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The Designing a Migration Path grant work continued in February with the second phase of the project. The team worked on profiling a number of Fedora 3.x repositories to determine commonalities and differences with regard to migrations to the latest version of Fedora. We also tested the draft survey using cognitive interviews with advisory board members, which will help us complete the final version. At the same time, we've also been drafting documents on the Fedora API specification and the Oxford Common File Layout with regard to their impact on repository migrations. Details will be made available on the wiki as these tasks are completed.

Keep an eye on this newsletter for monthly updates on our progress.

Software development 

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Community-driven Activity

Fedora

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6.0 Design Meeting

Members of the Fedora committers team met in person to design Fedora 6.0. This next release will focus on:

1. Compliance with the Oxford Common File Layout
   1. Including transparency and support for rebuilding the repository from the files on disk
2. Better performance and scale
3. Minimizing change to the user via the API

The design also includes a simple query service and support for migrations from earlier versions of Fedora. More details can be found on the wiki.

The Proposed Recommendation of the Fedora API Specification is still available for public review.

This release should be considered stable. No other updates are expected before the official 1.0 Recommendation.

Minimum requirements for releasing the 1.0 Recommendation include:

• Specification compliance test suite
• Two or more implementations of the specification
• No unresolved, outstanding critical issues, as defined by the specification editors

Please contact the Fedora Community or Fedora Specification Editors with any general comments. Any comments on details of the specification, itself, should be posted as GitHub issues.

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Fedora 5.0.2 Release

This release is a backwards compatible (with 5.0.0) bugfix release. It neither adds nor removes features.

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Oxford Common File Layout

A 0.2 (BetaAlpha) release of the OCFL spec was recently announced. You are invited to provide feedback, which will be discussed on future community calls.

The most recent OCFL community call took place on Wednesday, February March 13. Notes and audio are available online. This call included community updates from the Fedora project, Oxford, and Data Futures, updates from three OCFL client librariesJohns Hopkins, and opportunities to engage with adjacent initiatives. The next community call takes place on Wednesday, March 13 at 11am EThelp with Beta issues. Please join the ocfl-community mailing list for further updates.

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If you have not already joined the fedora-project Slack workspace please start by visiting the self-registration form. Come join the conversation!

Upcoming Events

CNI

Representatives from CNI member organizations gather twice annually to explore new technologies, content, and applications; to further collaboration; to analyze technology policy issues, and to catalyze the development and deployment of new projects. The next CNI Spring Membership Meeting will take place April 8-9 in St. Louis, MO. The agenda will include presentations from both Fedora and OCFL representatives. Details can be found on the CNI website.

ACRL

The next ACRL conference takes place April 10-13 in Cleveland, OH. Fedora Tech Lead Danny Bernstein will deliver an introductory Fedora workshop at the conference on Friday, April 12. Please register in advance to attend.