Hi BojanWhat are your plans for maintaining the rest project? I'm happy to help out where I can, I'm not a Java programmer by trade but I can have my Java programmers review code and add/update source when/where required.
I understand you've had problems with testing in the past, and while our current rest requirements are certainly not taxing, they should provide a good real-world test of the module as we begin to rely more on rest to interrogate DSpace data. Additionally, our implementations will be released under an open source license so others can build upon our code if they wish (or at least use it as an example and implement their own).
One area I can help with is documentation, whether it is code examples in a wiki or proofing source descriptions.
Cheers Hayden On 26/03/10 03:39, Stuart Lewis wrote:
Hi Bojan,I have tested it and resolved issues/errors found at this time, however, I think this code hasn't been checked or tested extensively by community so this contributed to the fact that the code is not yet included in the distribution. During development we issued several calls on the dev list asking for feature suggestions etc but not much interest has been raised.Unfortunately that is one of the joys / pains of being a community developed open source project. The amount of effort that we have varies considerably over time, as do people's interest. However, a year on, there is a lot more interest from a larger group of people to see a RESTful API for DSpace, so we would love to see it developed to a point where we can include it as part of the core product. So I suspect this year there will likely be a lot more interest from the community and wider mentoring group. We're also likely to request less GSoC students this year, as we recognize that we have perhaps spread ourselves too thinly in the past, and we're actively recruiting more mentors to ensure that there is a small team of mentors for each project rather than just one or two.Anyways, I was thinking to apply to GSoC/DSpace again. If there is interest and need in community (mentors, new ideas wrt additional requirements/changes/...) I could continue with this code or apply for other subproject.Speaking purely for myself, although I'm sure others would agree, we'd love to have you apply again, and carry on with the project. The timing of GSoC is likely going to fit well with our next release (1.7), so we can actively work towards getting the project included as part of that. If the API itself gets finished earlier than the end of GSoC, it would be good to start writing some example applications that make use of the API, or rewrite some current components that would be better broken away from talking to the dspace-api core directly, and go via the API. Thanks, Stuart Lewis IT Innovations Analyst and Developer Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand Ph: 64 9 373-7599 x81928 http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/
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