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

On 11/14/11 1:03 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jonathan Aquilina wrote on 2011-11-13 15:45:

> [SNIP]
> I am sadly very busy, but I did not forget about you, I'll try to ping 
> you when I find time. TDF is pro bono for me, so sometimes, the real 
> life kicks in and needs its time...
I totally understand, I know what its like when real life kicks in as well.
> > Florian did mention the TDF getting another or some more servers, In all
>
> That's on the agenda, but I doubt that it will happen this year, to be 
> honest. It's a matter of money and time. But in the long run, more 
> hardware will be ordered, because it is needed.
No worries Reason i suggested testing on the actual hardware would be to 
try and cut down the work then of migrating the forums from the staging 
machine to the live server. How time consuming would it be to migrate 
from a vm to a live machine once we have finished testing?

> > 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.
>
> Why would you want to test on physical hardware directly? Where would 
> be the difference?
>
> > 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.
>
> We are just talking about forum software, not rocket science. ;-) So, 
> I really doubt we'll run into problems here if we test it in a VM.
Agreed. I can confirm though with phpbb that there are no issues on a vm :)

> > 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?
>
> Yes, it would be, as I don't have any spare server where people can 
> test software. I can offer a VM, but that's it.
Vm will suffice :D its just taht i have seen some strange os based bugs 
surface on vm's that usually dont surface on the actual hardware.


Regards

Jonathan Aquilina

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