[yt-dev] yt hub

Sam Skillman samskillman at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 07:39:28 PDT 2014


I'll just mention that the enzo tests are set up such that having a public
gold standard is not really a priority. It's best to just create a local
gold standard and test against that.


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> >
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> > University of Arizona
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