[Webcom] Service Provider Fix/Upgrade

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Ian Edwards <iedwards.pub at gmail.com> wrote:

> Frank's made a patch using old code from the database and updated #1105<http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1105>.
> He says first signs look good. Well done Frank!
>
> I'm not able to test or review at the moment, can some one else take a
> quick look?
>
> - Frank, could you send a quick note on how you think the backup is/isn't
> working - do you think the SQL dump you're looking at was made manually or
> ran from cron?
>

Ian,

The .sql file was from months ago.  I assume it was produced when Martin
(or someone else?) was doing a test port of Drupal to a new server VM.  I
don't see any evidence in crontab that there is any backups being produced
of mysql.  All the backup related stuff I vaguely recall from the distant
past  seems to be gone.

- Adam, you were right that we should really be using views to do this in
> the long term. I need to read through our WebCom pages<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Website_Committee> and
> old minutes, and also get more familiar with the workings of the server,
> but perhaps around FOSS4G we need to be think about our roadmap?
>


I will note that with the service provider directory working again I'm not
personally very excited about an overhaul.  We do however need to get
Drupal migrated to a new system - hopefully with a newer versions of
Drupal.  Getting that migration done would be (IMHO) much higher priority
than reworking existing capabilities.  Amoung other things it will get us
out from under a $7500/year server contract with Peer1.

Best regards,
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