Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace deployment methods

2015-08-21 Thread TAYLOR Robin
://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/991 and https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2654 for a bit more info. - Tim On 8/17/2015 5:07 AM, TAYLOR Robin wrote: Hi Terry, That's really useful, thanks. The main problem for me is that configuration is so entwined with both the Maven build and the Ant

[Dspace-devel] DSpace deployment methods

2015-08-13 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi all, I notice there was a brief discussion about DSpace deployment methods yesterday in the developer meeting. I would be very interested to hear what others do, what sort of tools they use, what sort of infrastructure they have etc. If anyone is willing to share please do reply. For our

Re: [Dspace-devel] PLEASE VOTE on whether to include Services API refactoring in DSpace 6.0

2015-08-10 Thread TAYLOR Robin
+1 This is all good practice, industry standard stuff that we probably should have done ages ago, so well done to the @Mire guys for pushing it forward. Cheers. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: Tim Donohue tdono...@duraspace.org Sent: 06 August 2015 15:47 To:

Re: [Dspace-devel] Repec export

2015-06-17 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Many thanks to Stuart, it worked a treat! Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz Sent: 15 June 2015 22:05 To: TAYLOR Robin; dspace-tech; DSpace Developers Subject: Re: Repec export We

[Dspace-devel] Repec export

2015-06-15 Thread TAYLOR Robin
(Apologies for cross-posting) Hi all, We run a Perl script (dspace2redif.pl) periodically that uses OAI-PMH to generate a file which we use to update http://repec.org/. I've forgotten the origins of the script but it was downloaded and I believe is used at other sites. Anyway, we recently

Re: [Dspace-devel] We need to think a bit more about how we use the 'statistics' Solr core

2015-03-24 Thread TAYLOR Robin
administrators to abandon the historical stuff. All possible but a bit messy. Cheers. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: Peter Dietz pe...@longsight.com Sent: 24 March 2015 15:34 To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: Andrea Schweer; DSpace Developers Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] We need to think

Re: [Dspace-devel] We need to think a bit more about how we use the 'statistics' Solr core

2015-03-17 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi Andrea, You are quite right about the download stats, I had forgotten that. Cheers. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: Andrea Schweer schw...@waikato.ac.nz Sent: 16 March 2015 02:31 To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: DSpace Developers Subject

Re: [Dspace-devel] We need to think a bit more about how we use the 'statistics' Solr core

2015-03-13 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi Andrea, Just a wee point about GA stats with apologies if I am stating the obvious. You can present data going back as long as you have been collecting it, not just from the moment you enable the DSpace GA Stats XMLUI aspect. Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh

[Dspace-devel] Maven optional modules

2014-11-14 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi all, Was away yesterday so just read the notes from the developer meeting. With regards to our Maven optional modules, rather than finding a way to accommodate them in our Pom's should we maybe be looking to not have optional modules? The expectation is that the LNI will be dropped for the

[Dspace-devel] DSpace Sword Client anyone?

2014-09-02 Thread TAYLOR Robin
With apologies for cross-posting. Hi all, Unfortunately the DSpace Sword Client feature (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/SWORDv1+Client) has an unsupported dependency, Apache Httpclient (http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/). The practical choices are to leave the dependency in

[Dspace-devel] DSpace and Google Analytics

2014-08-22 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Just emailing in case anyone out there has an interest in Google Analytics. I've raised a Jira issue with associated Pull Request for a new feature to embed Google Analytics reporting in DSpace and would be grateful for any feedback. https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2108

[Dspace-devel] Mirage2 pull request

2014-08-19 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi all, Given that the significant issues with the Mirage2 PR had been addressed I hit the merge button on the PR. It occurred to me after that others may have still wanted more time to review so apologies if I was a little quick off the mark. Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library

[Dspace-devel] Apache HttpClient

2014-08-06 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi all, Looks like historically we had Apache Commons HttpClient v3 managed as a dependency the dspace-parent Pom... dependency groupIdcommons-httpclient/groupId artifactIdcommons-httpclient/artifactId version3.1/version /dependency More

Re: [Dspace-devel] Is HTML5 widespread enough for DSpace to depend on it?

2014-07-24 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Personally I would say definitely yes. At the very least we could just move to an HTML5 Doctype to allow for future use. Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: Mark H. Wood mw...@iupui.edu Sent: 23 July 2014 20:36 To:

[Dspace-devel] DSpace 4.2 released!

2014-07-23 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Dear DSpace Community: On behalf of the DSpace developers, I would like to formally announce that DSpace 4.2 is now available. DSpace 4.2 is a bug-fix release and contains no new features. DSpace 4.2 can be downloaded immediately at either of the following locations: * SourceForge:

Re: [Dspace-devel] Should we simply un-deprecate DCValue?

2014-01-27 Thread TAYLOR Robin
I am a reluctant +1 to undeprecating it. I agree with Graham that DCValue needs to go, but until such time as we provide a real alternative its pointless having it flagged as deprecated. I guess the only benefit to it currently being marked as deprecated is that we might well not even be

Re: [Dspace-devel] current hardware recommendations for DSpace?

2013-11-19 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi Hardy, I am a little wary about recommending hardware, there are so many different use cases for DSpace out there. I was once contacted by an architects office that just wanted somewhere to store their drawings. The danger is that someone considering DSpace may conclude that our recommendation

[Dspace-devel] Ant fresh_install error

2013-08-15 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi all, I just checked out Keiji's code for DS-1613. It built successfully but failed on the Ant fresh_install at target setup_database. I am emailing the list as the error looks to have nothing to do with his changes so I am hoping it might ring a bell with someone. This is the error…

[Dspace-devel] FW: Repository Fringe 2013 - Programme Announced / How to Take Part

2013-07-25 Thread TAYLOR Robin
With apologies for cross-postingŠ On 25/07/2013 14:33, OSBORNE Nicola nicola.osbo...@ed.ac.uk wrote: There is just one week to go until Repository Fringe 2013, which takes place in Edinburgh from 31st July 2013 to 2nd August 2013. You can find out more about the Fringe on the website:

[Dspace-devel] Memory leak in dspace-services

2013-03-25 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi all, I'm in search of help. We have been suffering from a memory leak recently causing out-of-memory exceptions and *I think* the cause is this:- In DSpaceWebappServletFilter.doFilter() there is a call to requestService.startRequest() which in turn calls all registered RequestInterceptors,

Re: [Dspace-devel] Memory leak in dspace-services

2013-03-25 Thread TAYLOR Robin
solve the leak, but I don't know if that would pervert whatever the original intention of the code was. Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh From: Hilton Gibson [hilton.gib...@gmail.com] Sent: 25 March 2013 18:42 To: TAYLOR Robin Cc

[Dspace-devel] Repository Fringe 2013 - Book The Date!

2013-02-18 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Apologies for cross-posting. * Book the date for the 6th Annual Repository Fringe! ** The University of Edinburgh with support from the Digital Curation Centre, EDINA, and Edinburgh University Library are delighted to announce that after its temporary incorporation into Open

Re: [Dspace-devel] IDE development issues with DSpace 3.0 + build.properties

2012-10-18 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Actually if you had namedspace.config/name you could activate it exactly as before. Unfortunately there is a wee inconsistency in dspace-oai/pom.xml that needs corrected so you can't do that quite yet. Cheers. From: TAYLOR Robin Sent: 18 October 2012 16

Re: [Dspace-devel] Soliciting Initial Contributions to DSpace 3.0

2012-07-17 Thread TAYLOR Robin
This one is of interest to me so I've assigned it to myself and will make sure it gets reviewed over the coming weeks. Cheers, Robin. From: Steve Swinsburg [steve.swinsb...@anu.edu.au] Sent: 16 July 2012 22:50 To: Sands Alden Fish Cc:

Re: [Dspace-devel] Using Maven Overlays to customize Submission Process

2012-06-12 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi Cesar, The dspace/modules folders actually overlay the War files which themselves contain the dspace-api.jar. So if your choice of UI is the XMLUI you can overlay a dspace-api class by putting it in the modules/xmlui folder in the same way you would do for an XMLUI class. Does that make

[Dspace-devel] FW: Dspace and Maven 3

2011-08-25 Thread TAYLOR Robin
is restricted to IntellijIDEA. Thanks, Robin. From: TAYLOR Robin Sent: 25 August 2011 09:02 To: dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Mark Diggory; Graham Triggs Subject: [Dspace-devel] Dspace and Maven 3 Hi all, Following on from yesterday's discussion

[Dspace-devel] Dspace and coding conventions

2011-08-23 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi all, I notice someone kindly loaded a settings file for Eclipse for the agreed coding conventions... https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Code+Contribution+Guidelines#CodeContributionGuidelines-CodingConventions I was wondering if anyone had ever gone to the trouble of creating one for

[Dspace-devel] DS-755 needs reviewed

2010-11-23 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi all, If anyone has a chance could they cast a quick eye over... https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-755 Its definitely a bug and its one that would be good to fix in 1.7. I would appreciate it if someone could have a quick look at the patch or attached class to see if I have made any

Re: [Dspace-devel] Solr for 1.7

2010-11-04 Thread TAYLOR Robin
To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] Solr for 1.7 Robin, is it possible you just need to provide more memory to your JVM? -- sands fish Senior Software Engineer MIT Libraries Technology Research Development sa...@mit.edu E25-131

[Dspace-devel] Java checked vs unchecked exceptions

2010-11-03 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi all, A couple of us have been having our own 'checked vs unchecked exceptions' debate on the IRC #dspace channel so I thought I would widen the audience to get some more opinions. I just changed DCDate to thow a checked exception if it is fed an invalid parameter eg 31st February. There

Re: [Dspace-devel] Java checked vs unchecked exceptions

2010-11-03 Thread TAYLOR Robin
, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6513808 -Original Message- From: TAYLOR Robin Sent: 03 November 2010 11:44 To: dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Dspace-devel] Java checked vs unchecked exceptions Hi all, A couple of us have been

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace harvesting process

2010-11-01 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi Paul, The bit you are looking for is method processRecord(...). It uses a selection of crosswalks to process the incoming XML and the write it to the database eg... MDxwalk.ingest(ourContext, item, descMD.get(0)); Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh

[Dspace-devel] Performance tests

2010-09-14 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi Pere, I remember you asked about getting feedback for the performance tests so here is some. I am consistently failing these two tests without having made any changes to the code being tested. I've raised a Jira issue http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-670. I'll happily change the tests

Re: [Dspace-devel] Unit tests failures

2010-09-02 Thread TAYLOR Robin
of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6513808 -Original Message- From: araco...@gmail.com [mailto:araco...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Pere Villega Sent: 02 September 2010 00:42 To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: Tim Donohue; dspace-devel Developers; Stuart Lewis Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] Unit tests failures

Re: [Dspace-devel] Unit tests failures

2010-08-31 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Villega Sent: 30 August 2010 18:02 To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: Tim Donohue; dspace-devel Developers Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] Unit tests failures Hi, I'll check the issues :) Can't assure I'll do it today, but ASAP. Cheers, Pere On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:07 PM, TAYLOR Robin

[Dspace-devel] Unit tests failures

2010-08-30 Thread TAYLOR Robin
I'm getting the following failures in the unit tests and wondered if anyone had already fixed them. I'm being lazy here so if I don't get any replies then I'll get my finger out and investigate. Cheers, Robin. Results : Tests in error: testEquals(org.dspace.content.CommunityTest)

Re: [Dspace-devel] Unit tests failures

2010-08-30 Thread TAYLOR Robin
[mailto:tdono...@duraspace.org] Sent: 30 August 2010 15:44 To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: dspace-devel Developers; Pere Villega Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] Unit tests failures Hi Robin all, I actually get different results as Robin when I run the following from [dspace-src]/dspace-test/ mvn package

[Dspace-devel] Unit tests

2010-08-13 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Just checked out the trunk with the Unit Testing stuff in it, love it ! However, I get the following error 2010-08-13 10:52:12,327 ERROR org.dspace.event.BasicDispatcher @ Consumer(search).consume threw: java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException at

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace GSoC REST API project status?

2010-08-11 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi Tim, I have some concerns about this approach. I have been working recently with a company called Atira who, on the basis of the documentation, chose to make use of the LNI for a particular project. Having started down that road they discovered that the documentation was more comprehensive

[Dspace-devel] DCDate issues

2010-08-08 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Spotted some more DCDate activity in Jira yesterday. I have a new version of DCDate but I'm on holiday for a couple of weeks so I'd be grateful if people would assign any date related issues to me in my absence. Thanks, Robin. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace GSoC 'testing' project

2010-08-02 Thread TAYLOR Robin
i) Should the tests run automatically every time the code is packaged? - Maven tries to run tests when the 'mvn package' command is given. Whilst this is a good thing to do (as it highlights any errors that are present in that build), it does add an extra minute to the build time.

Re: [Dspace-devel] [Dspace-tech] DSpace GSoC 'testing' project

2010-08-02 Thread TAYLOR Robin
I'm too suggestible, I always agree with the last emailer, however... So, in theory, I completely agree with Robin Andrew's points that it should run every time you build DSpace. However, in practice, I'd have to disagree -- I wouldn't want every person installing DSpace to have to wait

Re: [Dspace-devel] July 28 - Special Topic Mtg on GSoC Project Merging Trunk Mgmt

2010-07-27 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Just my tuppence worth... If there is a problem then I don't think it will be with allowing the students to commit their code. I doubt they are any more likely to make a mess of it than I would be and any big mistake is easily spotted and easily corrected as you say. The problem would be code

Re: [Dspace-devel] Location of text content.

2010-07-22 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi Paul, You are looking for a file called Messages.properties. It lives in dspace-api/src/main/resources, but you may want to copy it to dspace/modules/jspui/src/main/resources and use that as an overlay version leaving the original intact. Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library

[Dspace-devel] LNI and the REST interface

2010-07-20 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi, I have recently been working with a company called Atira that supply a CRIS called Pure that has had some take up here in the UK. They had a need to interface with DSpace and on the basis of the LNI documentation decided that it would be an appropriate mechanism. Unfortunately the

Re: [Dspace-devel] Concerns about Java packages used by Services Framework API

2010-06-09 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi Tim, Well spotted. Seems a no-brainer to me now you point it out. Cheers. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6513808 -Original Message- From: Tim Donohue [mailto:tdono...@duraspace.org] Sent: 08 June 2010 18:02 To: dspace-devel Subject:

[Dspace-devel] Jira workflow etc

2010-05-13 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Following on from the developer-meeting discussion about Jira workflow and best practices here are a few thoughts:- The default workflow can be seen here - http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/v3.13/default_workflow.html. It does appear to be possible to customise the default workflow

Re: [Dspace-devel] DCDate conversation

2010-05-03 Thread TAYLOR Robin
! For my part I agree. I personally wont have time to rewrite the class and test it properly pre-1.6.1. Cheers. Cheers, Kim -Original Message- From: Mark Diggory [mailto:mdigg...@atmire.com] Sent: Friday, 30 April 2010 3:38 a.m. To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: dspace-devel

[Dspace-devel] DCDate conversation

2010-04-29 Thread TAYLOR Robin
I hope nobody minds but I'm interested in continuing the conversation that I was only able to pay partial attention to in yesterday's developer meeting http://duraspace.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2010-04-28. Am I correct in understanding that we would be looking to replace the current

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace Developers IRC meeting April 28, 2010 20:00 UTC

2010-04-28 Thread TAYLOR Robin
I may be a little bit late for tonights meeting so here are my thoughts concerning DCDate (cut and pasted from earlier email conversation)... Hi Kim, I noticed another date related bug raised by Claudia today. It may be that its just a case of ironing out these bugs and then everything will

Re: [Dspace-devel] DSpace Functional Tests?

2010-04-06 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi Scott/Tim, The guys at Enovation recently submitted a number of patches related testing (http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-532). It would be useful if we could at least group these tickets somehow. Any ideas ? Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131

[Dspace-devel] Dspace Services source code

2010-03-22 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi, I was looking at the 1.6 source code distribution recently and trying to find my way through the Dspace Services stuff. I found it a frustration that the source code was not included. I was wondering if it would be possible to include it in future, or would that be a daft thing to do ?

Re: [Dspace-devel] Dspace Services source code

2010-03-22 Thread TAYLOR Robin
...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mark Diggory Sent: 22 March 2010 16:17 To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] Dspace Services source code The source code is present in both the svn repository and the maven repository. Utilizing any IDE like Eclipse or IDEA

Re: [Dspace-devel] RE. Machine readable citations and metadata encodings

2010-01-28 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6513808 -Original Message- From: Graham Triggs [mailto:grahamtri...@gmail.com] Sent: 28 January 2010 13:20 To: TAYLOR Robin Cc: dspace-devel Subject: Re: [Dspace-devel] RE. Machine readable citations and metadata encodings

[Dspace-devel] Where to put code for sharing ?

2010-01-08 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Can anyone point me in the right direction ? I have some code for an Item Type based submission process that I would like to make available for sharing. Is there a suitable home for such things ? Thanks, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6513808 -- The