How the GRASS Webserver and related infrastructure works written by M. Neteler, $Date$ Related Wiki documents: * http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_Migration_to_OSGeo == GRASS Web server == Maintainer: M. Neteler * http://grass.fbk.eu ** 3Ghz Dual Core Pentium, sponsored by FBK-irst (formerly ITC-irst), Trento, Italy ** Apache Server with PHP ** OS: RHEL4 with overnight security updates * http://grass.osgeo.org ** OSGeo infrastructure (http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/SAC) * http://www.grass-gis.org ** Apache rewrite engine to http://grass.osgeo.org * Web pages: ** hosted in the CVS server (developers can modify), downloaded to Web server via cronjob hourly ** 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 at grass.fbk.eu) ** tier-1 sites are mirrored via rsync to tier-2 mirrors (no hardcoded IPs) ** RSS feed: rss.xml file stored in CVS-Web ** TODO: To be migrated to OSGeo Drupal 12/2007 * 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 (http://mpa.fbk.eu/markus/grass63progman/): ** HTML: cronjob run Saturday morning Italian time ** PDF: currently broken since PDFs aren't created for unknown reasons in cronjob ** TODO: To be migrated to OSGeo server 12/2007 * 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 ** TODO: To be migrated to OSGeo server 12/2007 * GRASS 5 tutorial (generated Saturday morning Italian time): ** downloaded to Web server via cronjob ** built with docbook ** TODO: To be migrated to OSGeo server 12/2007 * 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.fbk.eu update * Search engine ** htdig runs once a week ** searchgrass.inc contains selective entries (CVS-Web) ** TODO: To be migrated to OSGeo server 12/2007 * FTP server ** no longer available due to security risk * Mailman mailing lists + Spam filtering (at lists.osgeo.org since 11/2007) ** Mailman is doing the job, only registered users can post ** messages from unsubscribed people is auto-discarded without notification ** the open "weblist" operates as: User -> weblist at grass itc.it -> /etc/aliases -> -> neteler.osgeo..gmail.com (for Spam filtering) -> FWD -> -> grass-web at lists osgeo.org * Backup of mailing lists (mbox files) ** manually done by MN and Intevation (into freegis.org FTP space) ** nightly backup at OSGeo.org * Web statistics ** Webalizer (http://grass.fbk.eu/webalizer/) runs daily as cronjob ** Sitemeter: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s24grassgis ** TODO: To be migrated to OSGeo server 12/2007 Summary: The system should run almost autonomous. == GRASS Mailing lists == Maintainer: Markus Neteler Available lists: * at FBK-irst (http://grass.fbk.eu/mailman/admin/): grass-commit-addons Mailing list to distribute GRASS Addons-SVN commits * at OSGeo.org (http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo): grass-abm Integration of GRASS with JAVA based agent based modeling (ABM) grass-announce GRASS announcements grass-commit Mailing list to distribute GRASS-CVS commits grass-dev GRASS GIS Development mailing list grass-es La lista de correo de GRASS GIS en espaņol grass-gui GRASSGUI mailing list grass-psc GRASS-PSC: GRASS Project Steering Committee grass-qa GRASS Quality Assessment and monitoring list grass-stats GRASS and statistical software grass-translations Translation of GRASS (i18N) grass-user GRASS user list grass-web GRASS website mailing list grass-windows winGRASS - Using GRASS on MS-Windows systems mailing list Notes: * grass-announce: * moderated by M. Neteler * has monthly password reminder disabled to avoid leakage into publicly archived lists * 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 (Google) 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.fbk.eu/mailman/listinfo/grass-qa Further notification/functionality test systems: * http://cia.vc/stats/project/GRASS ** posts into #grass IRC channel ** posts into #osgeo-commits IRC channel * http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/GRASS_TestSuite/?C=M;O=D