Hi, I am just sending a quick reminder, the DSpace 5.0 Testathon is going on
right now, and will continue through November 21, 2014.
TESTATHON ESSENTIALS
Details on how to participate: see [1]
Details about new features, bug fixes in 5.0 and release schedule: see [2]
CALL FOR TRANSLATIONS
This is also the time to send us your translations of DSpace 5.0
(Messages_xx.properties and messages_xx.xml files). Both new and updated
translations are welcome. When updating translations, please try to contact the
previous translator first to avoid possible duplication of work.
You may send translations at any time, but to make them easily available to
others via the DSpace build process, try to send them before the 5.0 release
date, tentatively scheduled for December 15.
To send a translation, register/log in to Jira [3], file a new issue (e.g.
"Updated French translation") and attach the files to that issue.
You can find the latest English version of these files here: [4] [5]
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[1] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+5.0+Testathon+Page
[2] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+5.0+Status
[3] https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS
[4]
https://raw.github.com/DSpace/DSpace/master/dspace-xmlui/src/main/webapp/i18n/messages.xml
[5]
https://raw.github.com/DSpace/DSpace/master/dspace-api/src/main/resources/Messages.properties
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From: Peter Dietz [pe...@longsight.com]
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 4:43 PM
To: Pottinger, Hardy J.
Cc: dspace-tech
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 5.0 Testathon begins Nov 10, 2014 -- Users /
Feedback wanted
Hi All,
As Hardy mentioned, DSpace 5 Test-a-Thon has begun, so if you have a feature,
bug-fix, or regression that you are looking or not looking for, please look or
not-look for it on the DSpace Demo site, which has been updated to the latest
release.
So. demo.dspace.org<http://demo.dspace.org> is the official place to try out
DSpace 5.
I've also stood up a TryDSpace5 instance hosted by
Longsight<http://www.longsight.com/>: http://trydspace5.longsight.com/
You can also find jspui at: http://trydspace5.longsight.com/jspui/
If for reference, you need access to a site running DSpace 4, you can look at:
https://trydspace.longsight.com/
One of the new features of DSpace 5 that I'm most excited about is the CRUD
additions to the REST API, so I have a rest client demo app pointing to the
TryDSpace5 (Longsight) rest api:
https://dspace-rest-client-play.herokuapp.com/communities
You can use the same site-admin account that you could use at
Demo.DSpace.org<http://Demo.DSpace.org>
I've also enabled the PDF Citation Coverpage at:
http://trydspace5.longsight.com/handle/123456789/79
If there is something that you would like to test on either site, please
contact me, the dspace-tech list, or pop in to #dspace IRC, developers standing
by.
Also, a little "meta" on the DSpace 5 release candidate. We (Hardy) released
DSpace 5 RC1 over the weekend. We are going to quickly release an RC2 tonight,
based on some of our findings. But keep on testing sites, or test it yourself
on a local clone/build of the code.
Thanks All!
________________
Peter Dietz
Longsight
www.longsight.com<http://www.longsight.com>
pe...@longsight.com<mailto:pe...@longsight.com>
p: 740-599-5005 x809
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Pottinger, Hardy J.
<pottinge...@missouri.edu<mailto:pottinge...@missouri.edu>> wrote:
>From Hardy Pottinger, DSpace 5.0 Release Team Member
The first Release Candidate for DSpace 5.0 will be made available for testing
on November 6, 2014.
Some new features of interest include:
For all UIs:
* Batch import from Zip files uploaded via the admin interface of either UI
* Easier Database upgrades, thanks to the inclusion of Flyway, an open-source
database migration tool
* A feature-complete REST API, supporting both read and write operations
* Linked (Open) Data support
* Metadata for all DSpace Objects
* Improved thumbnail generation (via ImageMagick/Ghostscript)
* Google Analytics integration now tracks "downloads" of bitstreams
* A place to add third-party plugins
For JSPUI only:
* HTML5-based drag and drop upload interface for uploading bitstreams during
submission
* Per-item configurable visual indicators for browse and search results
For XMLUI only:
* Mirage2 theme, utilizing many modern web design tools and technologies,
facilitating a "responsive" web design, adapting to any screen size
* ORCID integration via an authority plugin, and a new authority cache
* Serpa/Romeo lookup
* Rendering MathML code in abstracts
* Error pages (including page not found) are all styled with your own site
styles
* Collection drop down box performance improvements for repositories with a
large number of collections
* (Optional) ability to generate citation cover pages on PDFs
* An aspect for adding Google Analytics web usage information to item pages
There's much more. Please see full list on the Release Status page at:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+5.0+Status
ATTENTION ORACLE SITES
Hi, sorry to shout at you, but now that we have your attention, please do plan
on testing the release candidates of DSpace 5.0 on your own infrastructure.
We'd like to minimize the surprises on the day that 5.0 is officially released,
and the best way to do that is with your help. If at all possible, please
consider testing DSpace 5.0, to ensure it is compatible with Oracle. Ideally,
this would mean testing a new install, and an upgrade. Thanks!
We've really improved our Oracle testing capabilities during this release
process, and that's something that makes me particularly proud. But, setting
pride aside, we still need your help to test DSpace 5.0.
INVITATION TO TRANSLATORS
If you are willing to translate DSpace message catalogs into another language:
the 5.0 catalogs should be nearly stable now.
TESTATHON and NEXT STEPS:
We plan to tag RC1 on Thursday November 6, 2014. There will be another
announcement when it is ready for download. If you would like to try out the
next release of DSpace in your own test environment, please do, and tell us
what you find.
The 5.0 Testathon begins on Monday, Nov. 10, 2014 and continues through Nov.
21. RC1 will be available on http://demo.dspace.org. You can try it out
without installing your own instance, and your feedback would be appreciated.
Look for the red Feedback button to report issues with the demo site.
As always, if you really want to get your hands dirty, you can spin up your own
testing instance of DSpace using Vagrant-DSpace:
https://github.com/DSpace/vagrant-dspace
The actual use of a software product is always more varied and surprising than
the developers and maintainers imagined. Please help us ensure that DSpace 5.0
will do what you expect. Thanks!
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