Yes, it is currently sitting in my own fork, haven't yet merged with master.

https://github.com/anandology/openlibrary/tree/vagrant

drop me an email or catch me on #openlibrary IRC for any help.

Anand 

On 08-Apr-2013, at 12:23 PM, Ben Companjen wrote:

> cc: ol-tech
> 
> Regarding test environments: Anand has been working on a configuration
> for Vagrant Up [1] that lets everyone setup her/his own virtual
> machine with test environment. The slogan "Create and configure
> lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments."
> speaks to me :)
> 
> I haven't touched it yet, but I believe it's ready for testing:
> https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/175 (closed)
> 
> Ben
> 
> [1] http://www.vagrantup.com/


> 
> On 8 April 2013 04:12,  <johnson....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> We've cross emailed, but yes. I would be willing to work on a test env, and
>> docs for dev envs.
>> 
>> My understanding (and I looked at this a bit back in Feb.) is that this
>> platform takes some work to get and keep up. But I suspect that if myself
>> and another person or two were willing, it would be possible to set
>> something up to act as sandbox, or CI, or whatever.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 7, 2013, at 19:08, Nicolás Tamargo de
>> Eguren<reosare...@musicbrainz.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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