<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>Good news, we're on track for the phase in the beta1 release scheduled for tomorrow. There is one more patch waiting to be applied, the documentation has seen lots of improvements - although there is still more needed. We have had both successful fresh installs and more importantly upgrades from 1.4.2 -> 1.5 -- and the process has been documented. All the major features have been tested so there are no show-stopper bugs for the test-a-thon next week.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I wanted to remind everyone about our beta1 test-a-thon scheduled for next week. I hope as many people as possible will be able to find some time to find a few bugs in the new release. This is a huge release, so there are sure to be plenty to find. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>If you are planning on hosting a test instance so that others can test the DSpace interface could you please send out details on where it will be hosted? Since there are multiple interfaces with this release jspui, and several manakin themes, it would be nice to have a few options. Even if you are not in a position to let others login as administrators just a publicly viewable repository is helpful.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Scott--</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div><div>On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:58 AM, Scott Phillips wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">DSpace Community,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">We have seen lots of progress lately to move us more towards the DSpace 1.5 release but there is still more to do. The major road blocks that have been a challenge to over come with this release is the documentation. Looking over the state of things today, there is still work to be done. Although the basic documentation is present -- a system administrator can follow the directions and install a fresh copy of DSpace -- there is still some work to do documenting the upgrade process.However I do not feel that should prevent us from moving forward at this time. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Our road map for the next release of DSpace is: </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">2/13 -- Release Beta 1</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">2/18 through 2/22 -- DSpace 1.5 test-a-thon</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">3/10 -- Release Beta 2</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">3/24 -- Release DSpace 1.5</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">4/1 -- Open Repositories 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">I very much hope that as many people as possible are able to find some time during the the week of the 18th to give the beta release a test. During this period please help out by testing out the new - and old - features of dspace plus contribute to the available documentation both in the manual and on the wiki.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Scott--</div></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>