Re: [Dspace-devel] Asynchronous release and other related matters

2011-07-17 Thread Mark Diggory
An initial barebones prototype of whats being discussed, just needs to be tuned up a bit more to create the appropriate source and release trees. http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/branches/dspace-async-release/dspace-release/ This is associated with the following ticket

Re: [Dspace-devel] Asynchronous release and other related matters

2011-07-15 Thread Robin Taylor
Hi all, The more I think about it the less frightened I am becoming. If we could include the safety net of a source release then that would sway it for me. Cheers, Robin. On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 19:26 +0100, Tim Donohue wrote: Thanks for doing this Robin! I'll add a few more thoughts in

[Dspace-devel] Asynchronous release and other related matters

2011-07-14 Thread Robin Taylor
Hi all, A large portion of yesterdays meeting ended up being a discussion on async releases. Mark (Diggory) has for some time been strongly advocating this approach and has written extensively on the subject both on the wiki and in Jira. I think it is incumbent on us all to consider his arguments

Re: [Dspace-devel] Asynchronous release and other related matters

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Diggory
Robin, Thank you for a great introduction. I'll inject just a few comments inline. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Robin Taylor robin.tay...@ed.ac.uk wrote: Hi all, A large portion of yesterdays meeting ended up being a discussion on async releases. Mark (Diggory) has for some time been

Re: [Dspace-devel] Asynchronous release and other related matters

2011-07-14 Thread Tim Donohue
Thanks for doing this Robin! I'll add a few more thoughts in here.. On 7/14/2011 10:41 AM, Mark Diggory wrote: Robin, Thank you for a great introduction. I'll inject just a few comments inline. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Robin Taylorrobin.tay...@ed.ac.uk wrote: Hi all, A large

Re: [Dspace-devel] Asynchronous release and other related matters

2011-07-14 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 08:41:12AM -0700, Mark Diggory wrote: [snip] At this time there are two approachs to customize your DSpace build. (1) use the source distro and change all the files you want and rebuild the entire sourcetree Pro: you can navigate to exactly the source that is being