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[Jasna Benčić <jasna493@xxxxxxxxx>]

That was fast and great :)

Thank you Rafał....When I'll have next round of questions I'll send it
here.. I have to learn somehow...

Thanks again

2012/12/16 Rafał Cieślak <rafalcieslak256@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Hello Jasna,
>
> Here goes my explanation. If anyone else has something to add, you are
> welcome to!
>
> Some accomplishments require to be validated by an external server.
> You won't get them just once the daemon that runs on your desktop
> detects a trophy, they are sent to a validation server, which signs
> them only if you actually deserve them. At this moment, we have two
> validation servers in use, we call them 'staging' and 'production'
> servers. Both are run on Jono's machine. The 'production' server is
> the one used by Accomplishments by default, it's the one that uses
> stable releases of accomplishment collections etc, so most users have
> their trophies signed by this one. The 'staging' server is the one
> that we use for testing new features, and it's meant to be used only
> by developers and testers.
>
> Currently we are moving these servers to Canonical infrastructure. So
> instead of being run on a server owned by Jono, they will run on a
> machine that is maintained by Canonical. You will know that it's done
> once we start boasting about trophies.ubuntu.com domain, which soon
> should feature an online trophies gallery, synchronised with these
> validation servers. And that's the process of deployment: we are
> deploying our services on Canonical servers.
> Canonical IS - that's the team responsible for managing Canonical
> infrastructure, servers etc. We are cooperating with them currently a
> lot, as they are the ones who can put our servers on Canonical
> machines.
>
>   UCA = Ubuntu Community Accomplishments collection.
> It's one of common abbreviations we use. Others you may find are:
>   UDA = Ubuntu Desktop Accomplishments collection
>   accom, accomp, acc = accomplishment
>   opp = oppotunity (an accomplishment that wasn't yet awarded)
>
> I realise this may be confusing at first sight, but I hope it's now clear.
>
> Rafał Cieślak
>
> 2012/12/16 Jasna Benčić <jasna493@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi to everyone,
> >
> > This week was the meeting and it was my first meeting with you. It was
> great
> > and I realized that there is a lot of things for me to catch up with.
> >
> > As I promised to Rafal I have some questions.. I'm scrolling through
> meeting
> > logs and that how questions will go... You can answer when you will have
> > time... As I already wrote I can't be much of a help still ... I'm
> loaded on
> > other Ubuntu projects and my personal obligations.
> >
> > Sorry if questions will be silly :) I'm a total noob at this..
> >
> > So here  I go...
> >
> > Server deployment
> >
> > Where are those servers, how many servers are there?
> >
> > How do you deploy, validate, test?
> >
> > What do staging and production servers present, I mean what is their
> > function?
> >
> > What is IS?
> >
> > What is UCA?
> >
> > That's it for now,
> >
> > Thank you for your answers,
> >
> > J.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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