[BlueOnyx:26752] Re: 5211R: GUI development: Beta-Test available!

[Michael Stauber]

Hi all,

Yesterday I said:

> I'm happy to announce that the development of the new GUI for BlueOnyx 
> 5211R is now finished. \o/
I just built the RPMs for BlueOnyx 5211R with the new GUI and 530 
updated RPMs have been released to the [BlueOnyx-5209R-Testing] YUM 
repository.

If you have a spare BlueOnyx 5211R and want to test the new GUI 
yourself? Then please do so.


How to install the Updates:
===========================

Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/BlueOnyx.repo on your BlueOnyx 5211R and find this 
section at the bottom:

[BlueOnyx-5209R-Testing]

One of the lines below that section has this:

enabled=0

Change it to this:

enabled=1

Save the changes and then run:

yum clean all
yum update -y

That will perform the upgrade of BlueOnyx to the new GUI. In the course 
of this around 500 RPMs get updated, several new dependencies get 
installed and the deprecated module base-istat will get removed.

Once the YUM update is done you may login to the GUI at the usual URL.

The theme will have automatically switched to the new "Elmer" and 2FA 
access for GUI is not yet enabled until you turn it on yourself.


Debugging:
===========

If you run into any "Server Errors", please activate debugging mode:

https://www.blueonyx.it/blueonyx-5211r-debugging

Then visit the GUI page again that gave you an error and see what the 
debugging screen reports and let us know about that.

Additional debugging can be activated by running:

touch /etc/DEBUG

This creates the empty file /etc/DEBUG and when that file is present, 
the logfile /var/log/gui-debug.log will contain way more information 
that just who visited what GUI page. This can also be helpful for debugging.


How and where to report issues:
================================

Any way is fine. Shoot me an email, post to the list or use the built in 
"Bug Report" form under "Software Updates" / "Support" / "Bugreport".


Is this ready for production?
==============================

So far I haven't found any real show stoppers once I got past the first 
three minor post-release glitches. And fixes for them are now in the YUM 
repository.

But it's too early to tell for sure. This needs some more testing on 
more diverse servers than I have at hand myself.

If you're feeling lucky and assume the risk? Then you can install this 
on a production server. Like said: There still MAY be issues (there 
probably are), but I'll fix them as fast as I am finding them or are 
made aware of them.

Anyway: Let me know what you think.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber