SysAdmins

We can always use SysAdmin support to help out with our infrastructure: developing tools & maintaining sites.

Deployment Cycle

• InstallationGuidelines
• MaintenanceGuidelines
  • UserGuidelinesUpgrade
  • BluePrintUpgrades
  • PakistanDeploymentCycle

Setting up a New Instance

These documents are secured - ask for access if you are going to contribute:

• ​IP Addresses/RAM Allocations for Eden Infrastructure
• ​Setting up a new VM instance on Eden Infrastructure

References

• ​SysAdmin notes for Eden Infrastructure
• ​Foundation Infrastructure
• ​Contacts

ToDo

Test

• Set up an instance of Hudson to automatically run through our Selenium tests

Demo

• Have a set of reference data available

Pootle

• Upgrade to 2.1.4 (from 2.1.1)

Trac

• Upgrade to 0.12.1
  • Check Plugin Dependencies
• Convert from sqlite to PostgreSQL (or MySQL) to improve performance
• Add Timing & Estmation Plugin
• Investigate a fix or alternative to ​http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/MathCaptchaPlugin for allowing Trac users to register bugs anonymously whilst not locking out our testing team.
• See if we can not send emails out to users for the updates they make themselves (maybe fixed in 0.12.x?)
• Investigate a fix for the last section edit doubling-up the footers (maybe fixed in 0.12.x?)

Release Process

• DeveloperGuidelinesReleaseProcess
• Bzr start-commit hook to check for existence of 'compiled' folder

Translation Process

• Bzr start-commit hook to update all languages (need a script rather than the current appadmin UI method)

  cd web2py
  python web2py.py -S eden -R applications/eden/static/scripts/tools/languages.py
  

• Scripts to automate the conversion 2 PO & upload/download to/from Pootle: UserGuidelinesLocalisation