[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen community servers

[Anoop Atre]

There have been a couple of discussions about the community demo/test 
servers that are available and required ones that are missing. This is a 
summary of what has been suggested/planned; how the servers should be 
setup, maintained, etc.

Thoughts, suggestions, glaring issues with the current plans? Please 
feel free to respond. Cheers

Current plans/suggestions:

1. Mike Peters will be maintaining a master demo server while Brian 
Feifarek will maintain a current stable release demo server and EC2 image.

2. Weekly (or twice a week) refresh of data, clearly stated on demo 
server page. Mike Peters provided a rudimentary script[1] to auto 
refresh the data.

3. Provide a list of cronjobs/services (targeting scripts, reporter, 
etc) that are running on the demo servers and try to have all of them 
running the same set.

4. The sample data provided by Mike Peters[2] will be used on all 
demos/images so we will have some consistency across servers.

5. Standardize http://foo.com/democlient.exe as a location for all demos 
and on versions that can do remote client updates use 
http://foo.com/updates/manualupdate.html That way, everyone always knows 
where to look on each demo server for the version specific staff client.

[1] http://paste.lisp.org/display/124819
[2] http://help.evergreen.lib.in.us/generate-demodata.tar.gz

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Anoop Atre
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