On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Karen Coyle <kco...@kcoyle.net> wrote:
> > > On 4/7/13 6:31 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > > That sounds wonderful. I'd be happy to help you sort out the questions > > about ISBNs, etc... > > > > If such definitions were available, would we be able to get them > > committed and running on the main site? > > I don't know that we can count on that, but obviously it would be ideal. > While volunteers have run bots against OL, I don't think anyone has made > changes to the basic displays. This is a question that we'll need to > take up because, AFAIK, there are no longer any UI developers on the > project. > > One thing that always frustrated me was not having a test version of OL > to work with. I was always used to doing changes on a test system, and > it makes me extremely nervous to work directly on a system in > production. I don't know how the UI changes were originally done - > whether there was a test system available. (The UI team was very > skillful and I suspect that the code in that area is fairly > sophisticated.) I think that Anand has his own test set-up. How does > that usually work in an open source project? Is there a test instance > for everyone, or are people expected to create their own? > In MusicBrainz's case (which is obviously the one I know most about) there used to be a general test instance. Since a while ago, we run a sandbox server where everyone who asks for it gets their own sandbox instance, but that obviously requires a fair bit of sysadmining which I don't know whether anyone is willing to provide, and might be overkill for the time being - just one test instance should be enough. FWIW, we also run a beta version (on live data) where people can check and find problems in the code before they go live for everyone, but again, that's a relatively recent development and one that might not be necessary just yet in OL. Working directly on production tends to be a terrible idea, so: would anyone be willing to set up a test server? Cheers, Nicolás
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