[Self-platform-dev] SELF homepage at testing and other Beta migration issues

[Nagarjuna G.]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Wouter Tebbens
 <address@hidden> wrote:
 > Hi there,
 >
 >  As we just agreed today to do the migration of the SELF.Beta at Bselfish
 >  for next Wednesday (19 March), I am thinking of what needs to be taken
 >  care of to do all that smoothly.
 >
 >  As Nagarjuna told us this morning, of Phase I of the roadmap most things
 >  are already implemented. Some smaller work has still to be done on
 >  Import/Export SCORM, on i18n, on Bookshelf & FileMgr and Search. More
 >  work has to be done on Comparing and Merging UI and on QA mechanisms.
 >
 >  That means that we should have the major part of the features working
 >  next Wednesday. That is really great!
 >
 >  Thinking of it there seem to be some things we need to double check.
 >
 >  1 the testing server hompage doesn't work at all:
 >  http://testing.selfplatform.eu:8081/selfplatform/
 >
 >  why not?
 >

 this is working from my end, could be intermittent problem.


 >  2. replacing the Beta and reimporting content from scratch into the new
 >  BETA. Today we discussed that the current content will be exported as
 >  far as that is considered relevant by the authors themselves (I just
 >  sent a message to discussion and address@hidden . eu). And most LO's are
 >  SCORM objects produced at Atutor that we can import right away.
 >

 as soon as the image url's are rewritten after the import, we can
 begin the migration process.  we will update asap.


 >  What about those materials at the current SELF.Beta that still need to
 >  be exported, as the SELF Help and About objects?
 >
 >  http://beta.selfplatform.eu/selfbeta/Members/selfuser/course2/course_manage
 >
 >  Export seems not to work at the SELF.Beta. Or did I miss something?
 >

 will check this get back to the list.


 >  3. Preparing the BSELFISH server for the new release, including
 >  Postgres. Is all set?

 nothing done as yet, but this is not a major work.


 >
 >  4. Installing the working version of SELF from CVS onto BSELFISH. Is the
 >  CVS version indeed the latest code, the code that we are testing at
 >  CSELFISH? I agree with Federico's view on the use of CVS. All code
 >  should come from CVS and bugfixes should be recorded at CVS right away.
 >

 I will talk to the developers and find out where things are going
 wrong, and why there are mismatches.

 Nagarjuna