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[edit] Welcome to the Fez Wiki

Fez is a PHP / MySQL front end to the Fedora repository software. It is developed by the University of Queensland Library as an open source project hosted on SourceForge. There are mailing lists, forums and download links on the SourceForge site.

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[edit] Fez 2 Release Candidate 1 Released

Refactored search index for much greater performance and scaling
New citation engine and citation view
Compatibility with Fedora 2.2.1, 2.2 and 2.1.1 (Fez 1.3 needed patches to work with Fedora 2.2)
Simpler installation with as-you-install configuration checks and suggestions
Many bugfixes and improvements since Fez 1.3
More details in Christiaan's SUN PASIG presentation here
Download Fez 2.0 RC1 here (please report any problems to the fez developers mailing list)

[edit] Current Fez Team Development

This week the Fez team is working on:

Belinda: Thinking about UQ eSpace software requirements.
Christiaan: Adding support for database session storage (rather than files). Adding ORCA feed support. Track our progress in our code commit log here: Fez WebSVN commit log
Lachlan: Documenting the Human Resources data feeds scripts that pump data into Fez for form controls and the author affiliation workflows.
Rhys: More tightly integrating the assigned user/group and status values on objects with workflows and security. Adding support for Solr Faceting in the Fez search results/query GUI.

The Fez developer community is working on:

Kai Jauslin @ ETH: Integrating Apache Solr with Fez (including FezACML auth restriction during query) as an indexing/searching engine plugin option (contributed). Redoing Fez layout.
Luis Zorita @ UNED: Integrating Moodle-style translation engine into Fez.
Lynette Rayle @ NSDL: Integrating OnFire workflow and distribution system with Fez.
Jonathon Harker @ Catalyst: Adding Postgresql support for Fez including TSearch2 for fulltext indexing.
Keith Maull @ Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries: Implementing alternate (multiple) namespaces in the one Fez and Fedora instance. Integrated Oragami Image viewer (contributed).
Matt Painter @ Archives New Zealand: Implementing recursive directory trawling into the batch ingest workflow (contributed).

Also see the Developments part of our Wiki.