On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:54 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If somebody from JH decides to explain how every point above is >> slightly wrong, that would be nice, since I can't imagine that they >> aren't wrong! > > > Actually, I don't see any major errors in there :)
Thanks for adding additional clarifications! > > Just to add some detail, the basic design of JH is: out of the box, assume: > > 1. local Unix auth (PAM) > > 2. for each authenticated user, you start their notebook as a local > subprocess. > > That makes it very easy to run it in your typical 'university research > group' environment, where there's some NFS server under a desk a beefy > shared unix box where the group members all SSH in. > > But both #1 and #2 above are separately customizable. What Jess did was to > replace #1 with Github auth, and #2 with a fairly sophisticated Docker setup > (she ended up contributing fixes to Docker Swarm just as it was released). > > With said customizations, the same basic architecture should be usable in > some other scenarios, just as Jess has demonstrated. > > JH doesn't have out of the box any of the many sophisticated features that > SMC has, nor is most of that stuff on our roadmap. Lots of what William has > done there is needed to provide a robust, 24/7 service with (hopefully :) > paying customers, and we're not doing any of that. I do hope that SMC will > be very successful, and we do talk to William every time we have a chance to > share ideas, brainstorm, etc. The feeling is very mutual. My dream would be that SMI = (SageMath, Inc.) is very successful and can be one of JH's industry partners, and that SMI can financially (and otherwise) help to support JH development. William P.S. speaking of github auth, I happened to add support for Github auth (and Google, Facebook) to SMC a few days ago, in case that's interesting to anybody, look at https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc-public/blob/835966ac41f75ae26247aa12ff49c482f0aa2180/hub.coffee#L347 There have now been 403 links between an auth provider and SMC since I made this live about 3 days ago, with 31 facebook, 50 github, and 322 google, which is perhaps interesting. > > Cheers > > f > -- > Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) > fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists only (I ignore this when swamped!) > fernando.perez-at-berkeley: contact me here for any direct mail > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
