Ulrich Rothstein wrote:
[...]
>>> Von: Astrid Emde [mailto:astrid.emde ccgis.de]
>>> Gesendet: Freitag, 3. November 2006 11:01
>>> An: devmapbender.osgeo.org
>>> Betreff: Re: [Mapbender-dev] branches, tags and
svn ...
>>>
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>>> For users and want-to-contributors like me,
what is the way
>>> to go to
>>>> submit new code or code changes or invoke a
discussion on these
>>>> changes? Are there development branches in
the repository
>>> that are not
>>>> directly linked to latest stable branch,
i.e is everybody at the
>>>> moment committing into trunk? Is there a
way to test new or changed
>>>> code?
>
> The normal way is to contact this list and all
contributors are invited to
> vote. To manage the code in developer-branches is a
good idea, but I don't
> know how to manage svn-authorisations for the branches
(if we need that at
> all(?)).
> In the moment the testplatform is our installation
'mapbender_dev' (on
> wms1.ccgis.de). But there is no access from 'outside'
to checkout the svn
> sources.
> The mapbender.org-server has not the resources to act
as a test-server.
> But there is a discussion in progress with the
osgeo...
>
> best regards
> ULi
[...]
Hello,
the "discussion in progress with OSGeo" regarding
a test server has stalled midway due to several reasons
including that our administrator of trust was knocked out
for some time. Mapbender developers are now requesting for a
development platform on OSGeo infrastructure again.
Mapbender is currently using the CN SVN for code management.
It should be possible to use an SVN client on that server to
access and update from this SVN. For development purposes it
should also be possible to configure Apache with htaccess
limiting access to directories to be able to implement OWS
security proxy functionality, https should also be available
including Port 80 and 403 access from that server to the
internet (which regularly is turned off on standard boxes).
The installation needs PHP5, it should be possible to
configure all PHP settings on that machine. A
PostgreSQL/PostGIS database is required for operation
(additionally a MySQL instance would be helpful to get all
debugging done at one
place). Obviously it should be possible to up- and download
files to that server. Code and resources will only eat up
minimal disk space.
All this feels like it would best be hosted on a virtual
machine that can be hacked and configured independent of the
other OSGeo infrastructure. Ideally it would be possible to
duplicate this virtual machine and have a life demo server
that always hosts the current version. The operating system
platform is fairly irrelevant, any Linunix will do,
preferably Ubuntu, Debian or FreeBSD (no SuSE).
Currently most development takes place on servers hosted by
CCGIS which is not practical for several reasons. It cannot
be opened for more extensive use by other developers due to
security restrictions implemented to suit the privacy needs
of some customers. The machines are used in a variety of
projects requiring individual settings and last but not
least these are dedicated business server operated by one
company which feels wrong.
We are in the exceptionally cool situation that there are so
many productive Mapbender sites online that there is no
real need for a dedicated demo server. Additionally there is
no hurry as we can continue to work as is but we wanted to
restart this discussion because there has been interest by
developers to join development more closely.
Best regards,
Arnulf.
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