News from Oct 03, 2008

Here's what I've been up to lately:

• As a presenter at the SPARC conference innovation fair, I was asked to post a graphic about my topic, which I've done here: SPARC Post. The idea is similar to FedoraShare, but using a conference organizer as an example.
• Worked on FCREPO-241 which is an issue with the REST API not correctly prompting for authentication. The REST API, up to this point, has not been included in the servlet filtering chain which allows other Fedora interfaces to authenticate users. With my updates there is now an additional filter which determines whether a REST API method is part of API-A or API-M, then passes the request along to the authentication filter if necessary. Some testing still needs to be done here, but my goal is to get this done in time for the 3.1 release.
• Talked with a couple folks at Northwestern University about a potential JCR interface implementation for Fedora which looks promising.
• Updated the SVN properties for all .bat and .sh files in trunk and GSearch. This should resolve the issue that has come up several times now of shell scripts having incorrect line terminators. This also closes FCREPO-219.
• Reviewed Eddie's work on FCREPO-215, FCREPO-223, and FCREPO-236.
• Reviewed Chris' work on FCREPO-239, FCREPO-227, and FCREPO-252.
• Finished up the migration of tasks from SourceForge to Jira. Since the SourceForge export file did not actually include all of the task information (and an issue request received no attention) I had to break down and write the code necessary to retrieve the missing bits from each task page on the SourceForge site. It did work out fine, however, so we are now moved completely over to Jira for issue tracking.
• Prepared a bit for meetings on Monday and Tuesday with DSpace since my time spent with DSpace so far has been limited.