The installation task force was formed in December 2011 to work on
concept to improve the Matterhorn installation experience. This group
was created to discuss the current state of the installation
instructions, coming to some conclusions on the next step(s) and
eventually disband.
The group meets once a week for an hour and maintains a page on the
opencast wiki [1].
We are currently working on an installation script to install Matterhorn
1.3 on Ubuntu and CentOS [2] [3]. After some discussion it was decided
not to integrate the Capture Agent installation script into this script.
We don't see this script currently as the default way to install
Matterhorn 1.3, as the QA of the installation documentation for the
release is already done. The new script is currently being tested but
not in a systematic way. We would appreciate some feedback on these
scripts and if they are working as expected for several adopters we
might update the release docs.
Additional to this we have started a survey on the Matterhorn lists to
get a better idea on what the users expect on how the installation
should work.
More of half of the 34 participants in the survey were system
administrators and nearly 1/4 were software developers.
The target group to install Matterhorn should be "Interested users with
a fair knowledge of Linux and the command line" (76.5%).
The most people are targeting for Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS installations.
The other operating systems (including other Linux distributions) got
significantly less votes.
Most people would prefer to compile ffmpeg on their machines (67.6%)
than to use a codec restricted version that does not support H.264 for
example.
Most people would prefer a web-based configuration editor (64.7%) than
editing XML-config files (23.5%), only a few would like to have command
line scripts to change the configuration (11.8%).
MySQL is the most used database among the adopters (76.5%). Postgresql
(17.6%), Oracle (2.9%) and the internal database (2.9%) only play a
minor role.
Most users want to run a distributed setup (70.6%).
Only a few are interested cloud-base services currently (20.6%),
although several (41.2%) are at least considering this option.
If you are interested in the results of the survey you'll find them here
[4].
On the Oxford Meeting Osnabrück volunteered to start to work on a
web-based configuration UI that hopefully will be available in the
middle of the year in a first iteration.
Additional Osnabrück is currently trying out if repositories for CentOS
would be a good way to go. We will report back on the progress of this.
If you have further demands, comments or you are willing to work and
contribute in this area please reply on this mail.
[1] http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Install+Group
[2] http://opencast.jira.com/svn/MH/trunk/docs/scripts/installer/
[3]
http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Installer+Script+(beta)+(Trunk
<http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Installer+Script+%28beta%29+%28Trunk%29>)
[4]
http://appv3.sgizmo.com/reportsview/?key=7167-1025164-da0b01d3a7ed400042b24cb9e1d9c1a0
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