Re: [Treebase-devel] TreeBASE hosting at Naturalis

[Hilmar L. <hl...@ne...>]

On 10/23/14, 5:19 AM, Rutger Vos wrote:
> - the content, i.e. editing and reviewing submissions (presumably, they
> have nothing to do with that)

Congruent with NESCent hosting.

> - the code, i.e. bug fixes and feature additions (again, they don't plan
> to do anything with that)

Mostly ditto. However, TreeBASE still stores passwords in the clear, which
is a major security flaw and vulnerability. There may be others waiting to
be discovered. The code, to the extent I know, has never been
security-audited. There is currently apparently zero funding for code
maintenance, and so time will only reveal more security issues, not less,
including issues caused by reliance on end-of-support versions of Java,
Tomcat, etc.

> - testing, i.e. do bug fixes and enhancements work as intended on the
> staging server (presumably this is shared, e.g. they deploy, others test &
> verify)

Congruent with NESCent hosting, except that we redeploy staging and testing
automatically upon commits.

> - system/db administration, i.e. checking performance and tuning it (to
> the extent that this doesn't involve code modifications they would do this)

Again, this would be congruent with NESCent hosting.

  -hilmar

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