Valorie, Congratulations on the new interface.
I like the layout and the search interface. However, I have a minor semantic clarification, I would recommend changing "Addons Extensions Integrations" to just "Customizations". Many of the features listed in the "Addon" category appear to be local customizations to DSpace done as a local case and not full fledged reusable "Addons" or "Modules" that can be easily added to DSpace. I also recommend that the community really needs to properly clarify what is meant by "Addon", "Extension", "Integration", "Plugin", "Module", "Patch" and other terms. In the developers group we now already have a very strict definition of what an "Addon Module" is. We need this clarification when describing to users what the DSpace developer community officially considers the endorsed manner in which to package and distribute customizations to DSpace. Addon Modules should be Maven Artifact Modules, packaged and distributed via Maven repositories such as the Maven central repository in a manner such that they can be included into your build process as dependencies with simply a few lines of configuration. It would probably be good if there were a separate classification for "Addon Modules" that is different from other Customizations. http://wiki.dspace.org/Modules Having a well defined terminology will assure that we all understand what is being described when we are conversing with one another about how we have changed DSpace. Cheers, Mark -- Mark R. Diggory Head of U.S. Operations - @mire http://www.atmire.com - Institutional Repository Solutions http://www.togather.eu - Before getting together, get t...@ther ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
