Hi Hilton, On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Hilton Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. We had to set the "maxHttpHeaderSize" parameter for Tomcat 6, when using > Tomcat without the Apache "mod_jk" module.
this was specific to your environment: 1) You enabled the (optional in DSpace 3) Discovery module and 2) you had a large number of users in a group, that exceeded the default limits of Tomcat (HTTP header size). I agree that, with Discovery being the default in DSpace 4, it's important to fully support it. But, unfortunately, limits in Tomcat is something we have zero influence on. The only thing we can do better is to document it. > 2. We had to delete some old tables in the PostgreSQL DB relating to the > conversion of the browse indexes to the SOLR DB. Again, you chose to enable a non-default, experimental feature in DSpace 3 (Solr browse DAOs). It had a known bug with a documented workaround and it's fixed in DSpace 4 where this is enabled by default. As you can see, there is little else that could have been done to prevent this, regardless of our release/versioning/support infrastructure. Bugs do happen and we do try to fix them. > ==Possible Solution== I'm very familiar with both Debian and DSpace. As you know, several years ago DSpace opted for time-based releases. These are basically the anti-thesis of "released when ready", although we do adopt its freeze/test/release strategy for all major releases. It is my personal opinion that time-based releases have proved to work very well for the DSpace community and I don't see the incentive to change them. A similar strategy - LTS releases - could work, but from a practical standpoint there would have to be developers commited to maintaining an old version with bug fixes for many years including the stack of old versions of dependencies which are also being phased out of support - I currently don't see anyone interested in doing this. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WatchGuard Dimension instantly turns raw network data into actionable security intelligence. It gives you real-time visual feedback on key security issues and trends. Skip the complicated setup - simply import a virtual appliance and go from zero to informed in seconds. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=123612991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
