Hi Bojan, > I have tested it and resolved issues/errors found at this time, however, > I think this code hasn't been checked or tested extensively by community > so this contributed to the fact that the code is not yet included in the > distribution. During development we issued several calls on the dev list > asking for feature suggestions etc but not much interest has been raised.
Unfortunately that is one of the joys / pains of being a community developed open source project. The amount of effort that we have varies considerably over time, as do people's interest. However, a year on, there is a lot more interest from a larger group of people to see a RESTful API for DSpace, so we would love to see it developed to a point where we can include it as part of the core product. So I suspect this year there will likely be a lot more interest from the community and wider mentoring group. We're also likely to request less GSoC students this year, as we recognize that we have perhaps spread ourselves too thinly in the past, and we're actively recruiting more mentors to ensure that there is a small team of mentors for each project rather than just one or two. > Anyways, I was thinking to apply to GSoC/DSpace again. If there is > interest and need in community (mentors, new ideas wrt additional > requirements/changes/...) I could continue with this code or apply for > other subproject. Speaking purely for myself, although I'm sure others would agree, we'd love to have you apply again, and carry on with the project. The timing of GSoC is likely going to fit well with our next release (1.7), so we can actively work towards getting the project included as part of that. If the API itself gets finished earlier than the end of GSoC, it would be good to start writing some example applications that make use of the API, or rewrite some current components that would be better broken away from talking to the dspace-api core directly, and go via the API. Thanks, Stuart Lewis IT Innovations Analyst and Developer Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand Ph: 64 9 373-7599 x81928 http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
