This is the June 2015 edition of the Fedora Newsletter. This newsletter summarizes the most significant activities within the Fedora community over the last month.
Community discussion
- <highlights from the mailing list>
Software development
Fedora 3 to 4 Upgration
Since the release of Fedora 4.0 in November of 2014, our top priority has been supporting upgrations (software upgrade + content migration) from Fedora 3 to 4. To this end, four institutions participated in a successful pilot program to plan and implement upgrations under a variety of scenarios. These pilot projects contributed to the development of two migration tools; migration-utils (a FOXML-based utility) and fedora-migrate (a Ruby gem primarily used by Hydra implementations). Both us these utilities are ready for community testing and feedback.
New Features
In late May, Andrew Woods started a mailing list thread on post-4.2.0 Fedora feature development. The top 3 features on the roadmap were:
- WebAccessControl
- Asynchronous Storage
- Transparent filesystem
Community members were asked to voice interest in one or more of these features, and to indicate what resources (e.g. development, use cases, testing/validation) they could put towards development. Based on the responses, all three features are important enough for Fedora stakeholders to commit resources toward, and by late June we had held our first planning call for the WebAccessControl authorization delegate. This feature will be designed, developed, and tested by the Fedora community over the next few weeks.
Islandora/F4 integration update
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Conferences and events
Open Repositories
- Open Repositories
- Fedora 4 workshop
- Fedora presentations
- Fedora Interest Group track
Upcoming
- Islandora conference
- Registration open for Fedora Camp
- Registration open for DC Area Fedora User Group meeting
