[JoPP-Public] request for staging area and report on progress

Thu May 22 15:15:59 CEST 2014

hello joppers,

we had a meeting yesterday about the upcoming special issue on
shared machine shops.

we are a bit behind schedule and as you know we have a hard
deadline because we want to release the issue in time with fab10
[0]. the plan is to produce a hardcopy version of the journal and
have a little release event during that gathering. we are
currently looking for organisations to pay for the costs.

**meanwhile, we need some technical help in order to smooth the
production process of the electronic journal.**

we started to think about how to get the articles onto the
website and we arrived to the conclusion that we need a "staging"
website, which looks like the original one but it is not public,
so we can make mistakes and see how the release would look like
before migrating the content to the production site. this is
quite common practice in web development.

therefore, the question is if somebody could set up a clone of
the current website for us, or at least provide us with the
hosting account details, the codebase and the database of the
current website. if somebody could do it for us it would be
supercool because we are short on time. but if not, we can also
do it ourselves provided that we get the resources mentioned
above.

of course a staging website would be a contribution to the
existing jopp infrastructure and it could be used by future
editors to make a more smooth update when they are working on a
new issue.

we thought about the update process like this:

* we plan to make the updates on the staging site
* then ask for a backup of the live site to be made
* then copy/paste the new entries to the live site
+ here have tech stand-by if roll-back needed!!!
* then check the results and if not good revert
* eventually, be happy

the timeline for this would look like this:

* late May: get codebase, database, hosting details
* early June: install and configure staging site
* June 20th: staging site content upload starts
* June 27th: migrating content to live site
* July 2nd or in the worst case July 4th: release!!!

is there somebody in particular we should be communicating with
about this?

finally, we would of course need accounts on the website. i
already have one and it works (thanks!), but my co-editor peter
troxler would also need one. his email is trox at fabfolk.com

thanks for your consideration,

your editors.

[0] http://fab10.org/

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