >> projects which work with DSpace 1.5.1 (XMLUI only at this time). I'd
> >> like to figure out the best way to make these available to the
> >> community
> >> at large.
> >>
> >> Suggestions from fellow developers/community members welcome! Is the
> >> sandbox the most appropriate place for these addons? Or is there
> >> another area where we should start to make space for more "mature"
> >> addons?
> >>
> >> - Tim
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tim Donohue
> >> Research Programmer, IDEALS
> >> http://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/
> >> University of Illinois
> >> [email protected] | (217) 333-4648
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