okfn/bibserver — Issue #126: View record failing
Author: pitman
Created: 2011-11-07 03:49:32+00:00
State: open

Previously, when clicking the "View Record" links there was an attractive display of the full
record.

Now I get a screen:

"Experimental editor in use. If no output visible below, please log an issue and inform us of your browser version and operating system.

If you are the owner of the collection this record belongs to, you should see edit options on the record below. Otherwise, you should see the record displayed fairly tidily in a table."

Working on my old Safari Version 3.0.4 (523.12) I do not see the record, neither do I in my old Firefox 3.0.1
It is really critically important that users be able to see the full record. Moreover, I dont want to even think about editing records on BibSoup at present. BibSoup is up and down, and I have no confidence that any effort spent editing will not be wasted. I think we should not be using the general BibSoup as an editing test area. Rather we should be using it as a demonstration of our stable capabilities, which are now considerable. What bothers me is we gain these and then lose them in further dev.
Moreover, it is the wrong model for us at present to attempt to provide central editing capability. We are not Google or Microsoft, and do not have the dev resources to support this on a large scale. We should be providing distributed editing capability. It is fine to test this capability, but this should be done on another BibServer installation, not the primary one which we should be using to demonstrating stable display of collections which are managed on other servers, not on the BibSoup server.

Generally, there seems to be a problem we are trying to do too much with one bibserver, and one developer. I think the highest priority should be to clone the bibserver, and have lots of instances, all operating over BibJSON, and enourage other developers to work with us on these various instances. How to achieve this?