Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
Deliverable 3 of the working group is to create the criteria for evaluation of the pilots. Everyone is welcome to help draw up the criteria, if you would like to do so please contact the DSpace UI Working Group members or come along to the next meeting.
This page is a work in progress.
Tasks recommended to pilot evaluators
- Execute tasks on pilot server (all evaluators)
- Download and deploy pilot application (sys admin, developers)
- Add branding to pilot application (developers)
- Add custom feature/modification to pilot application (developer)
Functional Criteria
Evaluate how well the the pilot met the [link to pilot application expectations and requirements]. This section will be informed by the work of the pilot application expectations team.
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UI Customization Criteria
The design of the pilot application is not intended to be a criteria for evaluation.
- Ability to rearrange application components on a page
- Ability to apply custom branding
- Complexity required to brand a site
- Complexity required to style a community/collection
Framework Criteria
- Deployment/build/configuration complexity
- Documentation/tutorial availability
- Ease of learning framework
- Simplicity of template/theme framework for non-developers
- Size of framework community
- Perceived trajectory (growth) of framework community