Slicer3:Web Presence

Overview

Infrastructure work to support a uniform Slicer web presence. Work building on AHM 2006 Project Slicer3 Web Presence

Requirements:

• ability to report number of unique Slicer binaries downloaded per month and per grant year, per release version, as well as aggregate numbers
• record user information as they agree to abide by the Slicer license agreement
• integrated download page that will provide links to binary Slicer packages, for nightly builds, developer snapshots, and official releases

Counting Downloads

Needed for grant reporting.

Current page: [to be found]

Parse the apache download logs directly or use multiple configuration files for Webalizer?

License Agreement

Needed for grant reporting.

Current page: [1]

The original license form was written as an HTML form that submitted data to a perl script that would verify the form entries and then write the user information to a series of flat files, one per month.

The move to use Wiki2Web for the Slicer web pages complicates the issue, as the form has to be translated into a MediaWiki page that will translate to the final web page and still work. From Nicole 3 Aug 2007:

 Marianna and I were working on the Slicer License form this afternoon, trying to get it working within the wiki to web framework, and  
 we've hit a major roadblock.
 Mediawiki isn't rendering the html form tag, it's printing it out as text.
 From looking at
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Inputbox
 it seems like we could install an extension to get certain pre-defined input boxes, but
 a) we can't get the example to work (following the installation instructions)
 b) once we get the example to work, a new extension will have to be written in PHP to support the license form.

Download Page

Current page: http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Download/

Needs to be integrated into the Wiki2Web framework in such a way that supports automatic uploads from nightly builds, developer snapshot uploads, as well as automatic downloads of Windows prebuilt binary sub-packages during the building of Slicer.

From Andy 4 Jun 2007:

 You could also create a MediaWiki extension for downloading files.
 Then you can use W2W to write text around the page, but use the extension to give you the list of files.

Team Members

• Nicole Aucoin
• Zack Galbreath
• SPL system administrators