NetarchiveSuite
External Software Coordinator Role
The External Software Coordinator role contains Description, Responsible for processes, Relevant Guidelines, References to Current Work and Backup.
Description
The role is responsible for upgrading external software in NetarchiveSuite and reporting bugs in external software
Processes
- Monitoring of development in external libraries, especially Heritrix and its dependencies
- Upgrading external libraries when needed. Our intention is to have integrity tests for each of our external libraries, so the task of upgrading a specific external software component is reduced. Currently, we only have one for Heritrix. Many of our functional unittests of course check a lot of external software components indirectly.
- Corresponding with the developers of the external libraries, including sending patches, creating bug reports and feature requests.
Guidelines
References to Current Work
Backup
Please refer to Staffing for overview of modules, owners and backups.