Re: [xwiki-users] Off-topic: Xwiki and VMs
Hi everyone, First of all, I agree with Ludovic and Vincent, a new VM should be created every time a new version is out. It obviously is a lot of data that needs to be stored but the problem with not having an up to date VM is that people who just want to check out XWiki in a ready to go and possibly production ready environment most likely do not want to bother with setting up the VM and immediately having to upgrade the XWiki instance before they can try the latest version. Anyway, either I did not make myself clear or you missed the notion that I am not really a huge fan of VMs. On the one hand it can be hard to integrate pre-built VMs with a companies IT systems, on the other hand, AFAIK, there is no really free VM software that can be used in corporations. What I had in mind was a package that will provide everything necessary to easily create a ready-for-production-use environment including an easy to use configuration wizard. I further thought about upgrade packages and restructuring the XE documents to ease upgrading. Also, I am neither very familiar with VMs nor Linux, so I am probably really not the best person for doing this kind of a job. Regards, Johannes -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Off-topic-Xwiki-and-VMs-tp6157103p6157366.html Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] Off-topic: Xwiki and VMs
Hi, Vincent, about the part you had trouble understanding, I was merely trying to reason why the idea Andreas had about only creating a VM every once in a while and not on a regular basis (i.e. for every version) is not good according to my oppinion. Anyway, great that we agree on the wizard and so forth. Andreas, about VirtualBox, at least the full edition is not suitable for business use if the company aims for using software with a free license. The extension for RDP, for instance, is not part of the Open Source Edition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Box#Licensing and http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads). Be that as it may, I am not all in favor for VMs for the other reasons I mentioned so we do not have to discuss this bit in length. Regards, Johannes -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Off-topic-Xwiki-and-VMs-tp6157103p6157669.html Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] Drop mailing lists in favor of a forum software
Hmmm, I think removing the user mailing list is not a necessity when moving to a bulleting board (like) user support. Keeping both has the benefit of allowing both ways for the user but comes with the disadvantage of distributed information (board and mailing list) and possibly more work for the devs/supporting users because they would have to check both. So this should probably be discussed. Johannes -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Drop-mailing-lists-in-favor-of-a-forum-software-tp6099297p6153205.html Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
