Greenstone Blog

Anu’s entry for the week ending 2 Dec 2011

ak19 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:38:46 +0000

Continued on the problem that I thought had been almost resolved last week: getting the batch files in GS2 to handle not only spaces but also brackets in the Greenstone filepaths. The batch files were done, but the perl code needed some correcting too. After inspecting many files in order to see whether […]

Anu’s entry for week ending 26 Nov 2011

ak19 — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:01:49 +0000

For the last two weeks, I was mainly learning the practical side of how to handle the Greenstone translations. Mainly how to generate the spreadsheets for translators to use, though there was also the opportunity for learning to handle translated spreadsheets. Next to that, there were some questions on the mailing list that I had […]

Anu’s blog entry for the week ending 11 Nov 2011

ak19 — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:01:22 +0000

As several people had encountered issues in the recent 2.85 release, a lot of this week was spent looking at them so that we can get 2.86 out as soon as possible.
The bugs and oversights are not fatal and work-arounds are possible:
1) If you don’t have the PDF-box extension for Greenstone installed already, GLI will […]

Official Greenstone 2.85 released!

ak19 — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:30:35 +0000

At last, we did it. After a lot of testing, bug discovery and fixing, we’ve finally released Greenstone 2.85. It should be much improved from 2.84. There were also some last minute changes from release candidate version 2.
Please do grab a binary for your operating system by visiting the download page at http://www.greenstone.org/download and start […]

Greenstone 2.85rc2 (release candidate 2) released

ak19 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:31:30 +0000

There was a lot of testing going on in the last 2 months, and I forgot all about writing blog entries.
The first stage of testing was to go through the Greenstone tutorials on Windows (Vista), Linux (Ubuntu) and Mac (Leopard). Some bugs were discovered and fixed, and after that RC1 of GS2.85 could be released.
Thereafter, […]

Sam’s Greenstone Blog 3/10/2011

sjm84 — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:58:15 +0000

Those who are eagerly awaiting the release of the final version of 2.85 will not have to wait much longer. Anu has been working hard testing it on each of the platforms we support and for the most part things are looking good. Any assistance in testing is always greatly appreciated and if you would […]

Sam’s Greenstone Blog 26/9/2011

sjm84 — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:50:48 +0000

Hello again, sorry about the big delay between posts, things have been pretty busy here recently and remembering to write this often slips my mind.
We’ve released our first release candidate for 2.85 so please try it out and let us know if there are any issues. You can find it at http://www.greenstone.org/snapshots.
The front-end for the […]

Anu’s entry for the month of Aug 2011

ak19 — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:22:38 +0000

It’s been about 4 weeks since I wrote an entry. In the meantime we’ve been tidying up the last of the To Do list items for the upcoming GS2 release and several of the To Do list items for the GS3 release. Sam is now hard working on the GS3 interface alongside his other work […]

Anu’s entry for 25-29 July

ak19 — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:18:21 +0000

Last week started off with requiring fixes to a bug introduced during recent GS3 code changes: suddenly metadata and titles were no longer being retrieved for normal search and browse operations. Then Sam’s recent improvement to GS3’s GLI by starting the tomcat server upon GLI startup was expanded to also stop the tomcat server on […]

Sam’s Greenstone Blog 27/7/2011

sjm84 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:38:48 +0000

It’s been a while since I last wrote, so I’ll fill you all in on what has been happening.
We have been working fairly solidly on some improvements for 2.85. One thing we have been aiming to do is improve the use of PDF files with complex embedded metadata. We have added several options to the […]