RE: lib-ir: dspace bugs

["JQ Johnson" <jqj@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

I haven't looked too closely at these.

>1.      At the moment you can't submit anything to any collection,
>except if you're the administrator, even if you have explicitly set the
>permissions (I believe this has been noted already).

Believed to be fixed.

>2.      If you don't fill in the Introductory text when creating
>communities or collections, it is assigned to "null", which then
>appears on the front page when you view that collection.

Still outstanding

>3.      There are no warnings generated when you fail to fill in a
>required field (eg Author or Title), the page simply doesn't submit.
>
>4.      DSpace administrators may set up workflows such that they
>can submit and approve their own work.

Not a bug.  Administrators are all-powerful.

>5.      In DSpace v1.0.1 it was possible to alter permissions whilst a
>submission was in progress such that write permission was
>granted at the start, but is denied at the end.

I don't understand this one.

>6.      It is not possible to delete collections.

Possibly fixed, but I haven't tested.

>7.      Create Item Template in Create Collections does not work - an
>error is generated, but something is written into the database as
>the collection will then claim that it has an item template.

Still outstanding?

>8.      Adding an EPerson with the same email address as a current
>EPerson creates a new account with the name newuser(x) (x =
>number).  It does not alert the user to a problem.

Part of a much bigger problem, that there is currently no authentication
when someone creates a new ID.

>9.      It is possible to bypass the restriction on creating multiple
>accounts for yourself if you are the DSpace administrator, by
>making up email addresses that will bounce the token email back
>to you, which you can then use to login as someone else.

Not a bug.

>Features:

>5.      It would be better if collections that you are not permitted to
>submit to do not appear in the select box of collections at the start
>of the submission process, rather than one's you are not permitted
>to use rejecting you on selection.

Note that this only applies on the My DSpace page, and not when submitting
using the approach Carol documents.