#709925 RFP: zotero-dataserver -- dataserver for the zotero client

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
westlake
Date:
2015-03-18 08:51:04 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#709925#5
Date:
2013-05-26 19:59:41 UTC
From:
To:
* Package name: zotero
Version: 4.0
Upstream Author: George Mason University
* URL : http://www.zotero.org
* License : (LGPL, closed)
Description:

A powerful citation tool. (But can also be used as a powerufl bookmark
manager with notation capabilties. Provides bookmarks.html import and
export)

Zotero.org server is not required. Zotero webbrowser plugin can be set
to use 'standalone binary'.

Standalone binary uses a local datastore. Compare to 'server'.

The zotero 'server' is optionally supported with the webbrowser plugin.
The server can be from zotero.org or from a privately owned zotero
server. The privately zotero server code from github but still looks
experimental (it uses .php and apache)..

Links of interest
http://www.zotero.org/ (main homepage, hosts runnable Linux tarballs)
https://github.com/zotero
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotero

http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/dataserver_setup  (Has instructions
but seems outdated.. This is the private zotero server code, there may
be more updated instructions lurking in googlegroups.  The software
works perfectly fine with the standalone binary+webbrowser plugin
firefox, and others)

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/zotero-dev

Software is very stable and useful for researchers/journalists.. can
also be used for it's other capabilities..(provides a quick citation
template for wikipedia/mediawiki.. is very rich on 'export' formats)

I think this is worth the effort of packaging, the program looks well
made and very useful. I actually think it's kickbutt, debian needs more
software like this :)
#709925#10
Date:
2013-05-28 22:47:17 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Scott

The standalone binary of zotero [1] and the browser plugin [2] are already
packaged. Do these two packages already satisfy your request or do you
want to request packaging of the server component instead?

Regards

[1] http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/zotero-standalone-build
[2] http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/xul-ext-zotero
#709925#15
Date:
2013-06-02 10:57:45 UTC
From:
To:
[Please keep the bug in CC.]

Sorry, I should have made myself clear and said that I'm not particularly
interested in zotero. I just wanted to clarify the nature of the request
as the standalone app and the plugin are already packaged.

As I understand it, it would be nice to have the zotero dataserver
packaged so one can use zotero independent of the zotero.org server. So
let's retitle the bug to make it clear it's about the dataserver.
Hopefully someone picks up the request. You may want to talk to the
maintainers of xul-ext-zotero and zotero-standalone and check if they
are interested in it.

Regards
#709925#22
Date:
2013-06-03 07:19:34 UTC
From:
To:
(AGPL)
(I don't think there's any closed parts)
#709925#27
Date:
2015-03-18 08:46:09 UTC
From:
To:
I made a proposal for this issue on FreedomSponsors [1] in case anyone
is interested in putting a bounty on it. I'd like to package this, but I
doubt it will be anytime soon. Maybe this will become more interesting
for someone else to take on and it will get done faster.

Regards,
Afif

1.
https://freedomsponsors.org/issue/661/rfp-zotero-dataserver-dataserver-for-the-zotero-client