All, There are a few minor parts missing from RADiX build. One of which is PGE integration. There are a few more simplifying assumptions I'd like to get into there too. If we can get the stabilized build that would be awesome.
+1 to RADiX in a VM. --Paul On 4/14/14 4:29 AM, "Lewis John Mcgibbney" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Tom, >There is actually some low hanging fruit here as well. >Simplifying the site is a no brainer tbh. This just takes a late night or >two and some steely determination from one or two individuals. >Moving site documentation out of trunk and onto a wiki/website that can be >edited in an adhoc manner is a much more logic solution than we currently >have. >Getting a (possibly RADIX) service up and running which can be hosted at >Apache VM is a no brainer as well. Your UI stuff will come in extremely >handy here. >Getting the build stabalized for *nix systems is a must. Windows build is >equally important but we need someone to take this on. From what I can >see, >lots of this has to do with the configuration files not being found on >paths etc. This may or may not take as long to fix as initially imagined. >For the time being I've disabled unsuccessful messages for the Windows >build coming to the dev list as it was starting to make me depressed again >:) >I'm going to begin work on OODT-670 which will hopefully stabalize builds >on *nix however this is rather non-trivial so may take it bit of time. >I'll >try my best. >This is all from me right now Tom. I've got a clear idea of what I *think* >we should do. Maybe getting a roadmap together on the wiki would be a good >goal. >Within the above scope, we could maybe push a 0.7 release as there have >been a number of issues addressed? > > > > >On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Tom Barber <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> I'll move this over here as it does carry some relevance ;) >> >> Me and Lewis were discussing OODT over the week and a couple of take >>aways >> we saw that were hindering adoption was a) The name (but we can't do >>much >> about that ;) ) >> b) The website >> c) The build >> >> So a couple of things I would like to work on on top of the Tika update >> and fixing the GMT build is getting the default config to build out of >>the >> box, because currently you have to tweak the properties files and this >> makes life real hard for people just wanting to get started. >>Personally, I >> think that if you don't have a build that compiles without changes at >> checkout, either you have to change it or make it stupidly easily for >> people to understand what needs setting, because otherwise they get >> lost/bored and go do something else. Also it makes life easier for >>people >> trying to understand whats broken in the codebase(failing tests due to >>code >> problems) and whats broken because of configuration issues(failing tests >> due to user problems) which is currently far from clear. >> >> Lastly, at some point over the next few months I'd like to take a stab >>at >> creating an alternative website that tries to hide some of the science >> stuff and all the tailored build pages and make it clearer where the >>useful >> information was and what the platform does to no science type people. >> >> Clearly both these projects are purely hypothetical and I wont push >> anything without sign off, but there was a decent turn out to my talk >>and >> some cross over with people who knew BI, so I think its an angle worth >> pursuing. >> >> Comments and suggestions please :) >> >> Tom >> >> >> On 14/04/14 02:31, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: >> >>> Scoff unlike OODT yeesh >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Apr 13, 2014, at 4:43 PM, "Tom Barber" <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Alright then chaps, >>>> >>>> After too much beer i've got home and checked out the source. It even >>>> compiles without hacking stuff unlike OODT which is always nice. So, >>>>for >>>> someone that doesn't use Gora or have any knowledge of the code base, >>>>if I >>>> want to help hows best to get started? :) >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> Tom >>>> -- >>>> *Tom Barber* | Technical Director >>>> >>>> meteorite bi >>>> *T:* +44 20 8133 3730 >>>> *W:* www.meteorite.bi | *Skype:* meteorite.consulting >>>> *A:* Surrey Technology Centre, Surrey Research Park, Guildford, GU2 >>>>7YG, >>>> UK >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> *Tom Barber* | Technical Director >> >> meteorite bi >> *T:* +44 20 8133 3730 >> *W:* www.meteorite.bi | *Skype:* meteorite.consulting >> *A:* Surrey Technology Centre, Surrey Research Park, Guildford, GU2 >>7YG, UK >> > > > >-- >*Lewis*
