Re: [libreoffice-website] Use of staging server ( was: official forums)

On 12/11/2011 23:38, drew wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 10:38 +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> <snip>
> > What testing would you like me to do for phpbb?
> >
> > Regards
> Hi Jonathan,
>
>
> May redirect your question, just a bit.
>
> So, there are really two different levels of interaction here that will
> need to be filled by folk - there are site (server) level administrative
> tasks and a service level tasks.
>
> The later (service level) tasks will likely be available fully within a
> control panel type set of web pages.
>
> The server level tasks however, working directly with the connected
> dbms, changing settings/options with php, or image manipulation libs,
> etc., will require some different level of access to the actual server
> being used.
>
> Sounds to me, from reading your prior emails, that you are interested in
> volunteering to be responsible for server level tasks.
>
> Now if I follow correctly from what Florian has said in a few emails one
> idea here is that there will be (is?) a vm on the tdf server that can be
> used to develop the service - a staging server in other words.
>
> I'm naive as to whether you are already working with the current tdf
> admin crew at this level - but either - I would suggest to turn your
> question into:
>
> What steps are needed now to get you, and others willing to get this
> involved, connected?
> - as for first work steps, getting a standard lamp stack setup, I guess.
>
> //drew
Hey Drew thanks for your reply.

I am actually not working with the server admin staff, but would be very 
interested. Also I have been discussing on and off via skype with 
Florian about options and server side things. Was hoping to have a more 
indepth chat with him about it and about how to move forward, but things 
came up and he was very busy. I am hoping this week I can discuss this 
further with him. As for me getting a LAMP stack installed on linux isnt 
a problem neither setting up.

Florian did mention the TDF getting another or some more servers, In all 
honesty i would rather test directly on physical hardware if that is 
goign to be where the forums eventually get deployed, as all we would 
need to do is let everyone know that here is the forums that they can 
start being used.

Another thing I have noticed in my experiences in testing on the actual 
hardware vs virtual machines, is that issues might arise on physical 
hardware and not in a virtual machine and vise versa.

Florian would it be an issue if we tested on physical hardware instead 
of a virtual machine for the above mentioned reason of ensuring no 
issues arise both in a vm and not physical machine and vice versa?

Regards

Jonathan Aquilina

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