Hi Ami, Found your fork in github will keep an eye for your patches. Thanks!
/Roberto On Monday, July 23, 2012 11:57:08 AM UTC-4, Ami Ganguli wrote: > > Hi Roberto, > > Yup, that's more-or-less what I've done. There are a number of > problems that I ran into, unfortunately. > > I've forked your repository on GitHub. I'll try to work through the > issues one-by-one and send you links to the commits so that you can > suggest better workarounds, or integrate the fixes into your > repository. > > Cheers, > Ami. > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Roberto Rosario > <roberto.rosario...> wrote: > > Hi Ami, > > > > What you are trying to do sounds really interesting. I don't have any > > experience working with Amazon's S3 but since Mayan uses Django's > abstracted > > storage system any project that expands Django's storage options should > work > > basically out of the box with Mayan. One such project is > django-storages > > (http://django-storages.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html) > > (http://code.larlet.fr/django-storages/). Getting django-storages to > work > > with Mayan would be as follows: > > > > Activate the virtualenv where you installed Mayan > > issue a pip install django-storages > > Create a settings_local.py file with the following: > > > > # Import and activate the storages app > > > > from django.conf import settings > > > > settings.INSTALLED_APPS += ('storages',) > > > > > > # Set the simple S3Storage backend as Mayan's document storage backend > > > > from storages.backends.s3 import S3Storage > > > > DOCUMENTS_STORAGE_BACKEND=S3Storage > > > > After that, setup the S3 backend > AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, > > and such > > ( > http://django-storages.readthedocs.org/en/latest/backends/amazon-S3.html) > > saving them in the settings_local.py file. > > > > > > Please, keep the group up to date on your progress, I'm sure a lot of > > people are interested in this kind of setup. > > > > > > /Roberto > > > > > > > > On Sunday, July 22, 2012 10:17:30 PM UTC-4, Ami Ganguli wrote: > >> > >> Hi everybody, > >> > >> I've been trying to get Mayan to work with Amazon S3. > >> > >> There've been various problems, which I've hacked around one-by-one > just > >> to get something working. But now I'm running into issues that might > >> require me to touch a fair bit of code. > >> > >> Before I start doing that, I thought I would ask if anybody has gotten > >> this to work already, and if so, how? > >> > >> If not, I could start again and ask one-by-one for the "right" solution > to > >> the problems I've had, and perhaps contribute some proper patches. I'm > >> fairly new to Django, so the solutions I've come up with on my own so > far > >> are probably not the best. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Ami. > >> > > -- > > > > > > > --
