Caveat Lector

Last week, I committed to doing a DSpace upgrade on the production server this morning. A couple hours later, I found out I’d be in meetings for a large part of today.

So I was a wee bit nervous coming in to work this morning. (I also walked, because the bus system was on a “modified weekday schedule” due to Columbus Day, which meant my usual morning bus wasn’t running. Good walk, though—40 minutes door-to-door, which was less time than I thought, through pleasant neighborhoods with geese and herons migrating overhead. I may do this more often.)

Inside of fifteen minutes, I had the upgrade up and running, and for my next trick, I finally got up the courage to get rid of the amateurish-looking redirect that had been in front of the repository’s main page. Total downtime: two minutes, maybe, in three short outages spread over maybe eight minutes.

Mua-hahaha. I so rule.

And just to spread the love a little, DSpace’s new cleaner markup makes my re-hack load on upgrade much, much lighter. All I have to hack now are substantive changes, not quote marks. I appreciate it, quite a bit.