[yt-dev] yt hub

[Matthew Turk]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the update, Kacper.  I guess I didn't realize it was just a
> man-hour thing.

It definitely is.  We had to take it down and migrate it because of
funds (and it was to the tune of a couple hundred a month, but that
could come way down), but we haven't had the opportunity to bring it
up because it will take time and effort to make it do what we want it
to do.

These aspects of it were around before:

 * Answer tests -> this has been switched over, as Kacper noted
 * Project indexing -> Britton's going to move this to a repository system
 * Image and notebook sharing -> This will probably use SEEDME, but
it's a person-hour thing
 * Data widgets -> These were hardly used, but eventually we will try
to bring them back up

If anybody wants to try to help out, that would be great.  I'm not
going to be able to work on this for some time.  It'll require some
web work, some infrastructure management, and probably some patience!

-Matt

>
> Cameron
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius.kk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 07/17/2014 07:28 AM, Cameron Hummels wrote:
>> > Hey everyone,
>> >
>> > Is there a timeline for the yt hub coming back up?  I believe the hold
>> > up
>> > had been the fee of hosting the hub, which I think was being covered by
>> > Matt's personal funds.  Is there ever any hope of getting some dedicated
>> > funds to support this in the future?  If not, I'm happy to chip in some
>> > money to help this get back up.  It seemed like a great resource both
>> > for
>> > hosting datasets and projects tangentially related to yt.  Also, I think
>> > it
>> > was the location of the enzo test gold standard, right?
>> >
>> > Anyway, I just wanted to see if there was a timeline for it coming back
>> > or
>> > if was out for the foreseeable future, or if we could help.
>> >
>> > Cameron
>>
>> Hi Cameron,
>> I think at this point all the required infrastructure is available, so
>> it's not a matter of funds, but rather time. The original hub code needs
>> to be rewritten in some parts to fit into new environment.
>>
>> Some of this work has been already done, e.g. Matt ported answer tests'
>> storage to rackspace[1], there's http://nbviewer.yt-project.org running.
>>
>> Additionally, there's a very interesting project that we are planning to
>> use wrt datasets sharing: seedme.org. I'm going to adapt existing
>> commandline client in order to make 'yt upload_notebook' work again.
>> However, my time is very limited at the moment and I don't expect it to
>> change before September.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kacper
>>
>> [1] https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/pull-request/832
>>
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