Re: [Dspace-devel] New Developer

2011-11-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
A suggestion: since the DSpace API is rather heavy and takes a while to start, folks who have many accounts to add would probably appreciate the option to provide a file of identity records, rather than start bin/dspace 100 times in a row. If the file looked something like: add-user -u USERID

Re: [Dspace-devel] New Developer

2011-11-28 Thread Stuart Lewis
Hi Eric, I've assigned the ticket in JIRA to myself, as we are only able to assign them to committers, but have commented that you are working on it, not myself. You'll find that the current CreateAdministrator.java class already interacts with the command line using the Apache Commons CLI libr

Re: [Dspace-devel] New Developer

2011-11-28 Thread Eric Oliver
Thanks, Stuart! I made an account on JIRA, username 'olivere'. I will start delving into the codebase and looking to see where to do some coding and make some code designs. Are there any components that currently interact using the command line, or will I be starting that from scratch? Thank yo

Re: [Dspace-devel] New Developer

2011-11-28 Thread Stuart Lewis
Hi Eric, > Your proposed project actually sounds a lot more interesting -- I would love > to tackle it! I read over some of the coding guidelines, and, just to make > sure, should I be working with the trunk version? I got the latest version of > NetBeans installed, checked out and built the t

Re: [Dspace-devel] New Developer

2011-11-28 Thread Stuart Lewis
Hi Eric, Thanks for getting in touch. DS-722 sounds like an ideal little project, however the JIRA issue gives the solution already, which means this just needs testing, and then committing to the central source code repository by one of the DSpace committers. If you want a project that might

[Dspace-devel] New Developer

2011-11-27 Thread Eric Oliver
Hi, everyone, My name is Eric Oliver, and I am a student at the University of Maryland. I need to contribute to an open source project for class, and I was wondering what sorts small bugs/features are available for development? I saw the JIRA page -- is that kept up to date? If so, I saw a nice