[kde-services-devel] Getting Started with a Server

[David Solbach]

Hi Josef,

Thanks for your answer. 

> Which links are broken?
If you go to http://ghns.freedesktop.org/hotstuff/ the download and the 
homepage link on the right side are broken.

> course, if you plan something big, a dedicated installation would be the
> way to go. Any such setup can also use other public SVNs, we recently
> discussed this in the context of Amarok if you want to crawl the list
> archives.
Yes, actually I already host the plasma, phonon and solid project websites. I 
have a server with some bandwidth (1tb/month, possibly more, 100mbit uplink), 
good backup and support, and I talked shortly to jpwhiting and fregl on 
#plasma about the possibility of hosting a GHNS Server maybe even for real 
usage not just for testing.

I already found the 0.9.2 download of the scripts. That is the current state 
of the art? (I haven't looked at it yet) Are there any extra tricks I have to 
know before giving it a try?

David

PS: which amarok list exactly? so I yould catch up a bit..



Am Montag 03 März 2008 09:15:51 schrieb Josef Spillner:
> Hello,
>
> Am Sonntag 02 März 2008 22:46:46 schrieb David Solbach:
> > I want to set up a test server for GHNS (Maybe with DXS support). I read
> > the specification at http://ghns.freedesktop.org/spec/ghns-spec.html and
> > the information on the website. Unfortunately some links are broken, and
> > I couldn't download any server side software to play with.
>
> Which links are broken?
> The server software can be downloaded from either:
> 	http://kstuff.org/projects/downloads/hotstuff-0.9.2.tar.gz
> or:
> 	svn://kstuff.org/kstuffsvn/trunk/hotstuff
>
> > Can someone give me a short update on the status of GHNS (and it's
> > (planned) usage in the KDE 4 series in particular)? It seems I could help
> > some people by setting up a server for it. So that's basically what I
> > want to do.
>
> GHNS usage in KDE increases and the client-side code has seen a lot of
> changes for improved performance and cache handling. There are still some
> issues (re)appearing such as no indication if there's a network problem,
> but given that a lot of content on the desktop depends on web services
> nowadays (e.g. plasma applets), this could now be handled in a more generic
> way, at least from what I figured out during the weekend :)
> This especially affects potentially constantly updating widgets such as
> KNewStuff and the local transport plasma widget (plasma_dvb).
>
> There's a server running on data.kstuff.org which can be used to set up a
> GHNS repository and play around with it. It's only partially automated at
> the moment in that I need to give out SVN/upload accounts for it manually,
> but it saves the hassle of installing and configuring the software. Of
> course, if you plan something big, a dedicated installation would be the
> way to go. Any such setup can also use other public SVNs, we recently
> discussed this in the context of Amarok if you want to crawl the list
> archives.
>
> Josef