Re: [Webical-developers] release 0.2?

[Ivo v. D. <ivo...@gm...>]

Btw. Is there a demo deploy planned for today? I would love to see Sjoerds
design and the lastminute enhancements I made to come online.

On 9/14/07, Ivo van Dongen <ivo...@gm...> wrote:
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> On 9/14/07, Mattijs Hoitink <ma...@fu...> wrote:
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> >  The bootstrap is only meant for development purposes. This should not
> > be included in  the release. A maven profile should be created specifically
> > for the releases, here these kinds of issues can be addressed (by not
> > including the bootstrap spring configuration)
> >
> > I will strip the bootstrap from the release as it is not needed. I
> > already created a build target "release" that excludes it. See last commit.
> >
> >  2. The /app/configuration URL is protected by admin:admin u:p.
> > > - how about telling the installer to change those default values?
> >
> >
> > This is a side effect of the  bootstrap bean. If the bootstrap bean is
> > not included the firstrunwizard  is shown and the administrator must fill in
> > those details himself.
> >
> > This is the correct way to do it i think.
> >
> >
> > 3. Split the README authentication section in:
> > > - MySQL container managed
> > > - LDAP container managed (only refer to the Webical wiki, since this
> > > probably won't be the most used config. please ask Thijs to place his
> > > notes there)
> > >
> >  The readme assuemes you are using MySQL for authentication. Altering
> > the authentication method is covered by comments in the webical.xmlfile.
> >
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> Did I mis  something? What is the webical.xml file?
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>  4. Split up the README database section in:
> > > - webical db config, with a webical-bootstrap.sql
> > > - if applicable: webical auth config, with a webical-auth.sql (by
> > > default use the same database as webical db.
> > >
> > >   The database tables are generated by webical itself if they don't
> > exist, so a webical-bootstrap.sql is not needed. The user only needs to
> > create authentication tables if he/she wants to use MySQL as authentication
> > for Tomcat. The readme assumes this is so, so the user has to execute
> > auth_setup.sql.
> > Changing the authentication method for tomcat is specified in the readme
> > and the webical.xml file.
> >
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> Hmm, don't know if this is the preferred way. I checked the current config
> and the  SessionFactory is set to create the database indeed. This does mean
> that with every redeploy all data is lost... I don't think this will be
> appreciated to much :)
>
> 5. Are the README, webical.xml, and *.sql in subversion? if not, please
> > > put them there.
> > >
> >  I will create a docs directory to put documentation in.
> >
> >
> > > 6. The default u/p for accessing (webical:webical) the database are
> > > not
> > > mentioned in te README. Please mention what u/p you assume, and what
> > > rights to the database it should have.
> > >
> >  Done. The readme assumes you have a database 'webical' at localhost,
> > with webical/webical as u/p
> >
> >  Do you think we should ship with default u/p/dbname values or should
> > > everything be explicitly filled out?
> > >
> >  I think shipping with a default will be easier. With the defaults, the
> > application can be deployed without editing any files.
> > The readme mentions that it is possible to edit the u/p values. What
> > parameters can be changed is covered by the files itself.
> >
>
> Like we talked about; I don't think this is a good idea. It's indeed
> simpler for first-time usage, but this does pose a nice security hole.
> You'll see that people are not inclined to changed the defaults after
> everything is setup and this leaves a lot of webical instances (assuming
> interest will pick up :)) with a default user/password...
>
>
> cheers,
> >
> > mattijs
> >
> >
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