[Geoserver-devel] Re: Release testing

I think this is a great idea.

For our regular full releases, I was thinking we should have a series of
walkthroughs so we can get a third party to go through the use of
geoserver and detect if anything has been messed up. I noticed UDig does
this and I think it has helped them. It will also be a good way to
constantly improve on our docs, and get direct feedback quick. It could
be an expanded user guide.
Ideas?

--
Brent Owens
TOPP

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Justin Deoliveira
The Open Planning Project
http://topp.openplans.org

Justin,

As a user/developer of Geoserver I think this would be the logical sequence
of events:

1. Install PostGIS or GIS extension to your RDBMS of choice.
2. Setup databases and relation(s) to hold FeatureTypes instances.
3. Build/distribute Geoserver to Tomcat webapps dir.
4. Start and configure Geoserver (e.g., create namespace(s), create
DataStore(s), create FeatureType(s), etc.)
5. Setup cite test suite (Optional)

v/r,
Efren

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Cc: Geoserver-devel; 'dblasby@anonymised.com'
Subject: [Geoserver-devel] Re: Release testing

I think this is a great idea.

For our regular full releases, I was thinking we should have a series of
walkthroughs so we can get a third party to go through the use of
geoserver and detect if anything has been messed up. I noticed UDig does
this and I think it has helped them. It will also be a good way to
constantly improve on our docs, and get direct feedback quick. It could
be an expanded user guide.
Ideas?

--
Brent Owens
TOPP

--
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The Open Planning Project
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Hi Efren,

Thanks for the feedback. Would you be interested in helping us set up a walkthrough? Just recentley you have come face to face with alot of the issues that users run up against.

-Justin

Efren Serra wrote:

Justin,

As a user/developer of Geoserver I think this would be the logical sequence
of events:

1. Install PostGIS or GIS extension to your RDBMS of choice.
2. Setup databases and relation(s) to hold FeatureTypes instances.
3. Build/distribute Geoserver to Tomcat webapps dir.
4. Start and configure Geoserver (e.g., create namespace(s), create
DataStore(s), create FeatureType(s), etc.)
5. Setup cite test suite (Optional)

v/r,
Efren

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[mailto:geoserver-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Justin
Deoliveira
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:32 AM
To: Brent Owens
Cc: Geoserver-devel; 'dblasby@anonymised.com'
Subject: [Geoserver-devel] Re: Release testing

I think this is a great idea.

For our regular full releases, I was thinking we should have a series of
walkthroughs so we can get a third party to go through the use of
geoserver and detect if anything has been messed up. I noticed UDig does
this and I think it has helped them. It will also be a good way to
constantly improve on our docs, and get direct feedback quick. It could
be an expanded user guide.
Ideas?

--
Brent Owens
TOPP

--
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The Open Planning Project
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Justin,

I would be glad to. Lets discuss how.

v/r,
Efren

PS It would be good to have the folks from PostGIS to distribute rpm(s) of
PostGIS. At the moment I am setting up a demo server for a conference in
San Diego and the server I can use already has PostgreSQL installed but from
rpm(s) not sources.

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Deoliveira [mailto:jdeolive@anonymised.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:27 AM
To: efren.serra.ctr@anonymised.com
Cc: Brent Owens; Geoserver-devel; dblasby@anonymised.com
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-devel] Re: Release testing

Hi Efren,

Thanks for the feedback. Would you be interested in helping us set up a
walkthrough? Just recentley you have come face to face with alot of the
issues that users run up against.

-Justin

Efren Serra wrote:

Justin,

As a user/developer of Geoserver I think this would be the logical

sequence

of events:

1. Install PostGIS or GIS extension to your RDBMS of choice.
2. Setup databases and relation(s) to hold FeatureTypes instances.
3. Build/distribute Geoserver to Tomcat webapps dir.
4. Start and configure Geoserver (e.g., create namespace(s), create
DataStore(s), create FeatureType(s), etc.)
5. Setup cite test suite (Optional)

v/r,
Efren

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[mailto:geoserver-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Justin
Deoliveira
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:32 AM
To: Brent Owens
Cc: Geoserver-devel; 'dblasby@anonymised.com'
Subject: [Geoserver-devel] Re: Release testing

I think this is a great idea.

For our regular full releases, I was thinking we should have a series of
walkthroughs so we can get a third party to go through the use of
geoserver and detect if anything has been messed up. I noticed UDig does
this and I think it has helped them. It will also be a good way to
constantly improve on our docs, and get direct feedback quick. It could
be an expanded user guide.
Ideas?

--
Brent Owens
TOPP

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The Open Planning Project
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TOPP will hopefully have a server up and running soon, where we can host some test databases/tables. This will help us focus the testing just on Geoserver and not on setting up a test environment.

The tutorial should definitely include deployment to different servers such as Tomcat. I want to make sure it hits the basic user's tutorial, and then goes into more detail and covers a larger range of topics.

I started a page for it: http://docs.codehaus.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=35873
It would be great if people could jot down topics for testing, or even add tutorials. It would help a lot, even if it is just a layout for a tutorial.

Brent Owens
TOPP

Efren Serra wrote:

Justin,

As a user/developer of Geoserver I think this would be the logical sequence
of events:

1. Install PostGIS or GIS extension to your RDBMS of choice.
2. Setup databases and relation(s) to hold FeatureTypes instances.
3. Build/distribute Geoserver to Tomcat webapps dir.
4. Start and configure Geoserver (e.g., create namespace(s), create
DataStore(s), create FeatureType(s), etc.)
5. Setup cite test suite (Optional)

v/r,
Efren

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From: geoserver-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:geoserver-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Justin
Deoliveira
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:32 AM
To: Brent Owens
Cc: Geoserver-devel; 'dblasby@anonymised.com'
Subject: [Geoserver-devel] Re: Release testing

I think this is a great idea.

For our regular full releases, I was thinking we should have a series of
walkthroughs so we can get a third party to go through the use of
geoserver and detect if anything has been messed up. I noticed UDig does
this and I think it has helped them. It will also be a good way to
constantly improve on our docs, and get direct feedback quick. It could
be an expanded user guide.
Ideas?

--
Brent Owens
TOPP

--
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The Open Planning Project
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Hi Efren,

At one point I know that postgis RPMS were being created. However I cannot seem to find a recent one. Paul should be able to comment further.

As for the documentation, i will put you onto brent, he has been doing alot of the geoserver docs latley, he should be able to set you up with some wiki space and provide a bit more direction.

-Justin

Efren Serra wrote:

Justin,

I would be glad to. Lets discuss how.

v/r,
Efren

PS It would be good to have the folks from PostGIS to distribute rpm(s) of
PostGIS. At the moment I am setting up a demo server for a conference in
San Diego and the server I can use already has PostgreSQL installed but from
rpm(s) not sources.

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Deoliveira [mailto:jdeolive@anonymised.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:27 AM
To: efren.serra.ctr@anonymised.com
Cc: Brent Owens; Geoserver-devel; dblasby@anonymised.com
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-devel] Re: Release testing

Hi Efren,

Thanks for the feedback. Would you be interested in helping us set up a
walkthrough? Just recentley you have come face to face with alot of the
issues that users run up against.

-Justin

Efren Serra wrote:

Justin,

As a user/developer of Geoserver I think this would be the logical

sequence

of events:

1. Install PostGIS or GIS extension to your RDBMS of choice.
2. Setup databases and relation(s) to hold FeatureTypes instances.
3. Build/distribute Geoserver to Tomcat webapps dir.
4. Start and configure Geoserver (e.g., create namespace(s), create
DataStore(s), create FeatureType(s), etc.)
5. Setup cite test suite (Optional)

v/r,
Efren

-----Original Message-----
From: geoserver-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:geoserver-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Justin
Deoliveira
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:32 AM
To: Brent Owens
Cc: Geoserver-devel; 'dblasby@anonymised.com'
Subject: [Geoserver-devel] Re: Release testing

I think this is a great idea.

For our regular full releases, I was thinking we should have a series of
walkthroughs so we can get a third party to go through the use of
geoserver and detect if anything has been messed up. I noticed UDig does
this and I think it has helped them. It will also be a good way to
constantly improve on our docs, and get direct feedback quick. It could
be an expanded user guide.
Ideas?

--
Brent Owens
TOPP

--
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The Open Planning Project
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