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

Hi Jonathan,

You really have been one of the more interested people here and I'd hate
to lose your enthusiasm.. I changed that subject line and suggested you
talk with the infrastructure admin team - may I pull back a little on
that.

I put the better part of a yesterday diving into the details for a few
of the possible choices here - including standing up a test instance on
my local machine. Primarily with an eye to user account management, NL
support, accessibilty and integration (email, mailing lists, on-line
docs, etc).

Saturday I put time into coming up to speed on some of the other, as I
see it related, projects already being worked on for the website - the
Bug reporting page and the user feedback feature. 

There will be a question as to what to do with Nabble going forward
also.

Anyway long way to get to the subject - I think we are a bit ahead of
ourselves to worry about build out at the moment.

So for the moment - maybe you could PM me your skype information and we
could talk about some of this..would that be oK?

Best wishes,

//drew


On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 13:32 +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> 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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>
> > Florian



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