[Geoserver-devel] Re: Release testing

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Good feedback Efren,

It will be nice to have links to specific documentation for each external service (Postgis, oracle...). Right now we have an empty tutorial page for PostGIS, http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/User+Tutorial+PostGIS . Would you be able to paste some useful links and notes there? Even just the stuff you have in this e-mail.

I am hoping that for the release 'sanity check walkthrough', that all RDMS' are already set up and opperating on a central server. Just so that the release testing can go smoothly. We hope to have several data sources: PostGIS, maybe Oracle.

Brent Owens
TOPP

Efren Serra wrote:

Brent,

Which ever format is chosen for the tutorial, the RDMS setup has to come
first since WFS relies on it. For instance,
is one chooses PostgreSQL, then one should put:

1. Server runtime-environment (e.g.,
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/runtime.html)
2. Database users and priviledges (e.g.,
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/user-manag.html)
3. Client authentication (e.g.,
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/user-manag.html1)
4. PostGIS installation

The reason being some folks don't want the RDMS in the same box as the Web
Container for security reasons, etc., and the RDBMS is not localhost.

v/r,
Efren

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Owens [mailto:brentowens@anonymised.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:34 AM
To: efren.serra.ctr@anonymised.com
Cc: Geoserver-devel
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-devel] Re: Release testing

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

-----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

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

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