MPDL Developer Meeting 2011-10-18

MPDL

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PUBMAN

 * No release this week due to buggy framework
 * From now on PubMan has a 2 weeks user testing phase before we go live
 * We have to check in future which development/feature is MPG specific sow e can distinguish between our PubMan and the open source PubMan

DARIAH

 * Bastien finished report on infrastructure.
 * Milestone at the end of this month, but there are still server missing for the set up

IMEJI

 * Malte presented Imeji in japan and they were happy :) Japan wants to use imeji live, only some minor changes are required
 * An oai-pmh interface should be set up. One thought was to use a static file of metadata which is generated every night (tbd)

Other

 * Sysadmins wish to run the live Pubman instances in virtual machines on the same physical servers (srv01, srv02, srv03)(one v-machine per server) where pubman/coreservice/postgresql+fedora currently run natively. This is to allow more flexible upgrading of these servers in the future. We would like to make this change during the pubman 7.0 release
 * Has to be considered in release planning, downtime will be extended (approx. now from thursday on)
 * Performance issues were discussed - to be checked!


 * Since we have no new ip-addresses, this means we would like to use three existing ip-addresses, which means removing three existing VMs from their current usage. Our candidates (VMs that we think are not needed) are:
 * dev-faces (vm07) -- NOT FREE
 * test-faces (vm14) -- NOT FREE
 * qa-faces (vm09) -- FREE
 * dev-virr (vm10) -- FREE
 * test-virr (vm11) -- To be checked with Willy, but very likly dlc server
 * tei-demonstrator -- To be checked with Willy
 * diamonds (vm29) -- To be checked ???
 * Comments and protests welcome


 * Sysadmins would like to standardise (for now) on PostgreSQL v9.1. This is to allow synchronous replication. Note that we recently installed 9.0.4 on qa-coreservice. Can we upgrade it during the pubman run? - Will be upgraded in next weeks
 * PubMan qa/test/nims were hacked again!
 * First action: turn off auto deploy (what to do with dev-server?)
 * Prevent head request to be security leak (possible to config?)

Next moderator
Due to eSciDoc days and holiday the next meeting will be on Nov. 8 Moderator: Gudrun