[Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero dirakx at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 16:20:04 EDT 2008


Hi

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:12 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:

>
> On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) wrote:
>
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the review. I copied your reply to the Uruguay
> > edublog
> > volunteer list: uruguay-XO-coordination at googlegroups.com
> >
> > I will use that list to work with end users and for internal project
> > tracking. That said, anyone can join. It's Spanish and English and
> > occasionally I post in Spanglish :-)
> >
> > Tarun is traveling to India this week. Hopefully he or an engineer in
> > Montevideo can reply in a few days and we will work out the technical
> > details and server related software questions here.
> >
> > A few preliminary questions.
> > 1 - I'm not clear on what you are saying here: "DB - assume
> > Postgres 8.x
> > series, support mySQL"
> > Is it PostGres or MySQL? (btw we already brought up a box w/MySQL, so
> > hopefully it will be easy to copy tables and queries over).
> >
> > 2 - Should we have our own table in a single DB that is shared by
> > Moodle
> > and all other apps or do need our own DB. I think the DB will be used
> > for storing who posted what blog where, pending blogs and all that kid
> > of persistent data. Tarun may have other comments on what he needs in
> > the DB. We'll do no user auth or identity tracking until we know your
> > high level plan. Fall back in case that's not cooked by August is
> > cookies or worst case no identity and everyone looks the same.
> >
> > 3 - We will bring up another XS and will put it on the internet. This
> > will be our primary pre-production server (e.g. we may use it for
> > final
> > beta test). Let me know if anyone has any concerns about that. Tony
> > who
> > worked on Nepal early on will image it and ship it to a co-lo and
> > we'll
> > manage it from there. Tony needs the recommended specs:
> > HW - memory, capacity disk drives, USB ports, NICs, etc.
> > SW - Moodle, Squid, etc. Anything beyond what you get with the XS
> > image
> > (e.g. do we need to install Apache and PHP). I'm not sure how we will
> > track the F7 dependencies, but I hope the sys admins can think about
> > that (still accepting more volunteers too ;-). Tony has notes from the
> > first time, so he says its no problem to take Wad's (or Martin's now)
> > latest build and go from there.
> >
> > The HW and SW specs answer may be RTFM so don't hesitate to send a
> > link.
> > I'm asking to get the latest thinking. I'll update the wiki as needed
> > once I'm sure I have the right info.
> >
> > Also, does anyone have the HW specs of the XS boxes deployed in
> > Uruguay?
> > I'll ask elsewhere if no one on this list has it.
>
> I'll try to get that tmw.   I'll be talking to the server team.
>
> The hardware specs used in Uruguay and Peru, could be a help for other
pilots,
also the experience, (to avoid redundant errors), a knowledge base is
necessary,
i can volunteer in helping document and wikifying all this info.



-- 
Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
One Laptop Per Child
rafael at laptop.org
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