Dogfood servers now up

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

The bleeding edge server code is now up at:

   http://dogfood-online.gnome.org:9080/

And the old skin:

   http://dogfood.mugshot.org:9080/

The two share the same backend app. If you create an account on one the 
same account will be on the other. For now, if you go to a page on 
dogfood-online.gnome.org that hasn't been "GNOME-ified" then you will 
get the Mugshot page instead, which is weird, and not the long-term idea.

This server is a "test instance" so we can eat our own dogfood, and any 
data on it may be nuked, accidentally leaked due to bugs in the code, 
etc. Generally we deploy to dogfood straight from SVN latest with no 
testing. Please adjust your expectations and behavior accordingly. 
Reporting bugs is good though, that's the point even.

The GNOME mode does NOT do anything useful yet and the account page 
still has Mugshot stuff on there. I'm just putting it on d-d-l in the 
spirit of working in public.

I've done a fair bit of behind the scenes work to allow the server to 
have two "skins" and that's the main thing being demo'd/tested here.

What we CAN do right now: if you want to store something on the web to 
be used by your app, you can test it against this dogfood server. If you 
need the ability to store something new, some of the Mugshot crew could 
generally add that ability in a matter of an hour or two, just ask.

Some future items:

 - move mugshot.org/applications to be online.gnome.org/applications
 - more cleanup on the GNOME /account page as we figure out what makes
   sense
 - start using the site to enhance apps, which will mean lots of
   client-side work

It isn't clear the online.gnome.org stuff will ever have lots of web 
pages, though it could, it may just be a place to create/edit an account 
and then the desktop talks to online.gnome.org as a backend, via xmpp 
and http APIs. I don't know.

On the legal front: for now the .gnome.org mode uses the Mugshot privacy 
policy and terms of use. As previously discussed, we want to see a "free 
terms of use"/"open service definition" thing and use that instead. But 
for now we need some kind of policy so we've just left what we had for 
Mugshot.

Anyway, the overall idea here is a new resource for the GNOME community 
- the ability to have part of your app on the server side, without 
having to deal with obtaining hosting, writing an account system, 
developing terms of use, scaling up, and all kinds of other overhead.

If you want to hack on the server, see:

  http://developer.mugshot.org/wiki/Server_Development_Setup

But again, if you just want a simple new page or new data storage, talk 
to the Mugshot team and we can probably add it to the server pretty 
easily for you.

Havoc