[pgrouting-users] Today in the discussion forum: demo down

[Daniel Kastl]

>From my experience it's always a bit hard to keep routing demo servers
running, if you don't check them regularly.

So yes I agree, that a server where more people can access and check from
time to time, would help a lot. It would be also nice to have some demo
applications running, that users can download and start with. This would
also mean that everyone can help to improve them, and not only one developer
knows, where the problem lies.

For hosting demos I could think about a virtual machine, that can be easily
be rolled back to some previous snapshot and restarted within a few seconds.


I think there is really a lot to vote for and a couple of RFC's to be
written the next weeks ;-)
But I'm glad there is some activity now.

Thanks for that!
Daniel


2010/3/9 Jun Koike <jun.july.25 at gmail.com>

> Hi lists,
>
> I've restarted postgresql on the demonstration server, sorry for your
> inconvenience. As I wrote in the forum, we also show this
> demonstration and sometimes we have to restart postgresql. Of course
> there are some reasons that postgresql freezes..one is server(?)'s
> spec, Daniel and Anton know ;)
>
> I think PSC will discuss where to host community infrastructure,
> including demonstration,  at first. As Daniel says, it's problem that
> core members have problem to maintain the server right now and it's
> also problem for me. Actually I don't know when we can use OSGeo's
> infra after the community ask to them(and how to ask), but at first I
> think it's better to finding a new place/server to host, where core
> members can maintain at least.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Jun
>
> 2010/3/9 Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>:
> > Daniel Kastl wrote:
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> If you keep an idea on the discussion forum of pgRouting, you probably
> >> already read this post:
> http://pgrouting.postlbs.org/discussion/topic/340
> >>
> >> To keep the demos up and running is really a problem and probably one of
> >> the first things to be discussed with a new PSC. Because the demos are a
> >> lot of work to maintain, but they for sure attract a lot of people.
> >>
> >> @Orkney: for me and Anton it became very difficult now to keep demos
> >> alive, but I have no good idea so far how to solve this issue.
> >>
> >> Daniel
> >
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > Can you discuss what the issues are with respect to keeping the demos
> > running? I can think of the following issues:
> >
> > 1) servers are up/down, access to servers might be problematic.
> >    - one solution is to look for new servers to host the demos
> >    - we should probably identify space and load requirements, but OSGeo
> > might be able to help in this area.
> >
> > 2) changes to the code base are breaking the demos
> >    - probably need to know more about this if that is the case
> >
> > 3) changes to Posgtresql/PostGIS are breaking the demos
> >    - the demo system should be relatively stable on a constant version
> >    - we might need access to more version for testing (virtual machines?)
> >    - we might need to build an automated demo install script to make it
> > easy to test on more versions.
> >
> > 4) Other reasons?
> >
> > OK, rereading your email it seems that 1) is the likely issue. We might
> > want to discuss some of the other potential issues also as part of the
> > PSC if they are problematic.
> >
> > -Steve
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