Hi Peter, On 2/12/2013 12:47 PM, Peter Dietz wrote: > Perhaps if we had more wood behind fewer arrows. (That's Larry Page > speak for higher quality.) > > Call me crazy, but I would like to see (sanity check me please), a Hydra > Head with DSpace as the backend. > > This gives us a Ruby on Rails app that is a consumer of our REST API. > > Peter Dietz
Although I like the idea of this as a project, I do want to caution that it might be too large for a Google Summer of Code. Obviously in GSoC, we'd be working with students (most of whom may not have direct experience with either DSpace or Hydra, unless we lucked out on a student who had heard of these projects). Plus we are limited to one student per project (per GSoC rules), and a student's project must be theirs & theirs alone (i.e. although they can collaborate with other developers/mentors, they need to have a scoped area of the project which only they are working on.) So, although I personally would also like to see someone do a "proof of concept" Hydra Head on a DSpace REST API (as I'm sure the Hydra folks would too), I worry that it may be too large of a project for a single student over a summer. Though maybe there'd be a way to scope it down and set better parameters around what we expect to be done over a summer. I'm not saying we couldn't still add it to the possible list of projects. I'm just saying, it might be hard to complete an entire Hydra Head on DSpace in one summer unless the student was exceptional (and had support from some exceptional mentors who know both Hydra & DSpace). - Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
