B.E.R.T. Wiki:About

This is an example WIKI, and this is the "about" page for the wiki.

It is being edited by Casey, but as there haven't been any users created yet it will appear to of been edited by my computers network address ( IP number )

nothing fancy yet!

technical bits

this wiki is running on www.badubadu.com, a server the Baker-Dunn family uses for 'family business.' The machine is hosted up in Oakland at an old-school service provider, Hurricane Electric. I have reserved the domain ButanoCanyon.org and would be happy to migrate all this over there if the Team decides that's worthwhile.

the software is

• WikiMedia, which what is under Wikipedia
• Mantis, which is a software bug tracking system
• mySQL, provided by the hosting service ( HE.NET )
• Apache, a standard web server.

The 'stack' model

• Apache - the URL arrives here. Apache fires off an access request ( ask Casey for this level of userid/password ) and sends a certificate thingy for encrypting the communication.
• if your url had '.../wiki' you are tossed over to th WikiMedia installation. This is lightly secured at this point, but I will be adding IDs as people join in.
  • when you go to the wiki it looks into the issue tracker ( Mantis ) and builds a small table of open issues.
• if you url ended with '.../mantis' you go into the Mantis installation. The Mantis installation doesn't really 'know' about the Wiki installation, but I am trying to get it to talk back. no biggie, any Wiki URL you stick in an issue note will work.
  • you will need an account for this area as well. I will be happy to ad IDs for people

customization

• basic stuff - accounts for the mySQL database, email, domain
• trickier stuff - Mantis was modified to remove references to software-development specific nomenclature. This involved a series of edits to
  • /config/custom_constants_inc.php
  • config_defaults.php
  • constant_inc.php
  • view.php
  • bug_update_page.php
  • bug_view_page.php ( I think! )

next steps

• some more IA to create wiki nav structure, and issue / project structure
• see what's going on with the mantis->wiki plug in; does it need project pages?
• tell people this exists, demos
• look into a real cert for www.badubadu.com
  • conversely, move this into www.butanocanyon.org, which is probably the right thing to do. this gets email accounts as well.