[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Test server for 2.1 (was: DIG Meeting Follow-up)

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

How many test servers do we need?

Lori


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Wolf Halton <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Y'all,
>
> Lyrasis would like to offer a pro bono test server for beta testing.
> What are the resource requirements?
>
> Wolf
>
>
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> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:15:47PM -0700, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
>> > HI All,
>> >
>> > Regarding a test server.  We've been trying to provide a test server
>> > environment with Brian's efforts.  Currently, I guess it is really more
>> of a
>> > demo server but without too much effort, we could probably set up 2.1
>> > instances for libraries to use for their own testing.  Brian has the
>> servers
>> > on the Amazon cloud so we could build VM instances there.
>> >
>> > We'd probably have to charge a fee to set up a dedicated image of 2.1
>> that a
>> > library could use for a period of time.  Brian could be available to
>> reset
>> > it if someone wanted to start all over as part of their testing and he
>> could
>> > provide some limited tech support.  But the concept would be, your
>> library
>> > could have access to their own system so you could load data and test
>> > settings without having to worry that another person would come in and
>> undo
>> > everything you set up.
>> >
>> > Is this of interest?  And if so, how do you see DIG being involved?  And
>> > also, what could libraries pay (e.g. per month) for having us set this
>> up
>> > and maintain it for them....$500/month?
>>
>> A VPS at Linode and many other sites with 1.5 GB of RAM - enough to load
>> a reasonable amount of data on for testing purposes - is about $60 /
>> month. Before we even go that route, though, community members have been
>> pretty generous in the past about making VMs available for various
>> purposes (PINES with the Web server and various other machines, Mohawk
>> with the doc server, Equinox with the testing and git servers, etc).
>> Maybe step one would be to ask the broader community who (if anyone)
>> would be willing to make a 2.1 server available.
>>
>> I believe the purpose of the system would be to test and document
>> procedures to ensure that the documentation is sound - is that what you
>> had in mind, Robert and Yamil? It sounds like what Lori has in mind
>> would be something set up & reserved for specific libraries, which is a
>> bit of a different beast.
>>
>> Ben Webb, as part of his Google Summer of Code project, had made
>> significant progress on automating Evergreen installs. So we'd be
>> looking at getting a 2.1 server set up, and running a single command to
>> reload a clean set of data whenever needed (this, too, could be
>> automated). It would be awesome to have a consistent set of data to
>> support documented task flows so we could ensure that the outcomes are
>> what we expect, but baby steps...
>>
>> Aside: this would be a good topic for our next community meeting, which
>> we should probably try and schedule...
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