eprints_tech messages

From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:39:41 +0100

*** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
*** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/

Hi everybody! I've placed a beta of 3.0.1 on files.eprints.org.

http://files.eprints.org/245/

It's probably fine, but it's Friday. Friday the 13th, no less. I've 
upgraded the server which runs demoprints3.eprints.org and 
files.eprints.org and all seems well, and it passed my basic testing 
harness.

It fixes a bunch of issues. Most notably it speeds up the indexer and 
sorts out the bugs in full text searching.

We may make another 3.0 series release, but don't plan to make a 
new-features release for some time. Please send any reports to the list 
+ive or -ive about this release. Thanks

Some of the fixes:

 * Fixed slow rendering of "profile" page.
 * Fixed bugs with editorial restrictions.
 * Cookie values are now randomised when you logout/login again.
 * Fixed bugs with full-text indexing.
 * Fixed speed problems in indexer.
 * Fixed incorrectly ordered subjects.
 * Improved some help text.
 * Added a few missing phrases.
 * Fixed some spelling mistakes.
 * epadmin now obeys groupid from SystemSettings
 * Upload component: if there is only one document, then it is ↵
"unrolled"
    in the interface - saves a click.
 * Only .xml files are now parsed in phrases directories.
 * Fixed bug with 404 pages coming back blank, some of the time.
 * Fixed bug where after removing a user you got taken to an undefined
    screen.
 * Added some better error reporting to XML import. Now spots and warns
    if you pass v2 XML to a v3 importer.
 * Improved invocation of external programs.


-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg

Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/

Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton. 

From: "Joe Roback" <robackja AT cs.arizona.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:34:50 -0700

*** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
*** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/

Hello Chris.

Nice changelog for EP-3.0.1

You have any update on improvements to the migration toolkit? Anita
and I here at DLIST would love to do more EP3 testing, but the
migration scripts are just too buggy (my previous posts to the list)
and testing on a empty repository doesn't provide as much feedback, as
say a full one. :)

Not meaning to be demanding or anything, just curious.

cheers,
joe

On 4/13/07, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> *** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/
>
> Hi everybody! I've placed a beta of 3.0.1 on files.eprints.org.
>
> http://files.eprints.org/245/
>
> It's probably fine, but it's Friday. Friday the 13th, no less. I've
> upgraded the server which runs demoprints3.eprints.org and
> files.eprints.org and all seems well, and it passed my basic testing
> harness.
>
> It fixes a bunch of issues. Most notably it speeds up the indexer and
> sorts out the bugs in full text searching.
>
> We may make another 3.0 series release, but don't plan to make a
> new-features release for some time. Please send any reports to the list
> +ive or -ive about this release. Thanks
>
> Some of the fixes:
>
>  * Fixed slow rendering of "profile" page.
>  * Fixed bugs with editorial restrictions.
>  * Cookie values are now randomised when you logout/login again.
>  * Fixed bugs with full-text indexing.
>  * Fixed speed problems in indexer.
>  * Fixed incorrectly ordered subjects.
>  * Improved some help text.
>  * Added a few missing phrases.
>  * Fixed some spelling mistakes.
>  * epadmin now obeys groupid from SystemSettings
>  * Upload component: if there is only one document, then it is ↵
"unrolled"
>     in the interface - saves a click.
>  * Only .xml files are now parsed in phrases directories.
>  * Fixed bug with 404 pages coming back blank, some of the time.
>  * Fixed bug where after removing a user you got taken to an undefined
>     screen.
>  * Added some better error reporting to XML import. Now spots and warns
>     if you pass v2 XML to a v3 importer.
>  * Improved invocation of external programs.
>
>
> --
> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg
>
> Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
>
> Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
> University of Southampton.
>
>

From: "Glenn Johnson" <gjohnson AT srrc.ars.usda.gov>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:11:13 -0500

*** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
*** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/

Thanks for the update. I am still in the testing/learning phase so am not ↵
familiar with upgrading an eprints installation. I have some customizations ↵
that I have put in that I would like to remain in place. The ↵
"upgrading" link on the Wiki leads to a blank page, so what is the ↵
process for doing an update? A link would be fine.

Thanks.

--
Glenn Johnson

>>> cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk 04/13/07 11:39AM >>>
Hi everybody! I've placed a beta of 3.0.1 on files.eprints.org.

From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:50:40 +0100

*** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
*** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/

I'm planning to migrate eprints.ecs soon which is a big complex eprints 
set up which should help me sort out the migration toolkit.

I'm aware I've been tardy on this, but getting a less buggy version of 
3.0 has been my priority.

Joe Roback wrote:
> *** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/
>
> Hello Chris.
>
> Nice changelog for EP-3.0.1
>
> You have any update on improvements to the migration toolkit? Anita
> and I here at DLIST would love to do more EP3 testing, but the
> migration scripts are just too buggy (my previous posts to the list)
> and testing on a empty repository doesn't provide as much feedback, as
> say a full one. :)
>
> Not meaning to be demanding or anything, just curious.
>
> cheers,
> joe
>
> On 4/13/07, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> *** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
>> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/
>>
>> Hi everybody! I've placed a beta of 3.0.1 on files.eprints.org.
>>
>> http://files.eprints.org/245/
>>
>> It's probably fine, but it's Friday. Friday the 13th, no less. I've
>> upgraded the server which runs demoprints3.eprints.org and
>> files.eprints.org and all seems well, and it passed my basic testing
>> harness.
>>
>> It fixes a bunch of issues. Most notably it speeds up the indexer and
>> sorts out the bugs in full text searching.
>>
>> We may make another 3.0 series release, but don't plan to make a
>> new-features release for some time. Please send any reports to the ↵
list
>> +ive or -ive about this release. Thanks
>>
>> Some of the fixes:
>>
>>  * Fixed slow rendering of "profile" page.
>>  * Fixed bugs with editorial restrictions.
>>  * Cookie values are now randomised when you logout/login again.
>>  * Fixed bugs with full-text indexing.
>>  * Fixed speed problems in indexer.
>>  * Fixed incorrectly ordered subjects.
>>  * Improved some help text.
>>  * Added a few missing phrases.
>>  * Fixed some spelling mistakes.
>>  * epadmin now obeys groupid from SystemSettings
>>  * Upload component: if there is only one document, then it is 
>> "unrolled"
>>     in the interface - saves a click.
>>  * Only .xml files are now parsed in phrases directories.
>>  * Fixed bug with 404 pages coming back blank, some of the time.
>>  * Fixed bug where after removing a user you got taken to an undefined
>>     screen.
>>  * Added some better error reporting to XML import. Now spots and ↵
warns
>>     if you pass v2 XML to a v3 importer.
>>  * Improved invocation of external programs.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg
>>
>> Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
>>
>> Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
>> University of Southampton.
>>
>>
>

-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg

Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/

Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton. 

From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:51:53 +0100

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Upgrading 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 is very easy - just run configure with the 
--prefix set to the location of the current repo. It'll upgrade the software

then run

epadmin upgrade REPOID

for each repository to update the database. Normally minor updates would 
not update the db at all. In this case all it does is add an SQL index 
to make things go faster.

Glenn Johnson wrote:
> *** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/
>
> Thanks for the update. I am still in the testing/learning phase so am not ↵
familiar with upgrading an eprints installation. I have some customizations ↵
that I have put in that I would like to remain in place. The ↵
"upgrading" link on the Wiki leads to a blank page, so what is the ↵
process for doing an update? A link would be fine.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Glenn Johnson
>
>   
>>>> cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk 04/13/07 11:39AM >>>
>>>>         
> Hi everybody! I've placed a beta of 3.0.1 on files.eprints.org.
>
>
>
>
>   

-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg

Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/

Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton. 


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From: "Matthew Brady" <bradym AT usq.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:54:02 +1000

*** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
*** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/

Hi Chris,

Has there been any progress on the migration toolkit?  
How did your migration of eprints.ecs go? 

As with Joe, migration issues are hindering some of our
testing/acceptance procedures.  Some issues (eg Indexing) cant be found
without having substantial data in the system.

Cheers
Matt.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-eprints-tech AT ecs.soton.ac.uk
[mailto:owner-eprints-tech AT ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Christopher
Gutteridge
Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2007 3:51 AM
To: EPrints.org Technical List
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] 3.0.1!

*** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
*** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/

I'm planning to migrate eprints.ecs soon which is a big complex eprints
set up which should help me sort out the migration toolkit.

I'm aware I've been tardy on this, but getting a less buggy version of
3.0 has been my priority.

Joe Roback wrote:
> *** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/
>
> Hello Chris.
>
> Nice changelog for EP-3.0.1
>
> You have any update on improvements to the migration toolkit? Anita 
> and I here at DLIST would love to do more EP3 testing, but the 
> migration scripts are just too buggy (my previous posts to the list) 
> and testing on a empty repository doesn't provide as much feedback, as

> say a full one. :)
>
> Not meaning to be demanding or anything, just curious.
>
> cheers,
> joe
>
> On 4/13/07, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> *** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
>> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/
>>
>> Hi everybody! I've placed a beta of 3.0.1 on files.eprints.org.
>>
>> http://files.eprints.org/245/
>>
>> It's probably fine, but it's Friday. Friday the 13th, no less. I've 
>> upgraded the server which runs demoprints3.eprints.org and 
>> files.eprints.org and all seems well, and it passed my basic testing 
>> harness.
>>
>> It fixes a bunch of issues. Most notably it speeds up the indexer and

>> sorts out the bugs in full text searching.
>>
>> We may make another 3.0 series release, but don't plan to make a 
>> new-features release for some time. Please send any reports to the 
>> list
>> +ive or -ive about this release. Thanks
>>
>> Some of the fixes:
>>
>>  * Fixed slow rendering of "profile" page.
>>  * Fixed bugs with editorial restrictions.
>>  * Cookie values are now randomised when you logout/login again.
>>  * Fixed bugs with full-text indexing.
>>  * Fixed speed problems in indexer.
>>  * Fixed incorrectly ordered subjects.
>>  * Improved some help text.
>>  * Added a few missing phrases.
>>  * Fixed some spelling mistakes.
>>  * epadmin now obeys groupid from SystemSettings
>>  * Upload component: if there is only one document, then it is 
>> "unrolled"
>>     in the interface - saves a click.
>>  * Only .xml files are now parsed in phrases directories.
>>  * Fixed bug with 404 pages coming back blank, some of the time.
>>  * Fixed bug where after removing a user you got taken to an
undefined
>>     screen.
>>  * Added some better error reporting to XML import. Now spots and
warns
>>     if you pass v2 XML to a v3 importer.
>>  * Improved invocation of external programs.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg
>>
>> Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
>>
>> Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science, 
>> University of Southampton.
>>
>>
>

--
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg

Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/

Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton. 


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From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:58:21 +0100

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
I'm aware this is taking longer than hoped. We've been swamped.

eprints.soton.ac.uk have been migrating, hopefully they will be feeding 
back into the toolkit.


Matthew Brady wrote:
> *** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Has there been any progress on the migration toolkit?  
> How did your migration of eprints.ecs go? 
>
> As with Joe, migration issues are hindering some of our
> testing/acceptance procedures.  Some issues (eg Indexing) cant be found
> without having substantial data in the system.
>
> Cheers
> Matt.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-eprints-tech AT ecs.soton.ac.uk
> [mailto:owner-eprints-tech AT ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Christopher
> Gutteridge
> Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2007 3:51 AM
> To: EPrints.org Technical List
> Subject: Re: [EP-tech] 3.0.1!
>
> *** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/
>
> I'm planning to migrate eprints.ecs soon which is a big complex eprints
> set up which should help me sort out the migration toolkit.
>
> I'm aware I've been tardy on this, but getting a less buggy version of
> 3.0 has been my priority.
>
> Joe Roback wrote:
>   
>> *** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
>> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/
>>
>> Hello Chris.
>>
>> Nice changelog for EP-3.0.1
>>
>> You have any update on improvements to the migration toolkit? Anita 
>> and I here at DLIST would love to do more EP3 testing, but the 
>> migration scripts are just too buggy (my previous posts to the list) 
>> and testing on a empty repository doesn't provide as much feedback, as
>>     
>
>   
>> say a full one. :)
>>
>> Not meaning to be demanding or anything, just curious.
>>
>> cheers,
>> joe
>>
>> On 4/13/07, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk> ↵
wrote:
>>     
>>> *** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
>>> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/
>>>
>>> Hi everybody! I've placed a beta of 3.0.1 on files.eprints.org.
>>>
>>> http://files.eprints.org/245/
>>>
>>> It's probably fine, but it's Friday. Friday the 13th, no less. ↵
I've 
>>> upgraded the server which runs demoprints3.eprints.org and 
>>> files.eprints.org and all seems well, and it passed my basic ↵
testing 
>>> harness.
>>>
>>> It fixes a bunch of issues. Most notably it speeds up the indexer ↵
and
>>>       
>
>   
>>> sorts out the bugs in full text searching.
>>>
>>> We may make another 3.0 series release, but don't plan to make a 
>>> new-features release for some time. Please send any reports to the ↵

>>> list
>>> +ive or -ive about this release. Thanks
>>>
>>> Some of the fixes:
>>>
>>>  * Fixed slow rendering of "profile" page.
>>>  * Fixed bugs with editorial restrictions.
>>>  * Cookie values are now randomised when you logout/login again.
>>>  * Fixed bugs with full-text indexing.
>>>  * Fixed speed problems in indexer.
>>>  * Fixed incorrectly ordered subjects.
>>>  * Improved some help text.
>>>  * Added a few missing phrases.
>>>  * Fixed some spelling mistakes.
>>>  * epadmin now obeys groupid from SystemSettings
>>>  * Upload component: if there is only one document, then it is 
>>> "unrolled"
>>>     in the interface - saves a click.
>>>  * Only .xml files are now parsed in phrases directories.
>>>  * Fixed bug with 404 pages coming back blank, some of the time.
>>>  * Fixed bug where after removing a user you got taken to an
>>>       
> undefined
>   
>>>     screen.
>>>  * Added some better error reporting to XML import. Now spots and
>>>       
> warns
>   
>>>     if you pass v2 XML to a v3 importer.
>>>  * Improved invocation of external programs.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg
>>>
>>> Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
>>>
>>> Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science, 
>>> University of Southampton.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>
> --
> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg
>
> Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
>
> Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
> University of Southampton. 
>
>
> This email (including any attached files) is confidential and is for the
> intended recipient(s) only.  If you received this email by mistake,
> please, as a courtesy, tell the sender, then delete this email.
>
> The views and opinions are the originator's and do not necessarily
> reflect those of the University of Southern Queensland.  Although all
> reasonable precautions were taken to ensure that this email contained no
> viruses at the time it was sent we accept no liability for any losses
> arising from its receipt.
>
> The University of Southern Queensland is a registered provider of
> education with the Australian Government (CRICOS Institution Code No's.
> QLD 00244B / NSW 02225M)
>
>
>
>   

-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg

Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/

Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton. 


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