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Andrew: Would it be useful to have a small utility for people to do migration?
Bethany: Maybe more useful would be an about page that talks about the backup and restore, what happens (it's two http requests, you could wrap it in script). More documentation would be helpful.Not sure if a script would be useful, but maybe just flesh out the fcr:backup/restore page a bit more?
Andrew: Considering a RC candidate would require a release manager -- who can do it? Adam?
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Bethany: Aaron Coburn and I've been talking about gradle and using it the possibility of gradle in some projects in fcrepo, as replacement for -exts, instead of Maven. It does same thing as Maven, pckgs things. We want to see what the community thinks about some projects in fcrepo-exts using gradle.
general: .. using Ruby language, patch Gradle uses Groovy language, Jared notes that Aaron Coburn has seen that pax exam tests can be done but are more difficult.
Andrew: First we need to make sure Gradle does all that Maven does .
Bethany: Aaron's question is using gradle in fcrepo but not force it on core stuff yet,
Andrew: The point still holds, does it do what Maven does.
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and that it won't impact fcrepo in some unknown way, by having some projects in fcrepo-exts using it.
Adam: Let's continue Gradle conversation next week, tell Aaron it received a thunderous 'maybe'.
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