[Dspace-general] FW: DSpace 1.5 training / online documentation

[MacKenzie Smith]

Hi Laurence,

It was my understanding that the DSpace Foundation is working on 
documentation for the 1.5 release, including installation and upgrade 
instructions. I'm not sure about the status of that work, but perhaps we 
can get an update from Michele Kimpton?

MacKenzie

> Dear Dspace community,
>
> I sincerely have to agree with Dr Kataria. I am very dis-hearted by 
> the fact that so much have been going with the new release of Dspace 
> 1.5, but one thing has been seriously lacking. There aren’t any proper 
> installation guides available for 1.5, anywhere!! Even the dspace web 
> site still points to version 1.4 only.
>
> We would like to get settled in on the new 1.5 version asap, but get 
> stuck with the maven part of the installation, and that is basically 
> that…. It simply doesn’t want to install – so what do I do now? IRC 
> channel is very quiet, possible because of the time zone. I have 
> connected directly through ADSL, but still no go. The release notes 
> only outlines the steps, but no details on trouble shooting steps are 
> provided. The dspace.org website install notes haven’t been updated 
> yet. I cry out to the mountains….
>
> Please see this email as an indication that people out there seriously 
> want to use the system, test it, install it, and try it out. BUT with 
> new features and very little in available documentation or online 
> help, it just makes it very, very hard. Conferences are great, but 
> only a few will be able to attend and benefit. Somebody, please make 
> documentation available online.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Laurence
>
-- 
MacKenzie Smith
Associate Director for Technology
MIT Libraries