Hi Tom, There is actually some low hanging fruit here as well. Simplifying the site is a no brainer tbh. This just takes a late night or two and some steely determination from one or two individuals. Moving site documentation out of trunk and onto a wiki/website that can be edited in an adhoc manner is a much more logic solution than we currently have. Getting a (possibly RADIX) service up and running which can be hosted at Apache VM is a no brainer as well. Your UI stuff will come in extremely handy here. Getting the build stabalized for *nix systems is a must. Windows build is equally important but we need someone to take this on. From what I can see, lots of this has to do with the configuration files not being found on paths etc. This may or may not take as long to fix as initially imagined. For the time being I've disabled unsuccessful messages for the Windows build coming to the dev list as it was starting to make me depressed again :) I'm going to begin work on OODT-670 which will hopefully stabalize builds on *nix however this is rather non-trivial so may take it bit of time. I'll try my best. This is all from me right now Tom. I've got a clear idea of what I *think* we should do. Maybe getting a roadmap together on the wiki would be a good goal. Within the above scope, we could maybe push a 0.7 release as there have been a number of issues addressed?
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Tom Barber <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll move this over here as it does carry some relevance ;) > > Me and Lewis were discussing OODT over the week and a couple of take aways > we saw that were hindering adoption was a) The name (but we can't do much > about that ;) ) > b) The website > c) The build > > So a couple of things I would like to work on on top of the Tika update > and fixing the GMT build is getting the default config to build out of the > box, because currently you have to tweak the properties files and this > makes life real hard for people just wanting to get started. Personally, I > think that if you don't have a build that compiles without changes at > checkout, either you have to change it or make it stupidly easily for > people to understand what needs setting, because otherwise they get > lost/bored and go do something else. Also it makes life easier for people > trying to understand whats broken in the codebase(failing tests due to code > problems) and whats broken because of configuration issues(failing tests > due to user problems) which is currently far from clear. > > Lastly, at some point over the next few months I'd like to take a stab at > creating an alternative website that tries to hide some of the science > stuff and all the tailored build pages and make it clearer where the useful > information was and what the platform does to no science type people. > > Clearly both these projects are purely hypothetical and I wont push > anything without sign off, but there was a decent turn out to my talk and > some cross over with people who knew BI, so I think its an angle worth > pursuing. > > Comments and suggestions please :) > > Tom > > > On 14/04/14 02:31, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) wrote: > >> Scoff unlike OODT yeesh >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Apr 13, 2014, at 4:43 PM, "Tom Barber" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Alright then chaps, >>> >>> After too much beer i've got home and checked out the source. It even >>> compiles without hacking stuff unlike OODT which is always nice. So, for >>> someone that doesn't use Gora or have any knowledge of the code base, if I >>> want to help hows best to get started? :) >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Tom >>> -- >>> *Tom Barber* | Technical Director >>> >>> meteorite bi >>> *T:* +44 20 8133 3730 >>> *W:* www.meteorite.bi | *Skype:* meteorite.consulting >>> *A:* Surrey Technology Centre, Surrey Research Park, Guildford, GU2 7YG, >>> UK >>> >> > > -- > *Tom Barber* | Technical Director > > meteorite bi > *T:* +44 20 8133 3730 > *W:* www.meteorite.bi | *Skype:* meteorite.consulting > *A:* Surrey Technology Centre, Surrey Research Park, Guildford, GU2 7YG, UK > -- *Lewis*
