How the GRASS Webserver and related infrastructure works written by M. Neteler, $Date$ == GRASS Web server == Maintainer: M. Neteler * http://grass.itc.it * 3Ghz Dual Core Pentium, sponsored by ITC-irst, Trento, Italy * Apache Server with PHP * OS: RHEL4 with overnight security updates * Web pages: ** hosted in the CVS server (developers can modify), downloaded to Web server via cronjob every three hours ** written in simple PHP/HTML (just include() statement for menus) ** mirrored to selected tier-1 sites via rsync (hardcoded IPs to avoid that too many sites connect) ** tier-1 sites are mirrored via rsync to tier-2 mirrors (no hardcoded IPs) ** RSS feed: rss.xml file stored in CVS-Web * Weekly snapshots (generated Saturday morning Italian time): ** Source code tarball of CVS HEAD ** Linux binary snapshot is compiled *** GRASS is compiled with GDAL, PROJ, SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, FFTW, C++ support *** binary tar.gz is moved into Web space * GRASS user manual HTML: ** generated during compilation of weekly Linux binary snapshot * GRASS programmer's manual: ** HTML: job manually run by M Neteler from time to time (not on grass.itc.it) ** PDF: currently broken since PDFs aren't created for unknown reasons in cronjob * i18N translation statistics: ** generated during compilation of Linux binary snapshot, stats of (cd locale; make) are extracted into text file ** text file parsed by PHP page and shown as table * GRASS 5 tutorial (generated Saturday morning Italian time): ** downloaded to Web server via cronjob ** built with docbook * GRASS user map ** GDF is creating png output via mapserver ** fetched every three hours via cronjob from http://mapserver.gdf-hannover.de/tmp/ * GRASS-Mapserver demo ** currently broken after grass.itc.it update * Search engine ** htdig runs once a week ** searchgrass.inc contains selective entries (CVS-Web) * FTP server ** no longer available due to security risk * Mailman mailing lists + Spam filtering ** Mailman is doing the job, only registered users can post ** each incoming email first passes 'bogofilter', then a set of handwritten procmail rules filter standard rubbish ** 'bogofilter' is autotrained ** the few spams which arrive through the bugtracker or into the open 'weblist' are manually added to /var/mail/bogofilter-train-as-spam folder ** bogofilter learn script which reads /var/mail/bogofilter-train-as-spam and /var/mail/bogofilter-train-as-ham runs every night via cronjob * Backup of mailing lists (mbox files) ** manually done by MN and Intevation (into freegis.org FTP space) * Web statistics ** Webalizer (http://grass.itc.it/webalizer/) runs daily as cronjob ** Sitemeter: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s24grassgis Summary: The system should run almost autonomous. == GRASS Mailing lists == Maintainer: Markus Neteler Available lists: grass-abm Integration of GRASS with JAVA based agent based modeling (ABM) grass-announce GRASS announcements (moderated by M. Neteler) grass-commit Mailing list to distribute GRASS-CVS commits (limited posters) grass-dev GRASS GIS Development mailing list grass-qa GRASS Quality Assessment and monitoring list (limited posters) grass-psc GRASS-PSC (Project Steering Committee) list grassgui GRASSGUI mailing list grassuser GRASS user list nvizlist List to discuss GRASS/NVIZ visualization tools sqlgrass GRASS and SQL support statsgrass GRASS and statistical software translations Translation of GRASS (i18N) weblist GRASS website mailing list winGRASS winGRASS - Using GRASS on MS-Windows systems mailing list Notes: * The old user list at Baylor university, Texas, USA is still functional. The new grassuser list at ITC-irst is subscribed at Baylor to transport messages posted there to the new list. * grass-announce: * posts to 'announce AT grass.osgeo.org'. The latter is moderated by M. Neteler * has monthly password reminder disabled to avoid leakage into publicly archived lists such as 'announce AT grass.osgeo.org' * grass-qa is receiving posts from the GRASS Quality Control System at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. Not open for other postings. * grass-commit is receiving posts from the GRASS CVS server at intevation.de. Not open for other postings. * weblist is an open list (posting without subscription possible) with spam filter == GRASS Wiki == Maintainer: Markus Neteler * http://grass.gdf-hannover.de * Mediawiki, sponsored by GDF Hannover, Germany * requires registration to keep spammers out Summary: The system should run almost autonomous. An eye must be be kept on people trying to spam the site == GRASS IRC == Channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/grass Web based client: http://irc.telascience.org/ * channel owner: Alessandro Frigeri ("geoalf") * quasi guru: Markus Neteler ("markusN") * further operators: - Jachym ("jachym") - Luca ("doktoreas") - Soeren ("huhabla") - Brad ("bdouglas") == GRASS Source code repository == Maintainer: Bernhard Reiter, Jan-Oliver Wagner * intevation.de * CVS, sponsored by Intevation GmbH, Germany == GRASS Bugtracker == Maintainer: Bernhard Reiter, Jan-Oliver Wagner (gforce) Maciej Sieczka (bugs generally), with help from - Jachym Cepicky - code patches, - Scott Mitchell - website patches, - Martin Landa - doc patches Old bugtracker (Dec 2000 - Dec 2006): * https://intevation.de/rt/webrt?q_queue=grass * webRT, sponsored by Intevation GmbH, Germany * spamassasin spamfilter locally, bogofilter at grass-dev list * reports are directly sent to GRASS Developers mailing list for notification New bugtracker (Jan 2007 - today): * http://wald.intevation.org/tracker/?group_id=21 * gforce, sponsored by Intevation GmbH, Germany * spamassasin spamfilter locally, bogofilter at grass-dev list * needs 'noreply*wald.intevation.org' to be enabled as alias in Mailman == GRASS Quality Control == Maintainer: Giulio Antoniol * http://web.soccerlab.polymtl.ca/grass-evolution/grass-browsers/grass-index-en.html implemented and sponsored by Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada * Realtime analysis is sent to: http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-qa Further notification/functionality test systems: * http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/GRASS * http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/GRASS_TestSuite/?C=M;O=D