[BioSQL-l] database loading test server (was: BioSQL bug in bugzilla)

[Erik Rijkers]

Maybe we can use some ideas from the way the PostgreSQL
project has setup a distributed buildfarm (conceived by
Andrew Dunstan, I think):

  see: http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/

it lets members of the community use a standardized setup
for building postgresql on their own machines and
automates all steps involved.

I know the projects and the communities are different, but
the general idea to have a standard process to set up
machines for whomever wants to dedicate some hardware and
time seems like a good idea.


Erik Rijkers

On Sun, March 2, 2008 20:20, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> On Mar 2, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Erik Rijkers wrote:
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>> What is really needed of course is a place to run these
>> loading scrips continually against any appearing new
>> versions of parsable text, and against the different
>> database backends.
>
> very true indeed.
>
>>
>> Does that already happen somewhere?
>>
>> Should we consider such a bioperl buildfarm / loadfarm?
>>
>> (I might be able to help with any postgres loading
>> tests.)
>
>
> Coincidentally we have been batting around the idea to
> have a OBF
> machine dedicated to serve for testing and
> proof-of-concept
> demonstrations of OBF projects. Indeed one of the services
> we had
> thought about setting up is a BioSQL database, and it's
> reassuring to
> hear independently that that would be useful.
>
> 	-hilmar
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